NPR funding petition...
Mike Kuhn
The following is a petition about NPR funding. You may participate or
disregard. Thank you. Sandy
For anyone who thinks NPR/PBS is a worthwhile expenditure of
$1.12/year of their taxes (as opposed to, say, Newt
Gingrich's salary?), petition follows. If you sign, please
forward on to others (not back to me). If not, please don't
kill it -- send it to the email address listed here:
wein...@blue.univnorthco.edu
PBS, NPR (National Public Radio), and the arts are facing
major cutbacks in funding. In spite of the efforts of each
station to reduce spending costs and streamline their
services, government officials believe that the funding
currently going to these programs is too large a portion of
funding for something which is seen as "unworthwhile".
Currently, taxes from the general public for PBS equal $1.12
per person per year, and the National Endowment for the Arts
equals $.64 a year in total. A January 1995 CNN/USA
Today/Gallup poll indicated that 76% of Americans wish to keep
funding for PBS, third only to national defense and law
enforcement as the most valuable programs for federal funding.
Each year, the Senate and House Appropriations committees
each have 13 subcommittees with jurisdiction over many
programs and agencies. Each subcommittee passes its own
appropriation bill. The goal each year is to have each bill
signed by the beginning of the fiscal year, which is October
1. In the instance of the Corporation of Public
Broadcasting, the bill determines the funding for the next
three years. When this issue comes up in 1996, the funding
will be determined for fiscal years 1996-1998.
The only way that our representatives can be aware of the
base of support for PBS and funding for these types of
programs is by making our voices heard.
Please add your name to this list and forward it to friends
if you believe in what we stand for.
This list will be forwarded to the President of the United
States, the Vice President of the United States, and
Representative Newt Gingrich, who is the instigator of the
action to cut funding to these worthwhile programs.
If you happen to be the 50th, 100th, 150th, etc. signer of this
petition, please forward a copy to
wein...@blue.univnorthco.edu. If that address is inoperative,
please send it to kubi...@blue.univnorthco.edu. This way we
can keep track of the lists and organize them. Forward this to
everyone you know, and help us to keep these programs alive.
Thank you.
1) Elizabeth Weinert, student, University of Northern Colorado,
Greeley, Colorado.
2) Robert M. Penn.; San Francisco, CA
3) Gregory S. Williamson, San Francisco, CA
4) Daniel C. Knightly, Austin, TX
5) Andrew H. Knightly, Los Angeles, CA
6) Aaron C. Yeater, Somerville, MA
7) Tobie M. Cornejo, Washington, DC
8) John T. Mason, Dalton, MA
9) Eric W. Fish, Williamstown, MA
10) Courtney E. Estill, Hamilton College, NY
11) Vanessa Moore, Northfield, MN
12) Lynne Raschke, Haverford College, PA (originally Minnesota)
13) Deborah Bielak, Haverford, PA
14) Morgan Lloyd, Haverford, PA 19041
15) Galen Lloyd, Goucher College, MD
16) Brian Eastwood, University of Vermont, VT
17) Elif Batuman, Harvard University, MA
18) Kohar Jones, Yale University, CT
19) Claudia Brittenham, Yale University, CT
20) Alexandra Block, Yale University, CT
21) Susanna Chu, Yale University, CT
22) Michelle Chen, Harvard University, MA
23) Jessica Hammer, Harvard University, MA
24) Ann Pettigrew, Haverford College, PA
25) Kirstin Knox, Swarthmore College, PA
26) Jason Adler, Swarthmore College, PA
27) Daniel Gottlieb, Swarthmore College (but truly from Lawrence, KS)
28) Josh Feltman, Tufts University, MA
29) Louise Forrest, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA
30) HongSup Park, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA
(originally from Portage, Wisconsin)
31) Ana Sandoval,Massachusetts Institute of Technology
32) Katherine Navarrete, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
33) Mandisa Washington, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
34) Stephen Balzac, San Francisco, CA
35) Howard Yermish, Los Angeles, CA
36) Danielle Yermish, Los Angeles, CA
37) David S. Lefkowitz, University of California - Los Angeles
38) Frank S. Albinder, San Francisco, CA
39) Read S. Sherman, Harvard Divinity School
40) Stephane Lemelin, Cambridge, MA
41) Thomas Ouellette, Cambidge, MA
42) Richard Russell, Cambridge, MA
43) Nella Wennberg, Jamaica Plain, MA
44) Eric Smith, Jamaica Plain, MA
45) Alex Graham, Boston, MA
46) Dean Wei, Chicago, IL
47) Luisita Frances, Chicago, IL
48) Roy Vella, Stanford, CA
49) Alan Hellawell, Mountain View, CA
50) Timothy A. Scott, San Francisco, CA
51) Albert M. Yeh, Mountain View, CA
52) Susan Yeh, Seattle, WA
53) Jonathan Payne, Seattle, WA
54) Cena Pohl, Seattle, WA
55) David Perk, Seattle, WA
56) Robert Srygley, Seattle WA
57) Katarzyna S. Kubzdela, Chicago, IL
58) Katy Human, Stanford, CA
59) Erica Fleishman, Reno, NV
60) C. Richard Tracy, Reno, NV
61) Kenneth E. Nussear, Reno, NV
62) Christopher R. Tracy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
63) Kristin Komives, Carrboro, NC
64) Jennifer Goldman, Chapel Hill, NC
65) Darcy Leach, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
66) Van Luong, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
67) Aurora M. Sherman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
68) Paul O. Stern, Seattle, WA
69) Erika Tapman, U. of Vermont College of Medicine
70) Opher Donchin, Urbana, IL
71) Prof. Pamela Cosman, University of California, San Diego
72) Ari Levitt, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
73) Nathan Martin, Berkeley, California
74) Lynn Price, Kensington, California
75) Leslie Shown, Kensiongton, CA
76) Mike Boals, Berkeley, CA
77) Wendy Boals, Berkeley, CA
78) Effie Westervelt, Tiburon, CA
79) Mary Burns, Taos, NM
80) Karen Page, New York, NY (karen...@aol.com)
81) Gary Holleman, Bemidji, MN (holl...@chefnet.com)
82) Tim Rosa, Newton, MA (tr...@world.std.com)
83) Doug Hersh, Sherborn MA (he...@ultranet.com)
84) Ruel Little, Somerville, MA (rli...@ascensiontech.com)
85) Stefan Wennik, Andover, MA (SWe...@aol.com)
86) Melissa Walia, SF, CA (co...@well.com)
87) Tracy Brown, SF, CA (tr...@nrh.com)
88) John T. Miller, SF, CA (joh...@dnai.com)
89) M. Todd Davis, SF, CA (todd_...@gensler.com)
90) Michael Demetrios, SF, CA
91) J. Marc Perrin, NY, NY (mpe...@sbi.com)
92) Alyse Daberko, NY, NY (adab...@sbi.com)
93) Jessica Guertin, Washington Univ. St. Louis (j...@cec.wustl.edu)
94) Ellen Watson, San Francisco, CA
95) Bridgitt Arnold, Seattle, WA
96) Erica Yenni, Seattle, WA
97) Kerri Karvetski, Seattle, WA (70007...@compuserve.com)
98) Mark Butler, Seattle, WA
99) lazlow jones, long beach, ny laz...@undernet.com
100) Laura Bykowski, NYC, NY lau...@gbcom.com
101) Amy Stettler, NYC, NY Zio...@AOL.com
102) F Ben Dana, Burlington, Vermont
103) Bill Dahill-Baue, Brattleboro, VT
104) S. Ryan Quick, Yale University, New Haven, CT
105) Jerry Anne Dickel, Yale University, New Haven, CT
106) Donald Beebe, Yale University, New Haven, CT
107) Stephanie Seery, School of Theology at Claremont, CA
108) Katherine A. Johnson, Baltimore, MD
109) Cynthia J. Halstead, Burke, VA
110) Ronald Northrip, Falls Church, VA ron...@clark.net
111) Jane Levandoski, University of Delaware, DE
112) Denise J. Hills, University of Delaware, DE
113) David P. Sobel, College of William & Mary, VA
114) Amey T. Sadler, College of William& Mary, VA
115) Donna M. Livingston, Woodbridge, VA
116) Karen A. Morris, Burke, VA
117) Michael E. Perdue Atlanta, GA
118) David Cour, Washington D.C.
119) Katie Sergent, Washington D.C.
120) Nathan Sewell, Nashville, TN
121) Peter Eby, Nashville, TN
122) jeff taraday, seattle, WA
123) Julie Taraday, Seattle, WA>
124) Stephanie Cooper, Seattle WA
125) Kailen Mooney, Seattle, WA
126) Dylan Clark, Univ. of WA, Anthropology, Seattle 98195
127) Daniel Simons, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
128) Peter Anderson, University of Washington, Seattle
129) Rob Perry, Tampa, FL
130) Karen Davis, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
131) April Severson Portland,Oregon
132) Jill Karsten, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii
133) Khalil J. Spencer, Honolulu, Hawaii
134) Charles H. Miller, Honolulu, Hawaii 21*19'10" N 157*49'45" W
135) Ed Ketz, Honolulu, Hawaii (ke...@pulua.hcc.hawaii.ed
136) Linda R. Thompson, Harding Univ., Searcy, AR ltho...@harding.edu>
137) Dayl L . Scherich, University of Arkansas <dsch...@comp.uark.edu
138) Randolph L. Mowry, New York University <mo...@is.nyu.edu>
139) Elliot M. Austin, New York University <aus...@is3.nyu.edu>
140) Ro Conforti, New York University, NY, NY
141) Kelly Otter, New York University, NYC <ot...@is3.nyu.edu>
142) Janet F. Davidson, NYU, NYC <jfd...@is.nyu.edu>
143) Joanne K. Griffin, New York University, NY, NY
144) Dona J. Lethbridge, University of Alabama in Huntsville
145) Thomas A. Moss, Huntsville, Alabama <tam...@ingr.com>
146) William S. Frantz, Los Gatos, California <fra...@netcom.com>
147) Arrita Peri Frantz, Los Gatos, California, <apfr...@apple.com>
148) Kim Coleman, Santa Clara, CA <kac...@aol.com>
149) Ray Umphreys, Cary, NC
150) Bonnie Umphreys, Cary, NC 7464...@compuserve.com
151) Sherwin Gooch, Sunnyvale, CA 94087
152) Gordon Garb, Sunnyvale, CA gg...@apple.com
153) Tom McMahon, Williams Bay, WI mcm...@yerkes.uchicago.edu
154) Dan Herzfeldt, Pleasanton, CA dan.he...@wj.com
155) Nick Scalero, Mountain View, CA nick.s...@cellnet.com
156) Terri van de Sande, Mountain View, Ca
vande...@applelink.apple.com
157) Angela Suraci, San Francisco, CA sur...@applelink.apple.com
158) Kim Apathy, Los Altos, CA apa...@applelink.apple.com
159) Colm Lysaght, Sunnyvale, CA
160) Gern, Seattle, WA
161) Debbie Frederickson, Kirkland, WA
162) John Hedtke, Seattle, WA, jhe...@oz.net
163) Sandy Bradley, Seattle, WA, sa...@potluck.com
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Tom McMahon
University of Chicago
Yerkes Observatory
Betsy Schwartz
NONONO!
This petition is DEAD. The founders are asking people not to send
it anymore!
Another urban legend in the making...
Notice that this petition has no DATE...
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Sunny
Mike Kuhn wrote:
>
> The following is a petition about NPR funding. You may participate or
> disregard. Thank you. Sandy
The women who started this have issued a retraction and have you all to PLEASE disregard
this poating. It is not effective without signatures and voters addresses, and is clogging up
bandwidth something awful. The best thing to do about this is to please find out your
congressperson's snailmail address and mail them a letter expressing the sentiment in the
petition.
An excellent source of mail addresses can be found at
<http://www.uroulette.com:8000/cgi-bin/comrand?830892588>
The House of Representatives Directory
Email addresses are found at
<http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html>
Thanks!
Jane Thompson