The article is long, but well worth reading.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/s...=2011-01-11-17-41-59
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quote:The effort was capped by a letter the pair sent last May to all 100 members of the Senate, 435 members of the House of Representatives and 50 state governors. It asked them to sign a 32-word pledge to treat their opponents with basic respect. DeMoss is a realist. He expected to collect 50 to 75, a jumping-off point to push others to join.
He got lots of comments from people who heard about the effort, many thanking him for taking it on. But he says about half the e-mails he received on the subject were critical, some full of vitriol accusing him of trying to limit free speech or force people to surrender their personal convictions. And just three members of Congress - House Republicans Frank Wolf of Virginia and Sue Myrick of North Carolina and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut independent who votes with the Democrats - signed on.
It is completely appalling that he got only 3 pledges. This is way more disturbing for politics than the lone wolf gunman in Arizona.