XPost: alt.culture.us.southwest, nm.general   
   From: sundogger@zianet.com   
      
   Save the Fort wrote:   
   > NM Congressman Steve Pearce has requested letters in support   
   > of the preservation of historic Ft Stanton, NM. This   
   > important frontier post encompasses some of the most   
   > scenic land in South Central New Mexico. The State of   
   > New Mexico wants to sell off this historic military post to   
   > private interests. If that comes to pass, you can be   
   > assured it will be turned into yet another housing   
   > development. I am putting the following letter in the mail   
   > today and hope others will spare the few minutes it   
   > takes to do likewise:   
   >   
   > (your letterhead here)   
   >   
   > Congressman Steve Pearce   
   > 1408 Longworth House Office Building   
   > Washington, DC  20515   
   >   
   > Attention: Ricardo Bernal   
   >   
   > Subject: Fort Stanton, New Mexico Preservation   
   >   
   > Please add my name to those who wish to see the Fort Stanton properties   
   > remain in the public domain and preserved as a historical park.   
   >   
   > Thank you for your efforts in this regard.   
   >   
   > (sign your name here)   
   >   
   Yeah - I'll go along with you - I live not too far from that old fort,   
   and it and the surrounding land should be protected...  Beautiful   
   country, it is - and too many people are fast discovering that, so I'm   
   all for it - as long as it's not overly pork-ish in rescuing it...   
      
   I am NOT a fan of Pearce - did not vote for him - and I plan to campaign   
     against him in his next re-election - I did NOT appreciate his   
   appearence at the "Mulligans & Margaritas" of golfing and a wine & dine   
   weekend affair at the Phoenix Biltmore Hotel, a few weeks back - rubbing   
   shoulders with the most powerful oil and energy lobbiests in the   
   country, there to buy and sell the politicians at a $3000-a-plate   
   Republican fundraiser... I know he comes from Hobbs oil - but - he   
   supposed to work for us - not the lobbiests...   
      
   He's a man that has been consistant with the pork-spending of Congress   
   and had voted straight down the GOP line - siding with the higharchy of   
   the Republican Party who have held this party captive from actual   
   democratic process of open debate and policy changes - OTHER than what   
   benifits a small cabal - for at least the last 15 to 20+ years... Other   
   than just a very few exceptions, the Republicans have rarely debated   
   differences of ideas and opinions with their respective members - and   
   are towing the line to keep that all-important purpose of office in   
   mind.. To make sure that they get re-elected, over and over - and their   
   higharchy controls the purse-strings to the campaign coffers - The needs   
   of the country come second to this.. And Pearce is now part of this   
   machine - and he shows it by his voting record - and who he's chummy with!   
      
   Ok, so he'll throw us a bone and give us a benign offering of Ft.   
   Stanton - I'll bite - I'll copy your letter and email it along to him..   
   It won't be the first one I've sent him... Maybe I'll even snail-mail   
   it, this time...   
      
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