Phone Firm’s Offer: Dialing for Hollers
A San Francisco phone company Monday offered its 50,000 subscribers a free call to White House Chief of Staff James A. Baker III to urge him to “halt the Republican Party’s attacks on gays and lesbians.”
A spokeswoman for Working Assets Long Distance said there were signs that the offer had triggered “numerous” calls--perhaps hundreds--but the White House was mum on the number.
Working Assets donates 1% of customers’ charges to environmental, human rights, peace and “economic justice” causes.
The firm accused Vice President Dan Quayle and Republicans Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson of attacking homosexuals during the Republican National Convention and afterward.
Quayle has said he believes that homosexuality is “more of a choice than a biological situation” and added: “It is a wrong choice.”
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