Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!bbncca!msimpson From: msimpson@bbncca.ARPA (Mike Simpson) Newsgroups: net.motss,net.politics,net.religion Subject: Re: And now for the good news.... Message-ID: <947@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 12:44:02 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.947 Posted: Wed Sep 19 12:44:02 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 21:21:43 EDT References: <946@bbncca.ARPA> Reply-To: msimpson@bbncca.UUCP (Mike Simpson) Followup-To: (<946@bbncca.ARPA>) Distribution: net.motss,net.politics,net.religion Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 52 In article <946@bbncca.ARPA> rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) writes: ~| Despite the increasingly lunatic character of the voters & election ~| campaigns in this Year of Our Lord Big Brother, sanity is prevailing ~| (for the time being, at least) in Massachusetts in its primaries, ~| which occurred yesterday. ~| ~| Rep. Gerry Studds, who was censured for a gay affair with a congressional ~| page in 1973, won by a landslide (61% to 34%) over his opponent, county ~| sheriff Peter Flynn, whose campaign consisted primarily of scurrilously ~| harping on Studds' censure. So much for homophobic prophets of doom among ~| political pundits. ~| ~| And Lt. Gov. John Kerry, former national head of the Vietnam Veterans ~| Against the War squeaked past fellow liberal Democrat James Shannon ~| (41% to 38%) in the race for Paul Tsongas' vacated Senate seat. ~| Apparently, voters here are not asking the currently popular but unfor- ~| tunately genocidal rhetorical question of "Why didn't we win ~| in Vietnam?". ~| ~| Among the Republicans, millionaire businessperson & self-styled Reaganite ~| Ray Shamie buried former secretary of state & blue-blood Elliot Richard- ~| son 62%-38%, for the Senate, nearly assuring Kerry's victory in November: ~| only Richardson stood a chance of beating the Democrat (voters here love ~| tight-lipped WASPS with genealogies); now supply-sider Shamie will be ~| treated to an all-round whipping shortly before Thanksgiving. ~| ~| Cheers, ~| Ron Rizzo Ron, The Commonwealth's voters proved they didn't know a good thing when they had it by re-electing Michael DoTaxUs as governor. Are they going to do it again by electing Kerry over Shamie? Re Gerry Studds: Despite his victory in the primary and probable (at this point) re-election in November, I did not approve of the way Studds "brazened it out" when he was censured before the House. Agreeably, it's a tough way to come out. But the abuse of his position was a serious breach of ethics, and merely gives our favorite homophobes another stone to throw at us. (Needless to say, I also don't think much of Daniel Crane's behavior -- a Congressman going after a page is a NO-NO, and the sex of the people involved in irrelevant.) Rooting for both Rons (Rizzo and Reagan), -- Mike Simpson, BBN msimpson@bbn-unix (ARPA) {decvax,ihnp4,ima,linus,wjh12}!bbncca!msimpson (Usenet) 617-497-2819 (Ma Bell)