[Vision2020] upcoming midterm election

[keely emerinemix]

I agree.  Andrus and Church were good friends of my father-in-law, and my 
grandfather and Church were quite close.  That we've degenerated from their 
example to actually considering Sali and Luna for office is frightening.

Of course, I'm from Arizona, which gave the world Evan Meacham in the late 
70s.  You all might remember him as the erstwhile Arizona governor who 
couldn't understand why "pickaninnies" was considered offensive when 
referring to African-American people.

keely


From: "Ted Moffett" <starbliss at gmail.com>
To: "keely emerinemix" <kjajmix1 at msn.com>
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] upcoming midterm election
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:00:27 -0700

keely wrote:


>  but both exhibit a
>"conservatism" that the GOP of a half-century ago would hardly recognize.
>And that's a pity, because with their election, I fear that Idaho is on
>its
>way to becoming a state that many of us won't recognize as part of the
>21st
>century or the America our parents loved and fought for.



On it's way?  Isn't it already a state that "many of us won't recognize..."?

Former Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus or former US Senator Frank Church
wouldn't stand a chance of election now with their stands on many issues,
given Idaho's current political climate...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_D._Andrus

In 1990 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990> Andrus gained national notoriety
when he vetoed a strict
anti-abortion<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion>bill passed by the
Idaho
Legislature <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_Legislature>. Later that
year Andrus decisively defeated conservative Republican state senator Roger
Fairchild <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Fairchild> for reelection to a
fourth term as governor, winning in every county except
Lemhi<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemhi_County%2C_Idaho>.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Church

Church is remembered for his voting record as a strong liberal and
environmental legislator, and he played a major role in the creation of the
nation's system of protected wilderness areas in the 1960s. In 1964, Church
was the floor sponsor of the National Wilderness
Act<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilderness_Act>.
In 1968, he sponsored the Wild and Scenic Rivers
Act<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_and_Scenic_Rivers_Act>and gained
passage of a ten year moratorium on federal plans to transfer
water from the Pacific
Northwest<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest>to
California <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California>. Working with
other members
of Congress <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Congress> from
northwestern states, Church helped establish the Hells
Canyon<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hells_Canyon>National Recreation
Area along the Oregon-Idaho border, which protected the
gorge from dam building. He was also the primary proponent in the
establishment of the Sawtooth
Wilderness<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawtooth_Wilderness>& National
Recreation 
Area<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawtooth_National_Recreation_Area>in
central Idaho in 1972.

This was all the more remarkable considering that he represented one of the
most conservative states in the nation.
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Ted Moffett

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