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Zaleskas goes on to ridicule Harmon and the club for "deciding not to endorse" Silber. She asks if "Massachusetts voters are not intellectual enough for the Harvard-Radcliffe Democrats" and cites Democratic National Committee Chair Ron Brown's and Gov. Michael S. Dukakis's endorsements as evidence that the club had not good reason not to endorse the candidate...
...fact is--and Zaleskas would also know this if she had read the Crimson article discussing the issue--that the club is not actively working for Silber (it was the Crimson reporter, not Harmon who used the word "endorsing") because there was not a single member who wanted to organize the effort...
Being the responsible leader of the Democratic organization, Harmon merely reported this fact to The Crimson when a reporter asked. If there had been a single member willing to work for Silber, then the Crimson article never would have happened...
When Colin V. Gallagher '91, who had also never been to a club meeting, started his Students for Silber organization (I guess Zaleskas missed that meeting, too,) Harmon went out of his way to ask him to join the club. Gallagher refused...
...someone like Zaleskas had been there from the beginning, none of this would have been an issue. She could have led the charge for Silber. She could have argued the Silber case to the Harvard campus. But, alas, she must have been too busy doing other things. Witty Crimson articles such as hers sure take a lot of time...