Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 07:16:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: A Jay Eddy <ajayeddy@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us>
Subject: Re: UnOfficial Account -TX- LogCabin vs GOP -Todays Hearing!!! (fwd)

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In a message dated 96-06-07 12:47:22 EDT, Steve Labinski  writes:

>LCR/Texas Members & Supporters:
>
>Today's hearing went very well!  Log Cabin achieved everything it set out to

>accomplish during this preliminary hearing.  In the courtroom, when the 
>judge got to the Log Cabin issue in the docket, he requested to see counsel 
>in his chambers.  They spent about 15 minutes in there.  Afterwards, both 
>parties emerged and made statements to the press.
>
>Dale Carpenter, President of Log Cabin Republicans of Texas stated that the 
>Republican Party of Texas has agreed to not to assign our designated booth 
>pending the outcome of the official court hearing next Friday in Austin.  
>They also agreed that if so ordered, they would place the Log Cabin/Texas 
>advertisement in the program as a full page insert pending the outcome of 
>the official court hearing next Friday in Austin.  Therefore, we do not have

>to worry about a printing deadline for the program.
>
>Afterwards, the spokesman for the Texas Republican Party, Mr. Lester Van 
>Pelt III made statements to the press on the GOP's position.  He first 
>distributed a paper to the media stating that the Texas GOP questions why 
>Democratic State Representative Glen Maxey reserved the committee room in 
>the Texas State Capital Building for the Log Cabin Republicans press 
>conference last week.  He then suggested that it is liberal Democrats who 
>are trying to sabotage the Texas Republican Party and its state convention.
>
>One reporter asked Van Pelt if the GOP will negotiate with Log Cabin in 
>"good faith" at the next hearing.  Van Pelt simply responded that the GOP 
>will negotiate under the terms of the law, complying with a court ordered 
>mediation.  Van Pelt refused to speculate on the mediation because it is a 
>confidential issue.
>
>After Lester Van Pelt III made his statements, Dale Carpenter responded that

>Log Cabin members are in fact Republicans and that the party is continuing 
>to avoid engaging Log Cabin intellectually with its arguments, and only 
>making false allogations.  He then reiterated his personal experience with 
>the Republican Party starting with stuffing envelopes for the Reagan 
>presidential campaign in 1980.
>
>This account is from memory, and not an official LCR press release.  
>
>Regards,
>Steve Labinski
>Log Cabin Republicans of Austin
>President
>
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