"Gini52" wrote in message
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In article , AZ Astrea says...

Just heard on the news they pulled another "round-up of dead beat
parents"
here in Tucson. They named it "Operation Child-support". Channel 4
news
reported all the standard "politically correct" bull**** and used the
term
"dead beat parents". I guess that's more 'correct' than dead beat dads
but
no matter what, the reality is that out of the 21 people still sitting in
jail as of this evening, (the "round-up" was at 5am), there is *one*
woman.
The token woman.

I'm writing an e-mail to Channel 4 (www.kvoa.com) , hoping to enlighten
them
a little as to the reality of dead-broke dads. I can't find the story on
their website yet. They just aired it so maybe it's not on it yet.

With all the talented writers and ranters we have here I'm hoping we can
all
send them a bit of enlightening e-mail. Who knows? Maybe somebody will
be
listening?
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Ya know, I've been wanting to do this for years and never seem to find the
time/motivation (I confess). You are right--We do need a bevy of
well-written
editable(?)letters posted here that could be sent to various media
/government
outlets. Umm...Kenneth? :-)
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I agree. I have started and stopped over and over a 'standardized' letter
that could be used for that purpose but I am not as good a writer as many
here. I receive the ACLU action alerts that are letters about various
subjects that I can add comments to and then I send it to my Congressmen via
fax or e-mail. These letters are well written, they don't sound like
ranting and raving yet they get the point across very well. If you want to
see some examples go to the ACLU website at www.aclu.org and check them out.
Can anybody here write a right-to-the-point type letter without using the
terms propaganda or nazis? I couldn't.

I'll post a copy of the e-mail I sent.

~AZ~
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~AZ~