Local Dems upset with GOP-sponsored survey
Augusta Free Press
February 18, 2005
By Chris Graham
Former Harrisonburg mayor Joe Fitzgerald obviously didn’t give the computer the response that it wanted.
Answering his phone one night last week, Fitzgerald, the former chairman of the Harrisonburg Democratic Committee, was asked by a computer-generated interviewer whether or not he supports the existence of clubs that promote sexual behavior in public schools.
The question seemed clearly to be referring to the ongoing matter regarding the establishment of a Gay-Straight Alliance chapter at Harrisonburg High School earlier in the current school year, he thought in an instant.