NEWS RELEASE
18 APRIL 1991 Vermont group scores President Bush's choice of national
health model, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Demands That Snelling Refuse To Meet Schwarzenegger
BURLINGTON -- A group of northern Vermont parents and concerned citizens have asked
Governor Snelling to cancel his meeting with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chairman of the
President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, during his visit to the state, Monday,
April 22.
In their letter of April 18 addressed to the Governor, they claim that Schwarzenegger
"epitomizes violence as THE solution to violence." Citing the number of violent
acts in one hour of his many films, the letter continues that "Schwarzenegger
personifies, even glorifies, the grossest brutality and viciousness, surely the most
flagrant disavowal of the moral behavior and reason taught in our schools and places of
worship."
Quoting the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which provides
that all humans are "endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one
another in a spirit of brotherhood...," the letter concludes by expressing confidence
that the Governor "will respect both your official mandate as well as this expression
of our will as citizens and fellow humans by not consenting to meet with the Bush
administration's ill choice: Mr. Schwarzennegger" (Letter appended).
The letter is signed by Ellen Kahler, Peace & Justice Coalition; Andy Christiansen,
State Representative; Chris Wood, Vermont Resources Cooperative; Mary Beth Casiero, Center
for World Education; the Women Helping Battered Women Collective; Peggy Luhrs, Burlington
Women's Council; Sandy Baird, lawyer; and Robin Lloyd, publisher, Toward Freedom.
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