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- From: rhayden@oracle.com (Ronald Hayden)
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- Subject: Re: Into the streets!
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:15:53 GMT
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- In article <C1DHHu.EDn@agora.rain.com> bcapps@agora.rain.com (Brent Capps) writes:
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- I'm with you, Ron. I'd also like to add that, even if Clinton turns out
- to be really good on our issues, there's a danger that we'll get too
- dependent on having a sympathetic party in the White House and be caught
- napping some presidential election. It takes time to build up a grassroots
- support structure, we shouldn't let ours get neglected through complasancy.
-
- As Melinda Shore mentioned elsewhere: A friend in the White House is
- not the time we get to sit back and watch the changes happen. It's
- when we REALLY get to work and MAKE the changes happen.
-
- Now we don't have the same old barriers, but we can't expect others to
- do our work for us.
-
- Also, there are always new enemies. Clinton is being told that there
- are enough congressional votes to overturn whatever he does on gays in
- the military. We can't let ourselves be one of the issues that helps
- sink Clinton -- if that happens, the message to other politicians will
- be that gay issues are STILL death to the politician.
- --
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- - Ronald Hayden
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