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- From: bwood@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bill)
- Subject: Re: Colorado
- Message-ID: <17NOV199211502492@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:50:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.145855.15125@unet.net.com>, linda@wendy.net.com (Linda Hill) writes...
- >In article <6964@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil> grre@hp850.mbari.org (Rebecca Gross) writes:
- >>I would like to know if anyone on the net is from Colorado. If so, I
- >>would like information about living there. I am getting desperate for
- >>information. Only thing I've heard is that it is a beautiful state.
- >>
- >>I basically would like information on jobs, wages, cost of living,
- >>weather year round, etc.
- >>
- >>Please e-mail me at grre@mbari.org
- >
- >What about the political climate of the state? I obviously don't
- >know what your politics are, but you don't appear to have heard
- >news about Colorado. From an email group for women in computer
- >science that I read:
- >
- >>As many of you probably know, on Tuesday, Colorado voted in an
- >>ammendenment to their state constitution which revokes any existing
- >>gay/lesbian/bisexual civil rights legislation and prohibits the
- >>drafting of any new legislation.
- >
- >>This is a repressive, regressive win for a right wing fascist-like
- >>organization inappropriately self-named Colorado Family Values (CFV).
- >>It is my understanding that they have no intention of stopping their
- >>hate campaign here; they intented to push for legislation with a
- >>stronger discriminatory flavor here in Colorado and surrounding states.
- >
- >So if you like the idea of moving to a state who's citizens support
- >such legislature, by all means move to Colorado. Personally, I
- >wouldn't want to live in a state which isn't interested in protecting
- >the civil rights of _all_ of its residents.
- >--
- >Linda V. Hill Email: linda@net.com
- >Network Equipment Technologies Phone: (415) 780-5785
- >800 Saginaw Drive, 23.2.3 Fax: (415) 780-5001
- >Redwood City, CA 94063
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- I firmly agree. At first I wondered why this was posted here. I'm
- glas it was. For the same reason I wouldn't go to S. Africa, I also
- wouldn't go to Colorado. They wouldn't want me anyway...or my
- investment portfolio...$$$...!
-