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illegal Taxpayer funded campaigning ?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 21 Jan 2003 20:30:55 GMT
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In for a penny, in for a pound (1), as they say...
Herewith an article from Reason, one of my favorite magazines:
http://www.reason.com/hod/df011603.shtml
making the case that our Drug Czar has been using taxpayer funds to cock
referendums without obeying the proper forms... I hope NV finds against him
and his ilk, it would be a good lesson. Not that it would be taken to heart
by Jr. though...
And another tangentially related:
http://www.reason.com/cy/cy011403.shtml
as you may recall the LP ran an ad mocking the drug warriors and their
shoddy reasoning some time ago... glad to see the anti SUV crowd doing the
same (2), even if I have little sympathy for their cause.
1 - a pound of what? The saying doesn't specify. I choose not to say either.
2 - arguably without realising it, if you think about it, the ads seem to be
serious rather than mocking. All the more reason to savor them!
++Lar
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| (...) I've actually seen the SUV ad and appreciated it-it was a good play on sweet and innocent girl doing the voice over against her actual words, much like the satire 'See Spot Run' cartoons I've seen in the past, in which Spot is not anything (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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