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To: ColtonGang who wrote (42372)	10/4/2000 9:59:11 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

She was brought to Gore's meeting by her former co-workers in the auto workers union. The union was asked by the Gore campaign to go out and find a hard luck story they could use as agitprop. Which begs the question, why don't her union benefits cover her medication? And she's not poor. She lives in a comfortable neighborhood, and I find it incredible that she is forced to choose between medicine and food. That doesn't happen with retired union workers. Unless their union is screwing them.

To: ColtonGang who wrote (42372)	10/4/2000 10:00:34 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Again you misrepresent the facts. No, he had it right. .....poor people just are not on the republican agenda Now this statement is misrepresentation. For instance under Gov. Bush's tax plan 6 million low income families are removed from the tax rolls. JLA

To: ColtonGang who wrote (42372)	10/4/2000 10:03:57 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

I dislike NewsMax- it is unabashedly biased. But didn't you wonder about this last night when Gore said the woman had a Winnebago and a poodle? It didn't take NewsMax to make me question the honesty or applicability of this tearjerk appeal. We can always find sob stories-- I was a Social Worker for years, and heard some of the saddest, only to find that so often the saddest were that way because of circumstances within their own control- either in their past or in their present. It doesn't make them less sad, sure, but they shouldn't be used as fodder for political gain. This is pure emotional manipulation- something Gore is increasingly shameless in employing. I cracked up when, during the education question, he had to try to one-up Bush's statement about using public education for his girls, (which the Bushes did with NO fanfare here in Texas) by quickly claiming his kids went to both public and private. We were waiting for him to throw in parochial, home-schooling, and alternative, just to make sure he sucked up to everyone. :)

To: ColtonGang who wrote (42372)	10/4/2000 11:49:14 AM
From: kvkkc1	Respond to of 769667

What's her small fixed income plus ss add up to? She obviously didn't want to tell gore how much she made since he would probably check to see if she was having her ss decreased if she was making too much.knc