McCarthy for President: Steering Committee -- Call for Meeting 3
From Deven Black 8/11/99

Greetings and salutations,

Apparently my last e-mail opened up the floodgates of inquiry, as I spent my most productive minutes of the morning on the phone with someone purporting to be Mosbacher. I say purporting to be because when I applied the acid test that would have certified him (and he certainly is as eligible as any of us for certification) he was not able to tell me for what Mario Procaccino ran and when he might have done it.

Unfortunately I was no more capable of identifying the Procaccino campaigns, though I did invoke the names of Sanford Garelick and Francis F.X. Smith, apparently to no avail.

It is now clear to me that the next undertaking of the Steering Committee should be to mount the archives of the former New York Independent Advocate (nee The McCarthy Advocate) on-line, and I propose a meeting of said Steering Committee, at a yet undetermined time and place in the not very distant future, to discuss how this undertaking might be accomplished.

While it is customary for meetings of the Steering Committee to take place over a meal, or at least a nice cup tea, modern technology has progressed in such a way to allow us to have this proposed meeting by instantly exchanging messages via AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, or some other system of immediate typing. The upside is that we merely have to agree on a time to meet and do not have to also agree on the cuisine to have at hand. The downside is that there is no face time. Then again, that might also be considered an upside...

Therefore, (I had to work one of those in here somewhere) I propose that we meet at a suitable restaurant, with suitability to be defined as one where we do not actually have to wear suits and which has sufficient light so that we may all use laptops to communicate with each other over the internet and sugar packets or some other small non-lethal condiment that we may hurl at each other to punctuate our inevitable typed disagreements.

Do I have a second?

Mr Mosbacher responds 8/10/99
(If you want to know how Mosbacher was able to respond to a message dated a day later, ask Bill Gates.)

Let's not take this technology thing too far. A computer is just a computer, but a good meal among friends is a feast for the soul (or something like that.)