Re: Primary aftermath

[Dave Faneuf <tklaundry@juno.com>]

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:27:19 -0700 (PDT) Dan Billings
<billingsdan@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> I looked it up:  According the November 11, 1994
> Boston Globe Senator Kennedy told Andy Hiller of
> WHDH-TV that it was appropriate to scrutinize Romney's
> religion. 

Once again the Senator and I disagree.  Religion has no place in politics
and should never be used as a campaign issue.

> The story also side: After the primary landslide Sept.
> 20 by the &#34;millionaire Mormon,&#34; as Liz Walker
> referred to Romney that night on WBZ-TV, 

I think it was not appropriate for Liz to make that comment if she did. 
He's a millionare, when people talk of Bill Gates do they preface the
word Billionare with his religious beliefs?  Or that of Warren Buffet? 
Do they call Ted Kennedy the Catholic Senator?  It was an inapproprate
comment and she or her writers should have known better.

US Rep.
> Joseph P. Kennedy II told the Herald that blacks were
> excluded from the Mormon priesthood. In fact, the
> church lifted that prohibition in 1978. 

And women still can't be priests in the Catholic religion,  his point
would be?

> 
> Would you have bleeped Senator Kennedy?  Congressman
> Kennedy?  Or Liz Walker?

Both their comments were inappropriate and had nothing to do with the
issue at hand, the campaign for US Senate
 
> The same story also said that the striking workers
> from a Romney company were the turning point in the
> campaign.

This is the story I remember as being the turning point as well.

df