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Doug Bashford (Doug.Bashford%ow@salata.com) wrote:

:    Yep, Tom Gray  said to All on 27 Nov 94  21:43:00 
:       about: Environment facing rough era....
:  

:  >  From: Tom Gray <tgray@igc.apc.org>
:  >  By Bonner R. Cohen
:   ...

:  >  The victorious House Republicans' "Contract with America" did not 
:  >  contain a single environmental provision, a clear indication that 
:  >  Speaker-to-be Newt Gingrich of Georgia will deal with a different 
:  >  set of priorities during the first 100 days of the new Congress. 

:   One thing about Gingrich, he is a strategist.  He also has some
:   environmental training, does not seem to be rabid anti-environmentalist,
:   has supported some environmental legislation.  We need to push him now,
:   our strategy: "If only CONSERVatives would return to CONSERVation, we
:   would return to the Republicans."   76% of Americans consider 
:   themselves environmentalists.  


The republicans would never acknowledge this figure. They will find other 
studies which indicate only %17 percent of Americans consider themselves 
environmentalists and the remaning %83 would favor having a toxic waste 
dump built in close proximity to their schools and homes! I think that we
 just have to brace ourselves and band together to fight the environmental
outrages which are sure to follow in the coming months.

-Jamie

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