[Vision2020] North Idaho's image problem

[Pat Kraut]

My son who now lives in Pennsyvania has had to explain many times that we
don't have Nazi's in uniform walking around on the streets.
PK
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Carscallen" <predator75 at moscow.com>
To: "'Carl Westberg'" <carlwestberg846 at hotmail.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 1:02 PM
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] North Idaho's image problem


> Shoot, Carl, I have a hard enough time explaining to my friends across
> the country that no, I do not grow spuds for a living.
>
> DC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
> [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Carl Westberg
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 11:19 AM
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] North Idaho's image problem
>
>
> Forgive my late foray into the Confederate flag-Chamber of Commerce
> flap,
> I've been on vacation.  A few years ago, I was visiting a friend in the
> Asheville area of North Carolina.  At a museum in a little town called
> Brevard, I told the curator I was from north Idaho.  I was immediately
> assailed with questions about white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and
> neo-Confederates.  I did my part as an ambassador of our beautiful neck
> of
> the woods, and assured him that it was an assemblage of a handful of
> idiots
> who in no way represented the majority of Idaho residents.  Given the
> waning, but still active perception of this area as a haven for the
> Richard
> Butlers of the world, I can only say as a Moscow resident that a Chamber
> of
> Commerce presentation featuring the image of the Confederate flag is
> impolitic at best.  I'm feeling cranky, anyway.  I discovered over the
> weekend that at least three members of my extended clan
> are.....Republicans.
>   I've been assured by my support group that Republicans happen in the
> best
> of families.
>
>
>
>
>
>                                                           Carl Westberg
> Jr.
>
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