Fwd: Malathion Man: Giuliani poisons NY to look decisive

Joseph S. Barrera III joe at barrera.org
Sat Sep 11 12:21:52 PDT 1999



> Jerry Brown's popularity plummeted in part because of the spraying of
> Malathion against the Mediterranian fruit fly.
>
> In a sense, it is a good thing that urban people learn about
> the dangers of pesticides. Perhaps, Rudy will make a positive
> contribution to the anti-toxic movement.

I thought the primary danger from the Malathion was to car paint jobs? Certainly that's a guaranteed way of ticking off Californians, namely putting sticky corrosive ugly brown polka-dots all over their cars. But in NYC it's all taxis, right? So will anyone care?

- Joe :-)



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