While I am not a Republican, I would find it hard to support your
arguments. The executive order directing all federal agencies to
convert to metric was issued by a Republican - George H.W. Bush. There
are many powerful corporate interests lobbying FOR adoption of the
metric system - especially ones that export packaged goods overseas.
Many of these corporate interests also tend to be conservative.
On 2004 Aug 27, at 20:50, Carleton MacDonald wrote:
You need to also consider:
1. A well-funded campaign to recall the Governor, started by
conservative
Republicans, began last year.
2. The person who initially funded the petition was suddenly no
longer the
prime candidate.
3. A new prime candidate came out of nowhere.
4. The Karl Rove administration is known for deciding who will run in
congressional and other races throughout the USA. In many cases,
candidates
were told in no uncertain terms to drop out in favor of the Party
leadership's chosen candidate.
5. The Cheney/Rove administration represents large corporate
interests.
6. Contractors tend to be conservative. Many are large corporations.
7. Contractors don't like being told to do something differently.
They
like their own way and their old familiar units.
8. The contractors whined and whined and got nowhere for 10 years,
until a
new Governor, favored by corporate interests, took office.
9. Far fetched? I don't think so. Someone high up got to Caltrans.
They
didn't do this on their own. Same thing in Utah, without doubt. With
metrication completed, why would anyone go back, unless pressured?
Carleton
P.S. Acknowledged, Gray Davis wasn't the best at articulating his
policies.
But who knows how many of his problems were caused by people like Enron
gaming the state's energy market. (Who knows if THAT wasn't
orchestrated,
either.)
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Euric
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 18:32
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:30869] Re: Arnie
Arnold may have been born and raised in a metric country, but he is now
totally Americanised. I'm sure if you asked him his opinion, you'd
get a
response of support for English units from him. Most immigrants try to
conform and go out of their way to become familiar with FFU. Some
immigrants refused to speak metric to me, even if I spoke metric to
them or
asked them to.
Being from a metric country does not automatically assume metric
support.
Euric
----- Original Message -----
From: "David King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, 2004-08-27 18:09
Subject: [USMA:30866] Re: Arnie
Don't forget as well that the Governor grew up in a metric country,
Austria.
And you could ask him to "terminate" the backward thinking move to
imperial units.
David King
