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Thank you,
Cynthia
To the editor:
"Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition
Just O ut. April 27-Moy 11
by Cynthia Cumfer is an excellent article. I
want to thank her for writing it and you for
sharing it with your readers.
The May 15th primary election in Oregon
is going to be very important this year. By my
calculation lesbians and gays comprise the
largest m inority classification in the state,
with the exception of women who are a ma­
jority minority. Our impact on this election
should be equal to this fact We can have that
im pact by voting for Jesse L. Jackson for
President With Gary Hart and with Walter
Mondale our votes will be lost in the tradi­
tional coalitions. With Jackson and the Rain­
Industrial Complex, at the expense of the many.
The majority is forced to support the minority through the extraction of considerable
portions of their incomes with no recourse to control the expenditure of these moneys.
But, since the United States, in principal, is a representative democracy, its citizens can, if
they wish, use the prevailing political process to elect representatives who will voice the will of
the majority.
In 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States by approximately one
quarter of the citizens eligible to vote. Many other government officials have been elected with
far less votes.
What happens in City Hall, in Salem, in Washington, concerns you. It is the quality of your
life which is being affected. It is your money which is being spent on bombs and prisons.
Vote on May 15 for the candidate of your choice.
bow Coalition we will stand out politically.
Jackson is no doubt taking considerable
flack for his position on Lesbian/Gay Rights
from his more traditional supporters. Yet, he
knows it is the right new direction and will
follow it
Compassion is an important quality in a
candidate. Jesse Jackson has lived and sur­
vived rejection by the larger society. He
knows what it is like to be held back for being
who you are.
Jackson is a person of action. While others
were talking about freeing L l Goodman from
a Syrian prison, he did it! Jackson is willing to
take risks for peace.
April 25, 1984 is the last day you can
change political parties in Oregon. You must
be a registered Democrat in order to vote for
Jesse Jackson.
Think about the advice of Eugene Debs, a
great labor leader early in this century: "I’d
rather vote for someone I want and not get it
than vote for someone I don’t want and get it"
Get it!!
In unity,
Richard L Pastega,
Klamath County Jesse Jackson
for President Committee
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