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Re: Your tax dollars at work i.e. Queen Hillary

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From: Ron Conroy
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00
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Lloyd R. Parker wrote in message <820uq7$rs9$1@jet.cc.emory.edu>...
>Tracey Levin (tracey12NOtrSPAM@hotbot.com.invalid) wrote:
>:
>:
>: From:
>:           Ron Conroy
>: Topic:
>:           Re: Your tax dollars at work i.e. Queen Hillary
>: Message:
>:           5 of 17 (In response to salzberg)
>: Sent:
>:           Fri, 26 Nov 1999 13:09:53 -0500
>: See Also:
>:           Atlanta - General Issues, Georgia - General Discussions
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>: salzberg@cloud9.net wrote in message <81fejm$re6$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>:    In article <81ebul$kp1$1@jet.cc.emory.edu>, lparker@emory.edu (Lloyd
>: R. Parker) wrote:
>:      I'd rather have her flying on a gov't plane than doing like Lott
>: did >-- flying around on a drug company's plane and then pushing
>: legislation >to extend their Claritin patent rights to ensure
>:      their profits at our expense.
>:
>:    . . .And you know full well that the Hillary-hating hypocrites would
>: have seen nothing wrong with the same treatment had it been given to
>: Nancy Reagan or Barbara Bush.
>:
>: First of all, what's a "Hillary-hating hypocrite"???
>:
>: Second, you're very wrong on that point. To begin with, neither Nancy
>: Reagan nor Barbara Bush would have ever been so arrogant or egocentric
>: to demand such
>: preferential treatment. Comparatively speaking, they consider
>
>Nancy had Don Regan fired because he wasn't deferential enough.

WOW!!!  That was a true "decision of state" there!!!

Notice how your statement doesn't communicate that Nancy legitimately
overstepped her bounds as a First Lady...  "Nancy 'had' Don Regan..."

In other words, she may have influenced the dismissal of Regan, but she
did not spend millions of tax payer dollars carrying-on in a policy making
or exploratory venture...  That's the difference here.
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From: "Ron Conroy" <rcconroy@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Your tax dollars at work i.e. Queen Hillary
Date: 1999/11/30
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