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- From: kguinn@diana.cair.du.edu (Kip J. Guinn)
- Subject: Re: Don't boycott all of Colorado
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 23:42:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.195330.10398@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> taylorje@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (TAYLOR JASON EDMOND) writes:
- > I read an article the other day in the Boulder Daily Camera that explained
- >how the NATIONAL family values people are moving (or have moved) their base
- >of operations to Colorado Springs, CO. What a coincidence that the sponsors
- >of amendment 2 are based in C Springs as well!
- > So all those who are advocating a total boycott on Colorado, especially
- >having seen that Boulder, Denver, and just about every other major population
- >center voted it down, should consider that its people from OTHER parts of
- >the country that got the darn thing passed here, not the locals.
-
-
- This is an important point about citizen refernedums: you must be very
- careful as who is backing/supporting the effort to get the amendments
- on the ballot, and (especially), who is footing the bill for advertisements,
- etc. during the campaign.
-
- For example, I found it very interesting that one of the gambling amendments,
- No. 3, which would have permitted certain mountain towns to vote on
- gambling, was bankrolled almost entirely (to the tune of $300,000 +) by
- a Canadian businessman who, "surprisingly", owned casinos in Black Hawk
- and Cripple Creek. Not hard to guess why he was for the amendment.
- Not hard to see why we saw so TV ads saying "Vote Yes on 3"--I wonder
- how much money those towns could have raised on their own.
-
- Amendment 2 was funded, from the start, from religious groups in Colorado
- Springs (and elsewhere). I was against almost immediately--and not
- because it was discriminatory (although that was part of it--although
- I _do_ wonder whether morality and personal actions can be legislated),
- but the main reason was because it was clearly an effort by a certain
- religion to tell me how to live and act toward others.
-
- I like making up my own mind.
-
- Kip
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