Kinda cool - Wendell Anderson's State of the State Address - 01-03-73

[Morning Dew]

http://www.leg.state.mn.us/docs/pre2003/other/I691.pdf

snippets
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Everyone of us who has ever campaigned
knows that there is a deadly cancer infecting our free
election system -- the way we are forced to finance our
political campaigns.


Finally, the people's right to know is not
guaranteed by the openness of government alone. These
times also demand that we take steps in Minnesota to protect
reporters from intimidation by government in carrying on their
legitimate work

A number of newsmen are now in jail around the
country for refusing to reveal confidential sources. I
regret that the pressure seems to be increasing.
Reporters are being prosecuted not because they
are irresponsible, but precisely because they have been
responsible to their basic function of publishing the truth.
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He also touches on Equal Rights for women and minorities and people with disabilities.

Good stuff.

[dflprincess]

1. The way we were..

:cry:

[Morning Dew]

2. Minnesota used to lead the way but not anymore.

Especially the last 8 years.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. The state I came back to in 2003 is not the same state I left

in 1984.

It has a lot more mean and selfish people than it used to.