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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (6180)	12/13/2000 9:46:42 PM
From: margie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

Gore gave a very good speech. Spoken like a gentleman, finally, 35 days late but still a dignified concession speech. ....And he used the "C" word which hopefully means the campaign to find faithless electors has stopped. A Republican elector was interviewed yesterday who said she received 200 emails just yesterday. I hope it's really over. Apparently Al Gore has been speaking to Jesse Jackson daily. Hope Al tells Jesse: "Hit the road Jesse and don't come back no more no more."

To: sandintoes who wrote (6180)	12/13/2000 9:48:56 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6710

Having lived in a housing project myself as a kid, I may feel a little bit differently about that than you do. -g- My parents got married early and had four kids while my dad was still in college. So even though my mom worked as a legal secretary, we qualified to live in the projects when my dad started dental school. Back then, the projects in New Orleans, like everything else, were segregated, but the neighborhood was very mixed. The housing project was St. Thomas, in what used to be called the Irish Channel, where poor Irish and Italian immigrants lived when they first immigrated to America. I saw a dead person lying on the street when I was coming home from school in the second grade. He had been killed in a knife fight in a bar. Unfortunately for people living in housing projects today, seeing what I saw isn't unusual any more. Housing projects have become hell holes. One more example of well-intentioned social programs gone awry. The Desire Housing Project in New Orleans is so dangerous that police officers are afraid to go there even during the day. Some people have suggested that instead of school vouchers, we should have housing vouchers so poor people can move into better neighborhoods.