Hello,
On Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:23:31 -0700 (PDT), "J. Martin"
<jgmartin@u.washington.edu> wrote:
quoted 16 lines On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Ken Stuart wrote:>On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Ken Stuart wrote:
>
>> Sounds like you've swallowed whole the ABC News version of Newt.
>>
>> He admits "inhaling" in the 70's when he was a professor of
>> environmental studies, and first ran for Congress on a "Green"
>> platform. And, in fact, he's still a friend of environmental
>> interests, among other things.
>
> Number of U.S. Representatives cited as "environmental zeros"
>last year by the league of conservation voters: 111
>
> Number of these appointed by Newt Gingrich last spring to his
>85-seat Task Force on the Environment: 39
>
> -- Harper's Index, Sept. '96
Which means that, despite pressures on him by his party, less than a
majority were "environmental zeroes".
"Gonzi Merchan (Fresh)" <fresh@linkonline.net> wrote:
quoted 1 line Errrr....like tobacco companies, the NRA, and the Christian Coalition?>Errrr....like tobacco companies, the NRA, and the Christian Coalition?
The last time I looked, those groups were neither environmental
groups, nor anti-environmental groups.
Newt has made some enemies on the far right, due to his continued
support for environmentalism (cf Human Events April 12, 1996 article
entitled "Gingrich's Green Record Concerns Conservatives:
Environmental Radical May Have Friend in Speaker").
I'll just leave it as an exercise to the reader to do some reading,
rather than to accept what they hear on TV, or read in the latest
progressive activist newsletter.
Having posting the reference, further discussion should go to e-mail
or the appropriate newsgroups....
Cheers,
Ken <*>
kstuart@mail.telis.org
"... 99% of what people know was imparted from descriptions
other people have given them..." - David A.Lindauer