From: Andy Baracco 
Subject: Re: ACB Washington Connection (fwd)
Hello Mr. Gashel. I found your description of your legislative strategy
regarding the Gordon amendment to be most enlightening and informative.
I'm curious as to why you didn't post it behind my posts so the list
members could make a direct comparison of points of view. Is that because
it is your position that the membership should simply lock step and that
they are not capable of thinking for themselves? When are you going to
stop this war mentality? We are not living in the 1960's, and waving the
bloody shirt is getting kind of old. Regardless of the total membership of
the organizations that make u the organized blind movement, those numbers
are pitifully small when compared to all of the interest groups competing
for the collective legislative ear. I do not think that we earn any
political currency by arguing with one another. I wonder how long it will
take for you to come to realize that. I think that you have heard from
several of the list members that they want, and feel that they deserve to
hear different viewpoints. What do you fear by allowing that to happen.
Many of your comments obviously spring from fear. Hey, Jim, what are you
afraid of?
Andy Baracco
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