[Vision2020] Otter Plans Closed-Door Oath Taking
lfalen
lfalen at turbonet.com
Tue Jan 2 11:49:42 PST 2007
The oarh should have been public. This is one republican who thinks everything but security matters should be done in public and recorded.
Roger
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From: "J Ford" privatejf32 at hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 13:59:02 -0800
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Otter Plans Closed-Door Oath Taking
> So, what else is new? Isn't the mantra of the Republican party..."Do it,
> but do it outta sight and quietly. Leave no witnesses who can detail a
> different story than what you're putting out there."?
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> >From: "Bill London" <london at moscow.com>
> >To: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>, "Vision 2020"
> ><vision2020 at moscow.com>
> >Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Otter Plans Closed-Door Oath Taking
> >Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:11:56 -0800
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> >Idaho's governor taking the official oath of office...what could be more
> >public than that?
> >Yet Otter is taking that oath at a private gathering and not allowing media
> >coverage.
> >Otter's choice to take the oath and then later to have a public party
> >(which
> >is the present plan) is OK with me...but not allowing media coverage of the
> >official oath event sucks.
> >I am afraid Otter is planning to run a Bush-like secretive government for
> >this state....
> >BL
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> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
> >To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> >Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 8:26 AM
> >Subject: [Vision2020] Otter Plans Closed-Door Oath Taking
> >
> >
> > > >From today's (December 23, 2006) Lewiston Tribune -
> > >
> > > Governor-elect "Butch" Otter has elected to have his oath of office
> > > conducted privately. This leaves to the imaginations:
> > >
> > > What other business will Governor Otter be conducting privately, out of
> >view
> > > from Idaho's concerned citizenry?
> > >
> > > --------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Otter plans closed-door oath taking
> > >
> > > By DEAN A. FERGUSON
> > > of the Tribune
> > > When Idaho's new governor takes the oath of office on Jan. 1, the public
> > > won't see it. Historians can't recall a recent governor taking his oath
> >in
> > > complete privacy.
> > >
> > > A spokesman for the governor-elect called the closed-door oath
> >"procedural,"
> > > noting a public ceremony will be later that week.
> > >
> > > "There's no skullduggery," said Jon Hanian, spokesman for Republican
> > > Governor-elect C.L. (Butch) Otter. "It has to be done so that's how he's
> > > doing it."
> > >
> > > Idaho's constitution requires Otter to take his oath, "beginning on the
> > > first Monday in January next after his election."
> > >
> > > That's New Year's Day. A public swearing-in ceremony will take place on
> >the
> > > Capitol steps on Jan. 5.
> > >
> > > "It's fair to say that on the first (of January), for most people,
> >that's
> >a
> > > holiday," Hanian said. "We're concentrating all of our effort on the
> >fifth
> > > for the public swearing-in with all the pomp and circumstance and the
> > > speeches and the prayers."
> > >
> > > Historians scratched their heads to recall a private swearing-in. One
> > > historian said excluding the press struck him as odd.
> > >
> > > "I never heard of anything like that before," said Arthur Hart, former
> > > director of the Idaho State Historical Society.
> > >
> > > "If memory serves, some territorial governors might have been sworn-in
> >in
> > > Washington, D.C. ... and some of them never even bothered coming back
> >here,"
> > > Hart said.
> > >
> > > Jim Weatherby, a retired political science professor from Boise State
> > > University, said Gov. Dirk Kempthorne held a private ceremony in the
> > > governor's office one minute after midnight on Jan. 3, 1999 -- but it
> >didn't
> > > involve an oath.
> > >
> > > Kempthorne was so eager to be governor he changed the locks on the
> >office
> > > four days early -- or, so his predecessor Gov. Phil Batt charged. But
> > > Kempthorne's midnight ceremony was little more than a prayer and a glass
> >of
> > > water raised in a toast with First Lady Patricia Kempthorne, according
> >to
> >an
> > > Idaho Statesman report.
> > >
> > > His actual oath came at a public event later that day.
> > >
> > > "Swearing in the governor, that should be public," Weatherby said.
> > >
> > > In 1994, Batt's official beginning fell on a Jan. 2. He took the oath in
> >a
> > > small affair with reporters present.
> > >
> > > Elected officials must file oaths with the Idaho Secretary of State's
> >office
> > > on Jan. 1, said Miren Artiach, a deputy in the office.
> > >
> > > "All of them are concerned about having the proper paperwork in order,"
> >said
> > > Artiach, who will work Jan. 1 to record the various oaths of office.
> >"Some
> > > people think that ceremony on the steps is the actual swearing-in but
> >it's
> > > just a public ceremony."
> > >
> > > Anyone from judges to notaries can witness the oaths.
> > >
> > > Outgoing Gov. Jim Risch will be in Sun Valley on New Year's Day and also
> > > plans a private swearing-in ceremony. Risch became governor when
> >Kempthorne
> > > stepped down in May to be interior secretary. But, Risch was re-elected
> >as
> > > lieutenant governor.
> > >
> > > "It's not public, but if someone in the media is up there in Sun Valley
> >and
> > > says, 'Can I come in and watch?' I don't think we'd be opposed to it,"
> >said
> > > Brad Hoaglun, a spokesman for Risch.
> > >
> > > Judy Austin of Boise, who retired after 36 years as an editor and
> >historian
> > > for the Idaho State Historical Society, said the "narrow question" would
> > > make it tough to research how often oaths were privately taken.
> > >
> > > She doesn't doubt Otter will take his oath in a sincere and ordinary
> >manner.
> > > But a private oath disquiets her nonetheless.
> > >
> > > "I find it ever so slightly uncomfortable that there is no witness on
> >behalf
> > > of the public is how I'd put it," Austin said.
> > >
> > > --------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Seeya round town, Moscow.
> > >
> > > Tom Hansen
> > > Moscow, Idaho
> > >
> > > "Let It Snow"
> > > http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Let_It_Snow.mp3
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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