A Celtic fan in Congress?

[Steve Ouellette]

We already get enough arguments over basketball ... if we start to open up the gates to politics and, say, religion, the list could quickly become unbearable. I enjoy and welcome his Celtics contributions, but the line has to be drawn somewhere. What happens when I ask members to join my "Impeach Bush" pool party or donate to Planned Parenthood?

Steve O



---- Eric Albert <Eric at ericalbert.net> wrote: 
> 
> >No offense, but I think soliciting for a political campaign is way out of line for this list.
> >
> >Steve O
> 
> I respectfully disagree.  It's certainly off-topic, and I think it's great how this list
> manages to stay so on-topic.
> 
> But the poster *is* a real Celtics fan who's posted a bunch of on-topic messages.
> In my mind, that gives him leeway to post a personal message every couple of years.
> I like hearing what people are doing in their outside lives, and that includes politics and
> business.  If regular posters posted about this kind of stuff *occasionally*, it wouldn't
> overburden the list.
> 
> I don't have strong feelings about this, though, and I have liked how this list is
> all-basketball, all the time.
> 
> -- Eric
> 
> P.S.  I thought dragging in Red Auerbach was clever.
> 
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