Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 09:00:10 -0500 (EST)
From: David Casti <disc@casti.com>
Subject: FOLLOWUP: Dallas City Council

Hi folks,

Just for the record, we now have more than 750 members of the 
action-alert list, and more joining every day.  Tell your friends and 
neighbors: electronic activism WORKS!

David.

Submitted by: Wynn Wagner III <ww3@global.org>

For the second time, the Dallas city council has voted to outlaw
discrimination against gays and lesbians for municipal hiring.

They passed the same ordinance two weeks ago, but there were problems
with the Texas Open Meetings law.  The wrong kind of public notice
was posted two weeks ago.

Now, the ordinance is legal.

Apparently folks here in cyberspace really kep the FAX machines busy at City
Hall.  In some Town Hall meetings, supportive council members brought stacks
of FAXs and read some from Oregon and Los Angeles and Boston and on and on.

During the council meeting, the mayor said he planned to limit debate on the
issue.  He said because of the large number of phone calls and FAXs, the
council had a really good idea of the issues.

He used the term "deluge" when he mentioned FAXs.  :-)

Bravo.