Assuming Richard's comments to be true, and I have no reason to believe they are
not, I apologize to everyone on the list for wasting your time.

Richard Zvonar wrote:

> According to a colleague of mine who is very involved in arts funding issues:
>
> "There's no legislation currently pending on NEA or CPB, the federally
> funded quasi-private agency that supports NPR & PBS, as such.  The current
> proposed budget has a tiny cut from the past year's NEA budget and an
> increase for CPB.
>
> "This petition while probably not technically a hoax has been circulating
> since 1995. The 2 e-addresses to which one is directed to forward the
> petitions give no response if you write to them."
>
> I'd like to add that the new director of the NEA was approved by a
> unanimous vote in the Senate.  I'm sorry I don't remember the gentleman's
> name, but he was the founder of the Country Music Foundation in Nashville
> and has a respectable track record in running that organization (among its
> projects is the archiving and restoration of recordings of country and
> related American music).  The appointment of such a person was obviously an
> easier sell than someone from the artistic avant-garde, but I for one am
> inclined not to dismiss this new director out-of-hand. He is reported as
> being in favor of actually INCREASING the amount of the endowment to a
> whopping $2 per year, per U.S. citizen (up from the $1.12 reported in the
> petition).
>
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