POLISCI 201 Lecture 6: Interest Groups and Milk, the film 3:01:12
20 Apr 2016
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Why interest groups are common in the us. Political parties are weak so interests work directly on government. Moved to san francisco and opens a camera store. Wanted to buy alcohol, but was not allowed, owner did not want to sell to a gay man. He began forming the group by attempting to gain allies. Coors beer was a controversial product, owner was against unions. Milk did not start off his career with politics in mind. He reached out to labor unions (who in the passed are generally not sympathetic towards gay rights: milk showed the labor union that he had some power, and the next election people took him more seriously. The compromise: he told dan white that he would vote against a psychiatric hospital in the district. He built unions, organize boycotts, created a fake rally the big battle he faced was a proposition to remove the ban of gay people working in schools.
