Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 21:54:51 -0000
From: pgammill@home.com
Subject: [lpaz-discuss] Re: My Libertarian Anti-heros
To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com
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Dear Barry,

I have been having my own row with Jonathan Hoffman, LP Candidate for 
City Council - Tucson  on the AZLP-Pima group on the subject of 
accepting campaign matching funds.  Others on this list here have been 
doing voluminously well at stating their opposition to the image 
acceptance by a "Libertaria" candidate of such funds does to our 
cause, so I have kept quiet. In reading this disappointing exchange 
occurring between you and others on this list I am reminded of a 
anecdote.  Sir Winston Churchill was at a dinner party when the 
off-color topic of prostitution came up in response to a Times article 
detailing the arrests of several women the previous day for such 
activity.  In an exchange with a socialite, the former Prime Minister 
asked her if she would "have sex with him for on million pounds."  

After brief contemplation, she replied that for that kind of money 
why, yes, she would have sex with him.  

He then asked her if she would have sex with him for a five pound 
note.  

"Certainly not," she replied indignantly!  "What kind of woman do you 
think I am?!!!!  

"We have already established that madam," Churchill replied.  "Now, we 
are negotiating your price."


I have read earlier where you, Barry, have stated that if you 
qualified for the funds (and were the funds not of sufficiently large 
amount  hence, my discomfort as to where your heart truly lies) you 
would pickup the check, call a news conference and burn it before all 
the cameras.  If I believed you would do this no matter the amount, 
then I would support you in your efforts to get the loot.  Not only 
would this be a spectacular news event, you would be given free rein 
in denouncing the CEA for all the right reasons, a lot of publicity 
would ensue, and the bureaucrats would be in a quandary over what to 
do about your act.  `We saw him burn it, but we can't spend it... 
there is no procedure for this... perhaps he would accept another cut 
check?' (accept it and burn it too).  At any rate, if this is what you 
intend, then I would support you.  

But being a libertarian, I would want a civil contract, signed by you 
along the lines of one of Ricky Duncan's contracts.  Take the money 
and cash the check(s), and you are subject paying any and all AZ 
registered voters, or anyone who has ever gotten a civil or ciminal 
citation in Arizona since the CEA went into effect, who ask are 
entitled to $25 for damages, refusal subject to small claims court.  
Shall I ask Ricky to draw up a contract?

Powell:-)


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