Article: Dear Friend: Cash or credit?

Michael Ruby

Dear Friend: Cash or credit?

By MICHAEL RUBY

of the Journal Sentinel staff

Sunday, July 2, 2000

My pal Jim Nicholson wrote to me the other day. Jim is chairman of the Republican National Committee, and while I've never actually met him, I know we're buddies because he addressed the letter: "Dear Friend."

Where I come from, we don't use that word lightly. We don't use "friend" lightly, either.

Anyway, Jim got right to the point: "If Al Gore is your choice to be our nation's next president . . . please -- on your honor -- do not open the enclosed OFFICIAL REPUBLICAN PARTY CENSUS DOCUMENT."

Jim likes to shout on paper.

Al Gore is not my choice for president, but neither is George ...

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