Re: Ditto-head parrots & SC endorsements

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From: Mark Gahler
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 00:00

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Dwight wrote that Republicans rarely respond to the Sierra Club's
questionaires. This got me thinking that many would probably not want
SC's endorsement anyway, even if SC sent money along with it. This caused
me to ask myself whether I would want SC's endorsement if I ever ran for
office. I figured I might, since I believe a pro-environment conservative
would be a popular thing. Then I read...

Dan Ferber <Dan_Ferber@qms1.life.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>....the (often losing) fight against the "dirty water bill", the EPA ax 
>job, attacks on National Biological Service and other anti-environmental 
>bills in this Congress.  

...and changed my mind. This is the same rhetoric that the Sierra Club
uses and I wouldn't want any part of it. Sometimes I forget that there's
often a big difference between being conscientious wrt the environment 
and being an "environmentalist."

Mark Gahler

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From: gahler@cais2.cais.com (Mark Gahler)
Subject: Re: Ditto-head parrots & SC endorsements
Date: 1995/09/19
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