YellowSub1962
05-03-2001, 09:57 AM
<font color="yellow">Below is an alert I got this morning (5-03-01) from the SDOR online newsletter alert list. I found the actual letter on UT's website http://uniontrib.com/news/uniontrib/thu/index.html with a bit of searching. It's in the opinions section, in the letters to the editor section.
DO NOT WRITE ANY LETTERS JUST TO VENT OR CALL NAMES!!! I'm sure this is the response the paper is trying to provoke, they have a history of these types of "mainstream opinions". I will be posting my letter within the next couple of days, when I get time to write one. If you need some ideas you can plagerize my letter, but it would have more of an impact if everyone wrote their own. Don't worry about "not living in SD, this article appeared online, so you can live anywhere that has internet access to read it <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">. Again, please think your letters out before you send them...
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San Diego Off Road On-Line - http://www.sandiegooffroad.com/infohome.html
FLASH!
At first glance this seems to be a surprisingly favorable letter (see below) that appears in today's (May 3, 2001) San Diego Union Tribune. But once read completely you realize once again off roaders are being bashed in the mainstream media. Apparently, we also aren't allowed to drive on the highways either, according to this letter writer.
Read this letter and then send your own well thought-out, polite but firm letter to the editor defending our sport. You can write to the UT at letters@uniontrib.com Send a cc to editor@sandiegooffroad.com so we know what kind of feedback they get and can compare with what they actually print.
Sherri Kukla
Editor/San Diego Off Road Magazine www.sandiegooffroad.com/infohome.html (http://www.sandiegooffroad.com/infohome.html)
Off-Road Coalition showed its colors in parade
The Lakeside Western Days Parade had all the trappings of a small town parade: school bands, 4H clubs and the usual political figures, community groups, old cars and horse units.
The San Diego Off-Road Coalition boasted of being the largest entry. It sure was. There were row upon row of dune buggies, off-road trucks and dirt bikes. The bikers raced up and down the parade route, in and out of their groups -- spewing noise and exhaust fumes.
One could not help but think that the San Diego Off-Road Coalition was attempting to send a political message regarding sharing the public land. How much sharing is there on Interstate 8 on a Sunday afternoon as the off-roaders head home? As a desert property owner, I am well aware of off-roaders "sharing" my property without my permission. The group's misguided attempt to gain friends failed.
SALLY KLOMAN
Lakeside
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DO NOT WRITE ANY LETTERS JUST TO VENT OR CALL NAMES!!! I'm sure this is the response the paper is trying to provoke, they have a history of these types of "mainstream opinions". I will be posting my letter within the next couple of days, when I get time to write one. If you need some ideas you can plagerize my letter, but it would have more of an impact if everyone wrote their own. Don't worry about "not living in SD, this article appeared online, so you can live anywhere that has internet access to read it <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">. Again, please think your letters out before you send them...
PSD</font c>
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San Diego Off Road On-Line - http://www.sandiegooffroad.com/infohome.html
FLASH!
At first glance this seems to be a surprisingly favorable letter (see below) that appears in today's (May 3, 2001) San Diego Union Tribune. But once read completely you realize once again off roaders are being bashed in the mainstream media. Apparently, we also aren't allowed to drive on the highways either, according to this letter writer.
Read this letter and then send your own well thought-out, polite but firm letter to the editor defending our sport. You can write to the UT at letters@uniontrib.com Send a cc to editor@sandiegooffroad.com so we know what kind of feedback they get and can compare with what they actually print.
Sherri Kukla
Editor/San Diego Off Road Magazine www.sandiegooffroad.com/infohome.html (http://www.sandiegooffroad.com/infohome.html)
Off-Road Coalition showed its colors in parade
The Lakeside Western Days Parade had all the trappings of a small town parade: school bands, 4H clubs and the usual political figures, community groups, old cars and horse units.
The San Diego Off-Road Coalition boasted of being the largest entry. It sure was. There were row upon row of dune buggies, off-road trucks and dirt bikes. The bikers raced up and down the parade route, in and out of their groups -- spewing noise and exhaust fumes.
One could not help but think that the San Diego Off-Road Coalition was attempting to send a political message regarding sharing the public land. How much sharing is there on Interstate 8 on a Sunday afternoon as the off-roaders head home? As a desert property owner, I am well aware of off-roaders "sharing" my property without my permission. The group's misguided attempt to gain friends failed.
SALLY KLOMAN
Lakeside
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