Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:18:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ronald E. Garcia
Subject: Letter to the Editor
Dear James Landrith,
I’m a little confused and disappointed, and I was wondering if you could help me out. Two questions:
1-Why do you have a hotmail e-mail? Is the multiracial e-mail not good enough for you to use? I was hoping to make it my first e-mail and to actively publicize your web site, but I’m somewhat perplexed about this issue.
2-What’s the deal about putting out all those right-wing parties on your state links and not having a single link to the Green Party, the New Party, the Labor Party, the Socialist Party? Are you all of right wing orientation? Do you not realize that the parties that you publizice are the most biggoted, racist, and oppresive parties in this country?
Sincerely,
Ron Garcia-Fogarty
Editor: First, you said, “Is the multiracial e-mail not good enough for you to use?” I have been using my hotmail addresses for five years. I am known by those addresses by thousands of activists, media types and government officials. It is in too many address books worldwide. Why change now?
I added the multiracial email to my site (long after I launched my site) as a means of giving those who want an extra email address or a new one a way to get it. Free. It’s not about it being “not good enough.” What exactly does that mean? I don’t make any money off it.
I’m. Giving. It. To. You. That’s all.
Next you claim I only link to right wing parties. Huh? I link to the Democrats. They aren’t rightwing. I link to the Natural Law Party. They aren’t rightwing. I’ve linked to The New Party national and state/local organizations since August 1997. Check the state links again, you missed ’em. I got my links to the NP chapters from this url, http://www.newparty.org/chapters.html. As you can see if you visit it, The New Party doesn’t have a chapter in every state. To expect me to link to a chapter that doesn’t exist is totally ridiculous. I link to those chapters listed on that page.
I didn’t link to the Green Party in the state links because when I set them up, the Green Party website was in constant crash mode and I couldn’t get access to the state links. I will now add them.
Parties TMA links to by ideology, since you brought it up, just for the record:
Ideology – Rightwing: Republican, Constitution Party (formerly U.S. Taxpayers Party, now I have to fix the links) – That’s 2 on the right.
Ideology – Leftwing: Democrat, The New Party, Greens/Labour (on the UK page), The New Party, Natural Law Party – 6 (When I add the U.S. Greens, the number will be 7)
Ideology – Individualist/Objectivist/Libertarian: Libertarian Party – 1
Ideology – Muddled: Reform Party – 1
Seems that the Leftwing clearly has the upper hand in the links section.