[lit-ideas] Re: Anscombe Society threats
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:50:07 +0900
Just out of curiosity, how do you respond to this stuff?
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=ja-jp&q=Firefighters+Giulliani&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Or the argument in Freakonomics that RG got a demographic lucky break in the
form of lower crime rates that had zip to do with his policies?
Inquiring minds want to know.
John
On Dec 18, 2007 3:51 PM, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>Any thoughts on the current Mr. Mayor?
>
> Okay, here's a real situation. Empirical results. You can't get any more
> real. Someone in my family had an emergency, I wrote to every elected
> official I could find, an E-mail marked "URGENT." Here are the results:
>
> NYC City Controller: responded quickly and helped.
>
> Mayor Bloomberg: Never responded. Never helped. Thanks, Mike.
>
> Governor Pataki: responded after one week with a form letter.
>
> Congresswomen Carol Maloney (Dem-NY): responded immediately, gave me the
> number of her assistant, called him, helped a lot, and solved the problem.
>
> Hillary Clinton: responded five months later with a useless form letter.
>
>
> Politics in action. I rest my case.
>
> Eric
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
> digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
>
--
John McCreery
The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN
Tel. +81-45-314-9324
http://www.wordworks.jp/
Other related posts:
