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Re: Vietnam Vet Runs for Governor - Opponent Dodged the Draft

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From: Willwork4food
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 00:00
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Jafo wrote:

> As viewed from alt.california on Mon, 26 Oct 1998 21:51:31 -0800,
> LAListener wrote:
>
> >as forwarded from post on la.general
> >
> >
> >02698-99
> >26 Oct 1998
> >Newsgroups
> >Calif Vietnam Vet for Governor Aims High for Vets
> >
> >Former Army Captain and Bronze Star winner for Meritorious Service
> >Gray Davis seeks to maintain unbroken chain of military veterans who
> >served as California's chief executive since Army Captain Ronald
> >Reagan occupied Governor's house. Gray's opponent, who requested and
> >received a student deferment from military service during the Vietnam
> >War, says California would be better served by a non-vet.
>
> Oh, please.  These are strange people indeed to be trading on
> patriotism.  Nobody's saying that the state would be "better served
> by a non-vet", only that the state would be better served by *this*
> non-vet.  This is certainly an amusing turn of events; Democrats have
> to search long and hard to find an under-70 veteran among their ranks.
> They have *one* and now they're a bunch of flag-wavers.  It's enough
> to turn your stomach.
>
> --
>  ~  Jafo

hummm... this lungren guy is starting to sound just like Clinton......
does he inhale?
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From: Willwork4food <work4food@gte.net>
Subject: Re: Vietnam Vet Runs for Governor - Opponent Dodged the Draft
Date: 1998/10/27
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