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Re: Republican Influence in BSA
Daniel Brown (dabrown2@VT.EDU)
Fri, 16 Jan 1998 19:30:17 +0500
I would say that use and sometimes abuse of scouting very bipartisan. Many
candidates like to have scouts carrying that flag for the cameras at thier
rallies. Many years ago when I was involved in political campaigns in
another state, I was asked to provide scouts for that purpose but declined.
However, I have never seen any attempt to control scouting by any party.
I am a little too young to remember the get out the vote campaign. I joined
scouting three weeks before the 1964 election. The good turns that I
remember are collecting for goodwill and handing out flyers for the census.
However, I do see a get out the vote event as a valuable service to the
country an one we might consider again. Our rate of voter participation in
this country is almost criminal. Any party are candidate that feels that it
is to its advantage to have fewer rather than more voters needs to have its
values examined and certianly will not get my vote.
At 01:04 AM 1/15/98 -0500, you wrote:
>BILL NELSON wrote:
>
>> Someone wrote to me pointing out that the last time we had Get out the
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>> Vote as a National Good Turn was in 1960. He said he knew someone
>> who said that he quit being active after the Republican party got
>> control
>> of the BSA after the 1960 elections. According to him, they blamed
>> the
>> BSA for losing the election (very close in you recall). At that time
>> it
>> was believed that get out the vote campaigns almost always favored the
>>
>> Democratic party. His contact said that the Republicans
>> were making sure it never happened again.
>>
>> Any comments?
>>
Terry Howerton Sakima Group, Inc. SCOUTER Magazine Kansas City |
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