National Journal article sez net-activism is just political hicks

[declan@well.com (Declan McCullagh)]

>Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 11:04:50 -0700
>From: jwarren@well.com (Jim Warren)
>Subject: National Journal article sez net-activism is just political hicks
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>Tommorrow, Washington's politically-powerful National Journal reportedly
>will publish a know-nothing piece of "journalism" saying that net-aided
>politics is essentially nothing but a batch of ineffective, know-nothing
>nerds and back-water political hacks.
>
>Check it out on Friday or thereafter -- at www.politicsusa.com -- and
>forward your *informed* comments to the NJ's Editor and Letters Editor.
>
>--jim
>
>On the other hand, maybe we ought to just continue escalating our political
>effectiveness using the net, and let it come as a total shock to the
>Beltway insiders who trust this piece of misinformed blather ... when we
>provide more and more swing votes in contested elections -- as already
>occured with DeFoley8 against ex-Speaker Tom Foley, VTW for now-Senator Ron
>Wyden, me for now-available Calif legislative data, the gun BBS against
>ex-Calif Senate Prez Pro Tem David Roberti, etc.  :-)
>