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From: msimpson@bbncca.ARPA (Mike Simpson)
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Subject: Re: And now for the good news....
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Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 12:44:02 EDT
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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),
-- 
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