one man protest gets major local coverage
Our very own optimusprime staged a one man demonstration outside of Randy Kuhl’s Fairport office to protest the Congressmen’s decision to vote against the stem cell research bill. Three local stations picked it up. Channel 8 did an extended piece on stem cell research that featured a lot of the one man demonstration. Here’s the video and here’s a write-up.
We’ll have more up about this later. In the meantime, let’s hear it for optimusprime. He’s singlehandedly publicized an important issue that much of the local media had been ignoring!
Well said.
You can find the write up of the story on the News 8 site.
http://wroctv.com/news/story.asp?id=23852&r=l
Jill, I added in the link to the write-up. Thanks.
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