Gail, you are reading things into my message that are not there. Rather than smacking me upside the head, maybe you need a course in logic. I did not say that every smoker sits on a bar stool and doesn't vote. I didn't accuse you, or smokers in general, of anything. I was a smoking liberal for many years before I became a nonsmoking liberal. Dave Thune is a smoking liberal. I don't think liberals, either smokers or nonsmokers, are going to vote for Bush, no matter how they feel about the smoking ordinance.
I said that there are smokers who sit in bars and don't vote, and that attempting to recall Kelly at the Nov 3 election might inspire them to go and vote, and hurt Kerry. This is true, and I don't want to divert attention from this fact because your feelings are hurt. This isn't about you at all. Good grief. Gail said: > Doggonit, Bob you are trying my patience!!! > > " think that most clean air advocates in Saint Paul will vote regardless of whether a Kelly recall is on the ballot Nov 3, so it would be nuetral for John Kerry. There will be some smokers who will come out just to support Kelly, and meanwhile vote for Bush. I can easily imagine bar-owners giving free drinks to smokers with "I Voted" stickers. I think it is better not to poke at them, and let them sit out the election on the barstool, sucking away with their buddies. > > This could be a good idea for a special election in january, but not if it happens on Nov 3. Kelly may very well lose a St Paul vote, but the smokers who show up at the polls to support Kelly would add to the statewide support for Bush. Every vote counts. Lets not encourage non-voters to show up and vote for Bush." > > I have worked the Fair booth, schlepped signs, done lit drops and written a kajillion letters to the editor (some even published) and I resent being compared to a Limbaugh barstool jockey who would throw away her vote because Kelly vetoed the smoking ban. If you were across the table from me right now I would smack you upside the head and force you to listen to my 40 years' experience as a dedicated, marrow-deep, populist , civil rights champion, anti-war before you left grade school (pre-school?), SMOKING LIBERAL. > > Good grief. > Gail O'Hare > St. Paul > > > > _____________________________________________ > To Join: St. Paul Issues Forum Rules Discussion > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _____________________________________________ > NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul > > Archive Address: > http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/ > > -- Bob Treumann, Saint Paul Please Note: Replies to this email address all go to the trash except where the subject line contains a recognized mailing list identifier, such as [TCMETRO],[StPaul], MP-N ... _____________________________________________ To Join: St. Paul Issues Forum Rules Discussion Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________ NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul Archive Address: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/
