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Re: This Californian Has Voted. Have You?
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Wed, 8 Oct 2003 14:15:19 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Costello wrote:
> Recall - Oh heck YES
> Replace with - The govenator
> 
> Prop 53 - Yes
> Prop 54 - Yes
> 
> as I type this post Davis is conceding this election, score one for the good
> guys! and shame on you LA Times, your slime campaign failed.

Arnold admits to some of the charges and is a "good" guy and is "slimed"?  How
can he be slimed if he issues an apology, and a weak, vague one at that?  Sounds
more like it's the Times that is being slimed.


> 
> I just wanted to post on prop 54, since C. Everet Koop lied about it. As a
> person of mixed race this thing always confused me. Imagine this your father is
> black, and your mother is white. At 6 years old you are handed a form and asked
> to check one box for your nationality. What do you check? Teachers advise kids
> to check the box to which they most closely associate with. What the heck does
> that mean? I like my Dad better so today I am black, my Mom is nicer so today I
> am white. Really confusing. As for Koop, he claimed that it would negatively
> effect medical research, well if he had taken a minute to read the bill he would
> have seen that it excludes medical research from this new law. (Actually I think
> he did read it, and intentionally mislead people).
> 
> Scott C.

This really has nothing to do with the Proposition - there is nothing stopping
the state from doing exactly what the National Census now does, and allow
"multi-racial" as an answer.  Having said that, I find this 20th Century
attitude (ahhhh, someone had to use that phrase finally) by the California
schools annoying to no end (for non-Californians, what Scott says above about
the actual practices is what I have experienced).  I've instructed my son to
check more than one box despite the instructions, especially since he does not
identify with one side more than the other.

-->Bruce<--



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(...) Bruce, 4 things: 1. The LA Times devoted 3 reporters for 7 weeks to investigate the character of one of the candidates, while ignoring any character issues on the other candidates. Gray Davis, for instance, is said to have a bad temper and has (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: This Californian Has Voted. Have You?
 
Recall - Oh heck YES Replace with - The govenator Prop 53 - Yes Prop 54 - Yes as I type this post Davis is conceding this election, score one for the good guys! and shame on you LA Times, your slime campaign failed. I just wanted to post on prop 54, (...) (23 years ago, 8-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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