Somebody really, really wants Somerville to sell off its Israel bonds - enough to hire a company to gather up people for a focus group on the issue. Blogorelli, who loves her some focus-group action in general ($50 and a free ham sandwich and she's in) reports on a session last night that she'd been told would be about "issues in the Somerville area:"
... The next 90 minutes were some of the most tense I remember in recent months (and note that I am referring to months in which I developed a jaw clench so forceful that my physician wouldn't prescribe Valium for relaxation purposes because the pills "wouldn't be strong enough.") ...
Somerville Divestment Project
Somerville should divest from U.S.
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are you sure?
By Ron Newman
Thu, 09/22/2005 - 2:42pm
It's possible that the focus-group company was hired by an anti-divestment group, rather than by the Divestment Project.
Yeah, could be
By adamg
Thu, 09/22/2005 - 3:01pm
Guess we'd need to hear more about the specific questions being asked.