Re: [UC] Re: [phillyneighborhoods] Sign Up for "Get on the Bus Tours" Voter R...

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In a message dated 9/13/2004 8:39:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The USAction Fund has a reputation for targeting young people, people > of color, low-income people and gays and lesbians If Jeff Blum is > still its executive director, he has established a liberal track > record, including working against President Bush's tax reduction > programs. An article in 'The Hill' dated March 17, 2004 described > USAction as follows: > He's right. Registering young people, people of color, low income people, and gays and lesbians is _prima facie_ evidence of sinister activity. Ya darn tootin'. I was at a rally today up at Penn with Terry McAuliffe of the DNC and there were more young people and people of color than you could shake a stick at. Many of them quite HOT. And all fired up! Made me feel like I had died and gone to heaven.   I sat in the back with the half-dozen old people. The warmup speaker was Melissa Fitzgerald, who plays Carol (?) on the West Wing. She was born in HUP, and she is a Penn alumna, as were her parents. She got a rousing welcome.   May have been some low income gays and lesbians in the crowd, but it was hard to spot 'em. There was one co-ed wearing a button with a pink triangle that said "I'm straight but I'm not narrow." Whatever the hell that means.   There must have been 200 or more people there, in the lobby of the Annenberg Center, hootin and hollerin to beat the band. It was quite apparent that they didn't like Bush at all, not even one little bit. Can't say I blame them. You can probably see the event on the late TV news.     Ross Bender http://rossbender.org/myersbriggs.html