Nasty California Imports

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Feb 17 07:45:14 PST 1999


frances bolton wrote:


> As soon as we here in Florida elected a Republican gov (Jeb!) to go with
>our Republican leg., Ward Connerly came down to talk to the powers-that-be
>about ending affirmative action.
>
>I read in today's paper:
>
>"Ward Connerly is having second thoughts about leading a campaign against
>racial preferences in Florida." To quote Connerly,"If I were to make the
>decision today, it would probably be no. It has nothing to do with whether
>or not we could win, but whether we thing this state wants our attention
>[good example of Talmudic reasoning here] and resources rather than others
>that would be less troublesome." Speaking of Jeb! and the state repub.
>party, Connerly said,. "I'm getting a little bit stronger 'no's' from
>these dudes than I expected."
>
>Dudes?

Hey, Ward is down with the people!

It's interesting that Connerly is retreating from Florida. Is this another sign, along with the impeachment failure, that the right-wing culture warriors are on the ropes? In a world starved for good news, is this some?

Doug



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