This was in todays SF Chronicle newspaper in the Public Pulse section: "East Bay Assemblyman Don Perata reports that he didn't get a single phone call about the big welfare reform package that's getting all the front page press this week. But when it came to legalizing pet ferrets a couple of weeks back, Perata said his phone lines lit up like a Christmas tree" Hey we must be doing something right! (TJ) [Posted in FML issue 1999]