[Vision2020] Not a city resident

[Tbertruss at aol.com]

Donovan et. al.

"But she does not live IN Moscow, so those local
decisions are not up to her. If she moves into the
city, she obtains to right to vote in Moscow
elections"

So if a parent or grandparent with a child in the Moscow School District, by 
virtue of the parent or grandparent living inside the Moscow School District, 
has a problem with, for example, crosswalks endangering their child due to 
speeding drivers and lack of traffic law enforcement, issues that are Moscow City 
issues in part decided by city traffic law, those local decisions are, 
according to you, "not up to her." 

However, this is not what you originally stated regarding activists for 
change who live outside Moscow City limits who happen to have children or 
grandchildren in MSD by virtue of the their address, a description that includes Rose.

I am not arguing, as you seem to think perhaps I should, that those outside 
the city limits be allowed to vote.  This was your suggestion, quoted toward 
the bottom here, as to how they should proceed with influencing Moscow City 
affairs.  

I stated that there is no law against, nor do I think it reasonable, to 
attempt to stop someone who lives inside MSD yet outside city limits, with children 
or grandchildren in MSD, from speaking out and/or being an activist for 
change inside Moscow City limits, for example, regarding Moscow City traffic law 
regarding location of crosswalks and speed limits.  Or regarding the human 
rights "climate" regarding harassment of children who may have Gay parents!

Donovan wrote on 9/24/05:

If you do not like our city council, rules or
enforcement, city officials, elected officials
representing Moscow Residents, Moscow schools, the
religion of our residents, and many of the residents
themselves, why don't you move to a city you like and
stop harassing Moscow Residents? 

Your comment above is not focused solely on the issue of voting in city 
elections for those outside the city limits.  Voting is only one method of 
attempting to change a community for the better, and though a parent with a child or 
grandchild in MSD who lives outside the city limits, yet still within MSD, 
cannot vote in city only elections, there are numerous other legal methods of 
attempting to influence city affairs.  Your comment above is a broad statement 
advising someone (Rose) who may have a wide range of concerns with Moscow City 
issues, who has a child in the Moscow School District (as Rose had, with 
grandchildren now in MSD) by virtue of living inside MSD, to move somewhere else "if 
you do not like our city..."

And so far in your responses you have not indicated there is any problem 
whatsoever with your statement.

So I thought you might want to clarify what you really think on this issue?  

Do you think that all parents or grandparents who live outside the city 
limits, yet reside in the Moscow School District with children or grandchildren 
attending MSD, who have complaints about Moscow City affairs, should not be 
activists for change involving Moscow City issues, but should "move to a city you 
like and stop harassing Moscow Residents?"

Actually, you gave them one other alternative, expressed below:

"Or propose a law allowing anyone that works in or visits Moscow to vote in 
city elections even if they do not live here."

So these are the alternatives you offer?  Move somewhere else, or propose the 
law suggested above?

Ted Moffett
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