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- From: gerber@boulder.parcplace.com (Andrew Gerber)
- Subject: Re: Minds Change *or* How to Mislead With Numbers
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- References: <1993Jan3.201304.3597@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 02:08:05 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.201304.3597@athena.mit.edu> tcarlin@athena.mit.edu (Thomas B Carlin) writes:
- >============================================
- >Andy Gerber writes:
- >
- >>>A new Denver Post/News 4 Poll shows there's a backlash in
- >>>Colorado to the growing national boycott of the state over
- >>>Amendment 2, the citizen intiative that barred laws
- >>>protecting gays.
- >
- >>>People are more angry than ahamed, and they don't think a
- >>>repeal effort would succeed.
- >
- >(1) This is very much the EXACT same reaction the Arizona had
- > to the boycott of that state. Surprise, surprise,
- > they changed their minds.
- > ^^^^^^^
- >(2) Hunger is a great motivator.
- >
- >============================================
- >
- >Boycott CO, and Ignore the Auntie Toms!!!
- >
- >
- >============================================
- >
- >Tom - "I ain't nobody's Aunt" - Carlin
-
- I did not write the above text. It's from the Denver Post article.
-
- I think education will do more to sway Colorado voters than a boycott.
- Only the poor will go hungry, and they don't vote much. Most
- Coloradans are tired of hyper-development anyway; a slowdown will be
- welcome. This has been said before: Colorado is too beautiful a state
- to leave to the straights.
-
- Andy (who's an uncle twice over)
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