msimpson@bbncca.ARPA (Mike Simpson) (09/19/84)
In article <946@bbncca.ARPA> rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) writes:
~| Despite the increasingly lunatic character of the voters & election
~| campaigns in this Year of Our Lord Big Brother, sanity is prevailing
~| (for the time being, at least) in Massachusetts in its primaries,
~| which occurred yesterday.
~|
~| Rep. Gerry Studds, who was censured for a gay affair with a congressional
~| page in 1973, won by a landslide (61% to 34%) over his opponent, county
~| sheriff Peter Flynn, whose campaign consisted primarily of scurrilously
~| harping on Studds' censure. So much for homophobic prophets of doom among
~| political pundits.
~|
~| And Lt. Gov. John Kerry, former national head of the Vietnam Veterans
~| Against the War squeaked past fellow liberal Democrat James Shannon
~| (41% to 38%) in the race for Paul Tsongas' vacated Senate seat.
~| Apparently, voters here are not asking the currently popular but unfor-
~| tunately genocidal rhetorical question of "Why didn't we win
~| in Vietnam?".
~|
~| Among the Republicans, millionaire businessperson & self-styled Reaganite
~| Ray Shamie buried former secretary of state & blue-blood Elliot Richard-
~| son 62%-38%, for the Senate, nearly assuring Kerry's victory in November:
~| only Richardson stood a chance of beating the Democrat (voters here love
~| tight-lipped WASPS with genealogies); now supply-sider Shamie will be
~| treated to an all-round whipping shortly before Thanksgiving.
~|
~| Cheers,
~| Ron Rizzo
Ron,
The Commonwealth's voters proved they didn't know a good
thing when they had it by re-electing Michael DoTaxUs as
governor. Are they going to do it again by electing Kerry over
Shamie?
Re Gerry Studds: Despite his victory in the primary and
probable (at this point) re-election in November, I did not
approve of the way Studds "brazened it out" when he was censured
before the House. Agreeably, it's a tough way to come out. But
the abuse of his position was a serious breach of ethics, and
merely gives our favorite homophobes another stone to throw at
us. (Needless to say, I also don't think much of Daniel Crane's
behavior -- a Congressman going after a page is a NO-NO, and the
sex of the people involved in irrelevant.)
Rooting for both Rons (Rizzo and Reagan),
--
Mike Simpson, BBN
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