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- From: bcapps@agora.rain.com (Brent Capps)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Amendment 2 passes
- Message-ID: <BxnrEC.FH@agora.rain.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 14:10:59 GMT
- References: <7660107@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> <1992Nov4.163229.16197@psych.toronto.edu> <Bx9HKK.4LK@fig.citib.com> <1992Nov12.074225.26343@flood.com>
- Organization: Open Communications Forum
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- tom@flood.com (Tom Chatt) writes:
-
- >Do you feel more welcome in Utah? Or were you thinking of
- >going to Mt. Bachelor in Oregon to celebrate the defeat of
- >the odious Prop 9? Speaking from ignorance about the local
- >specifics, I might speculate that since 9 was defeated in
- >oregon by a nice, but not a huge, margin (57%-43%, I think),
- >and since the lion's share of the "No on 9" votes came from
- >the Portland area, it could well have been approved within
- >localities such as Bend. I'd certainly be willing to put up
- >good money that Aspen voted more "welcomingly of the gay
- >community" than did Bend.
-
- The figures I've got say Measure 9 lost in Deschutes Co. (Bend)
- by 56% to 43%, a slightly lower margin than in the rest of the state.
- If you want to patronize someplace whose politics are better than the
- skiing, try Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood, who placed several huge
- anti-9 ads in the Oregonian.
- --
- Brent Capps | I could love anything on earth
- bcapps@agora.rain.com (gay stuff) | that appeared to wish it.
- bcapps@atlastele.com (telecom stuff) | -- Lord Byron
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