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!

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Comment by jillles
2006-07-21 13:46:13

You can find the write up of the story on the News 8 site.

http://wroctv.com/news/story.asp?id=23852&r=l

 
Comment by TomT
2006-07-21 17:50:55

Jill, I added in the link to the write-up. Thanks.

 
2006-07-25 20:32:08

[...] This is big news, the biggest news we’ve reported in the brief history of this blog (with all due respect to optimusprime’s one man protest): Randy Kuhl has accepted Eric Massa’s longstanding challenge to debate. While the details remain open, the Massa campaign is hoping for a series of 8 debates (one in each of the 8 counties the comprise the 29th district), two of which will be televised. [...]

 
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