At 10:33 PM -0500 10/28/02, John Halle wrote:
>I thought I'd let you know about the anti-war resolution I passed
>through the board here. I believe it may be the first of any
>largish East Coast city. (Do you know otherwise.)
>
>You'll see the resolution (attached) is pretty boiler-plate stuff.
>But I suppose what is most significant is the margin it passed by-
>24 to 2. Of course, many of those voting in favor were dragged
>kicking and screaming into supporting it (this is Lieberman's home
>city, after all) but they couldn't take the risk that we would use
>the vote against them-and they knew that we would. Also, the
>Democrats would never have raised this on their own. I was the sole
>sponsor of the resolution-no Dem wanted to co-sponsor it.
>
>Here's a link to a press release we issued.
>
>http://www.ctgreens.org/press/press_10_22_02.html
>
>Here's a front page article in the Yale paper.
>
>http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=20288
>
>And a minimal item on the back page of the NH Reg (a pretty
>blatant, and uncharacteristic, example of Reg censorship, I suspect).
>
>http://www.newhavenregister.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=5786545&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=7573&rfi=8
>