[Guillermo]

What is it about the word "PRIVATE" that these FREAKS and WACKOS don't understand???

I always laugh when I hear a leftist say we're losing our freedoms in this country, then turn around and demand that private organizations (BSA, Country Clubs, Churches) change their membership rules.

[Bikers4Bush]

Awesome.

[dead]

Holy cow! Hootie's got cahones!

When's he running for office? He's got my vote.

[jdub]

One of the last holdouts for self determination left. When they give in, it will be a sad day for us all.

[mhking]

Club chairman Hootie Johnson announced Friday that because corporate sponsors of the Masters' telecast are being pressured by the National Council of Women's Organizations, the 2003 tournament will be shown without sponsors or commercials.

I love it!

You mess with us, and up yours!

The only folks they could go after now are CBS and USA!

[Diddle E. Squat]

Brilliant. I think their boycott just backfired on these gals. No commercials make for better TV viewing.

[Guillermo]

Anyways, which Network will air the Masters if they can't make any $$ off of it?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

    Bravo!

[No!]

It's great to be rich....

GOOD FOR THEM!

lol

[Under the Radar]

Excellent news, thanks for posting!

[imawit]

LADY, there's the door!!!!!!!!!!!

[farmfriend]

Rather than put its sponsors in a position where boycotts or their products or services would be threatened, Johnson said the Masters will absorb the advertising fees that would have been paid by IBM, Coca-Cola and Citigroup.

Gentlemen, I salute your decision.

[Cousin Eddie]

The Masters has always been a bit different. Far fewer commercials (4 minutes per hour vs. the normal 12-16 on network TV), and the only commercials were done by the sponsors of the event (i.e. Wendy's couldn't buy a commercial since it wasn't a sponsor of The Masters).
God bless them for taking this stand. Frankly, I belong to a private club (non-golf) that has women and men as members, and I think that's fine. It's also fine if men or women want to have their own private club and restrict it to one sex.

[hangin' chad]

Hootie...you thah man!

[michigander]

"Augusta National is NCWO's true target," Johnson said in a statement. "It is therefore unfair to put the Masters media sponsors in the position of having to deal with this pressure. Accordingly, we have told our media sponsors that we will not request their participation for the 2003 Masters."

This development is slicker than their bikini-waxed greens.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

NCWO TAKES ON AUGUSTA NATIONAL GOLF CLUB

On June 12, NCWO sent a letter to Augusta National Golf Club, an all-male membership organization that is home to the Masters, asking the club to review its membership policies to allow women members.

On July 8, William W. "Hootie" Johnson responded, stating "[the club] is a distinctviely private club and . . . cannot talk about its membership and practices with those outside the organization. . . . any further communication betwee us would not be productive." The next day he released a two-page press release.

NCWO's Letter of June 12

Hootie Johnson's Letter of July 8

Hootie Johnson's Release to the Press of July 9

 

MARTHA BURK, CHAIR

Dr. Martha Burk is a political psychologist and women's equity expert who is co-founder and President of the Center for Advancement of Public Policy, a research and policy analysis organization in Washington, D.C. Dr. Burk is currently serving as Chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations, a network of over 100 national women's groups collectively representing six million women.

 

National Council of Women's Organizations
733 15th Street. NW,
Suite 1011
Washington, DC 20005

202-393-7122
Fax 202-387-7915

E-mail: info@womensorganizations.org

[TRY ONE]

...Well that't tit for tat.....I mean tat for tit.

[AUgrad]

Private enterprise bump.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Here's betting Hootie angered the bags. Their next target will be the players. Watch for the pressure application to Nike to gently ask Tiger to withdrawl. Watch for the effort to get Acushnet (Titleist) to ask its tournament pros to boycott. The bags will attack the other advertisers of (ABC?) because they are sponsoring the offending network.

[Jim Scott]

This is great but it's kind of sad that a rich man's golf club is the group that turns out to have enough guts to take a real stand against the forced admission of women. Who would've thought that middle aged guys in golf outfits would be able to stare down the nannies at NCWO?

Exempting sponsors was brilliant (and probably quite expensive). Good for the Augusta National Golf Club. Private is private. Freedom of association is still a right to be honored.

Besides, they wouldn't admit me, either.