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To: brian1501 who wrote (203675)	9/22/2004 4:35:43 PM
From: g_w_north	Respond to of 1571399

<If the public figure is voting for anti-gay legislation, then you know that he is anti-gay policy-wise, and you should or shouldn't vote for him on those grounds. Why do you have any right to know his private sexual details?> Being anti-gay or racist is a personal decision but policymakers are held to a higher standard and should be. My original point was, if you will check, simply that he has hired an expensive Chief of Staff on the public's dime. If he was hired to be close to him then a crime may have been committed therefore, their should be an investigation. How would people have reacted if Clinton was not only sleeping with interns but hiring them and paying them extraordinary salaries? In that scenario I don't think he would have survived impeachment. I don't care if he sleeps with buffaloes...

To: brian1501 who wrote (203675)	9/22/2004 6:03:13 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571399

Why? I see no logic at all in your reasoning. If the public figure is voting for anti-gay legislation, then you know that he is anti-gay policy-wise, and you should or shouldn't vote for him on those grounds. Why do you have any right to know his private sexual details? Maybe he is gay and is ashamed of it, or he's just a hypocrite, or maybe he isn't gay at all...but why is that your business? So it wouldn't bother you if a politician was Pro Choice but performing abortions on the side? ted