Point taken!
Sorry about the typos in my last post to you-guess I need glasses. LOL Although I had a hand in fundraising for the business owners that were backing the amendment (and they were still outspent on ads 4-1 or 5-1), my crowning achievement , I have to confess, was purely a stroke of luck. I wrote a letter to the editor of one of the local weekly papers (with a wide circulation among people who can't stand the Blade) as I knew the Blade (rabidly smoker-hater, would never have published it). I stated the amount the heads of the ACS, the ALA, & the AHA in every state got for a salary, compared to the NATIONAL heads of TRUE non-profit orgs like the Salvation Army. I told how the parking lot at the national headquarters for the ACS was filled with expensive SUV's, Lexus, Mercedes, etc. I then stated the amount the 3 usual suspects were spending on ads to get the amendment to fail. I ended it by saying, "Isn't it indeed a pity that all this money (including those exorbitant salaries), raised mainly by your donations, can't be used for research, as it was intended?" They published my letter four days before the election-therefore, they had no time for rebuttal-they would've had to lie, anyway, since everything I said was the truth. The amendment passed by less than a thousand votes. So, I like to think that my letter influenced a lot of people. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'll bet it did.