[Vision2020] City Council Candidate List Begins To Take Shape

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This article was wrong on who was elected that The Greater Moscow Alliance backed. Jennifer Barrett was also elected.
Roger
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From: "Tom Hansen" thansen at moscow.com
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:01:54 -0700
To: "Moscow Vision 2020" vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] City Council Candidate List Begins To Take Shape

> >From today's (August 6, 2007) Moscow-Pullman Daily News -
> 
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> 
> City Council candidate list begins to take shape
> Ament, Pall to run for re-election; political action committee seeks change
> By Tara Roberts, Daily News staff writer
> August 6, 2007
> 
> Two Moscow City Council members have taken the first step toward running for
> re-election this fall.
> 
> Aaron Ament and Linda Pall have filed forms with the city clerk and
> appointed treasurers for their campaigns. Though Ament and Pall are the only
> candidates to file so far, the Greater Moscow Political Action Committee has
> filed to be a fundraising group for as-yet-unnamed candidates.
> 
> Ament said he decided to run again because his constituents have requested
> it. He officially announced his candidacy Wednesday.
> 
> He said he considered not running because he was "wondering if I could be as
> effective as a citizen in the private sector," but heard from enough people
> to change his mind.
> 
> Ament, who currently holds the only two-year seat on the council, said he is
> not sure if he will run for a two-year seat or for a four-year seat this
> time around.
> 
> Ament said his campaign will focus on the slogan, "Our kids, our money and
> our neighborhoods."
> 
> "The specific issues will be given to me by the citizens of Moscow during
> the campaign," he said.
> 
> Ament said he plans to continue working on the Palouse River Drive
> ballfields project, as well as a plan to construct a pedestrian bridge
> connecting Third Street and Mountain View Road.
> 
> He said he also will continue to urge the city to include another police
> officer in its budget. At this year's budget meeting he convinced the
> council to bump the animal control officer position from three-quarters time
> to full time.
> 
> "We did move forward a little," he said. "We'll try with next year's budget
> (for another officer)."
> 
> Pall has not yet officially declared her candidacy and declined to comment
> on the matter.
> 
> Jim Anderson, treasurer and spokesman for the Greater Moscow Political
> Action Committee, said the group's mission "is to support and elect
> candidates that believe in free enterprise and bringing Moscow back to where
> it belongs, to a greater position."
> 
> The group is not officially connected to the Greater Moscow Alliance, though
> it does have some of the same criteria and members.
> 
> The committee was active in last year's elections, supporting Latah County
> commissioner candidates Jack Nelson, Don Ball and Jennifer Barrett. Nelson
> was the only one of the three elected.
> 
> Anderson said the group has no definite potential candidates and is not sure
> how many people it will support.
> 
> "There's some people we oppose," he said. He declined to name those
> individuals.
> 
> Anderson said the group will announce which candidates it supports after
> candidates officially declare their candidacy with the city in late August
> and early September.
> 
> The group already has sent out a fundraising letter that states "it is time
> for a change" in Moscow. Anderson said the group hopes to elect people who
> will change Moscow's "anti-business" image.
> 
> He said the group also supports "good, sustainable growth" and wants to help
> boost enrollment at the University of Idaho.
> 
> Shelley Bennett, the group's chairwoman, said it also aims to get more
> people involved with politics.
> 
> "What our big thing is going to be is to get people out to vote," she said.
> 
> Getting more voices involved will keep the "vocal minority" from running the
> city, Bennett said.
> 
> There are four council seats open for election in November, including those
> currently held by Ament and Pall and one held by Tom Lamar. Lamar was
> appointed to replace Bob Stout, who resigned in May to accept a job with
> Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign team.
> 
> Also open is the seat formerly held by John Dickinson, whose body recently
> was discovered in the Columbia River. Dickinson had been missing since Jan.
> 8, when he had stopped to help a motorist following an accident on an
> Interstate 84 bridge in Oregon. Police believe he either fell off the bridge
> or jumped the 3 1/2-foot concrete railing to avoid an accident.
> 
> Mayor Nancy Chaney has indicated that Dickinson's vacancy will be addressed
> after the city completes its budget-setting process.
> 
> The election will be Nov. 6.
> 
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> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college
> students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."
> 
> - Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)
> 
> 
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