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Skaggs is not the only alternative to Pat Miller!  There is also
a Libertarian, Earl Allen, running for congress in this district.
If you want more information, check out Earl's home page at
http://www.allmax.com/wea or email him at wea@allmax.com.  You
can find more general information about the Libertarian party
and its platform at http://www.lp.org/lp

David Skaggs is a good man, and definitely a friend to the gay
and lesbian community.  But I can't vote for him because I'm not
a single-issue voter -- I'm also concerned about the ballooning
invasiveness and expense of the federal government.  Skaggs is
a great believer in government -- any problem you can name is
best solved with a new or bigger bureaucracy. 

If people who would ordinarily vote Republican vote Libertarian
because of Miller's anti-gay statements, you'll send a message
to the Republicans just as powerfully as if you voted Democrat.

But it sends a *different* message -- that not only are you tired
of gaybashing and their obsession with banning abortion, but that 
you're tired of the War on Drugs or that you're tired of 
all their hot air about cutting budgets while actually proposing 
larger ones.  

If you continue voting for D's and R's, they have no way of knowing
you're dissatisfied with the both of them!  

> "P.S. As a long-time activist for pro-life and pro-family causes, I know
> Congressman David Skaggs is an extreme anti-life, pro-homosexual politician.
> . .even more liberal than Pat Schroeder.  In 1994, I proved David Skaggs
> could be beaten"

It puzzles me why Pat Miller things she can run a campaign based on
"exposing" Skaggs' liberal record to the voters.  Duh.  We know.  He gets
half his votes from people who like that, and the other half from people
who are horrified by Pat Miller.

> Skaggs has stood up for you and me again and again in Congress.  

And I do appreciate that.  But it's about the only thing I like about 
him, and it's not enough.

Don't let the Republicans and Democrats pull the "good cop, bad
cop" routine on you this year yet again.  Voting for third
parties is what it will take to wake them *both* up.

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 Chris Bogart        \  /  http://www.quetzal.com
 Boulder, CO          \/   cbogart@quetzal.com
 Chair, Libertarian Party of Boulder County