Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site ubvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!timeinc!phri!pesnta!amd!amdcad!cae780!ubvax!tonyw From: tonyw@ubvax.UUCP (Tony Wuersch) Newsgroups: net.motss,net.kids,net.singles Subject: Re: Gay fostercare ban: more news Message-ID: <235@ubvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 13:39:26 EDT Article-I.D.: ubvax.235 Posted: Thu Jun 27 13:39:26 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 06:33:40 EDT References: <1470@bbncca.ARPA> <2429@mit-hermes.ARPA> Organization: Ungermann-Bass, Inc., Santa Clara, CA Lines: 25 Xref: watmath net.motss:1800 net.kids:1417 net.singles:7595 Summary: there is no political rationale for gay-baiting in Mass. In article <2429@mit-hermes.ARPA>, jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick) writes: > I want to present an alernative view to Ron Rizzo's here. Dukakis faces a > possibly tough reelection campaign next year, very likely against a Catholic > Joe Sixpack type, Ed King. Their two previous electoral bouts (they won one > each) split the state's Democrats on class lines as well as political ones. > One of King's supporters actually said, after he defeated Dukakis, "We put > all the hate groups in a pot and let it boil." You can guess how King and > his gang feel about gays. > > What I'm leading up to is that this is a political game. As a former Mass person from the heart of Ed King country (Fall River, MA), I think this kind of justification is pure bull. Southeastern Mass, the biggest supporter of King in his successful bid for governor some years ago, also voted for Barney Frank in 1982 over Margaret Heckler, by a 60-40 percent margin. Anyone who recalls that campaign will remember that Heckler ran ads picking on Frank's support of making the Boston "combat zone" into a special district, and on Frank's sponsorship of the first anti-gay discrimination bill in Mass.. Look where it got her. Dukakis does not have to pull this kind of #$&! to beat King. Tony Wuersch {amd,amdcad}!cae780!ubvax!tonyw