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  From: Asma Chandani <asc2106@columbia.edu>
  To  : <cpc@emoglen.law.columbia.edu>
  Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 20:58:23 -0400

RE: California, here I come

Responding to Jonah:


Maybe as a California native you might have some insight into how people

there seem to more knowledgeable and motivated about these issues than
we 
are.  Do you think it is related to the concentration of companies in
the 
technology sector there?  Generally more libertarian attitudes?
Something in 
the water?

D. ALL OF THE ABOVE. My personal take on it is that people there are
just nicer. More inclined to care about the plight of others. Out there
in the West, we have the liberty of imagining up utopias or something.
:)


 
Really, I have little insight into the wrangling between the state and 
federal govt in terms of this kind of tug-of-war.  I am not sure what it

means, legislatively or politically, for California to preempt a federal

initiative with a move like this. 

I think Californians mainly care about Californians. I'm not a
politician, but I imagine that big business doesn't motivate their
legislative initiatives nearly as much as small business does. 



But beyond that, I want to understand 
better how they make that happen over there, and what we can do to make 
similar things happen here.  I imagine that North-Eastern postmodern
apathy 
and aloofness, and the financial and corporate interests that dominate
the 
economy here being a factor, but this is just speculation.




Warm sunshine and wonderful produce maybe. :)  ~Asma 





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