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1 posted on 10/27/2002 12:01:53 PM PST by NorCoGOP
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To: NorCoGOP
Well next year we can all consult our voters guides....OOPS
I guess not...
2 posted on 10/27/2002 12:07:14 PM PST by joesnuffy
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To: NorCoGOP
I guess I'm a little selfish here, BUT, I sure as heck HOPE the RATS don't turn out to VOTE!! STAY HOME YOU RATS!!
3 posted on 10/27/2002 12:11:19 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: NorCoGOP
Articles of this type often appear near an election and are aimed at causing conservatives to become so disgusted that they don't vote.

The recipient classes will be there voting for the dems of course.

4 posted on 10/27/2002 12:22:43 PM PST by Dialup Llama
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GO SIMON

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Bruce McPherson for CA Lt. Governor
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Tom McClintock for CA State Controller
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Dick Ackerman for CA Attorney General
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Gary Mendoza for CA Insurance Commissioner
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Katherine Smith for Superintendent of Public Instruction


Dump Davi$

GOTV

5 posted on 10/27/2002 12:38:29 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NorCoGOP; All

Neighbors, this election is so important I cannot overemphasize it...

...at the very least, commit yourself to voting, and get everyone you know to vote, too.
Now is the time to support people you like, and hammer the ones you don't... write letters, call talk shows, generally make a nuisance of yourself.

If you don't, you have no grounds to complain if things don't go your way.
The only things that will keep me from the polls are death or a major family catastrophe.

For further inspiration, may I refer you to this:

-Activate Yourself! --

Godspeed, and may God bless...

 

 


 


6 posted on 10/27/2002 1:44:50 PM PST by backhoe
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To: NorCoGOP
require television and radio stations to air at least two hours a week of candidate- or issue-centered programming in the time period before an election.

. . . Some people would of course take issue with the fact that this bill attempts to regulate the media's ability to choose its own programming -- limiting the cherished First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press.

Patently the FCC exists to regulate radio transmission, primarily by censoring most such transmission to create the clear channels without which "broadcasting" by the favored few licensees could not readily be received by a wide audience.

That turns the First Amendment on its head by creating a "right to listen" to a government-favored few, and a duty not to speak. Thus journalism is not all of the press, and broadcast journalism is not even part of it. It is fatuous to ascribe First Amendment protection to government licensees.

But this bill would not inhibit that freedom; it would help the media exercise it in ways that would also facilitate another freedom -- the right to vote.

Instead of arguing over the lack of separation between politics and the media, the focus should be put on why politicians are reduced to running their mindless ads in the first place.

Instead of fatuous discussion of the citizen's "right to know" what journalists choose to say, the focus should be put on how the poor man's soap box can compete with the rich man's broadcast station.

Journalists make money by attracting eyeballs to advertisements, and they do that by entertaining. That is the reason for the "the show must go on" deadlines which define the nonfiction genre known as journalism. And for journalism's "Man Bites Dog" emphasis as well.

Man Bites Dog plays out in real life as "Christian Commits Egregious Sin" or "Drinking Water Contains (trace ammounts of) Arsenic." Liberalism is merely the difference between good public policy and what constitutes a "great story."

Journalism is negative and superficial, and cynicism is superficial negativity. The only reason Democrats ever lose is that those most convinced by journalism are too cynical to turn out to vote.


7 posted on 10/27/2002 3:05:46 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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