[Vision2020] Keeping the election civil

[Matt Decker]

Roger,

Seems to be a bunch of this crap going on this political year. It would nice not to have attacks everywhere. Instead let the candidates speak or at least an opportunity too.

> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:15:52 -0700
> From: lfalen at turbonet.com
> To: jeanlivingston at turbonet.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Keeping the election civil
> 
> Thanks Bruce and Gerald
> Roger
> -----Original message-----
> From: jeanlivingston jeanlivingston at turbonet.com
> Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:07:40 -0700
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Keeping the election civil
> 
> > 
> > Pasted in this message is a letter to the editor from tonight's Daily
> > News by Gerard Connelly, with which I wholeheartedly agree.  My
> > on-line comments on the DN's web site follow the letter.
> > 
> > Bruce Livingston
> > 
> > 
> > Monday, October 1, 2007 - Page Updated at 12:00:00 AM
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Refrain from personal attacks
> > 
> > Recently two letters to the editor in the Daily News contained gross
> > personal attacks against members of the Greater Moscow Alliance that I
> > believe deserve a response.
> > 
> > One writer, in reference to the newly passed housing ordinance, stated
> > that the only thing the GMA cares about is profit. Another writer
> > stated that GMA members are "evil" and "hate children."
> > 
> > I happened to serve on a board whose sole purpose is to care for and
> > support Latah County residents with disabilities, with two GMA
> > members, including Steve Busch, GMApresident.
> > 
> > Busch (as well as many other GMA members) has for decades contributed,
> > with great generosity, his money, time and energy to many
> > organizations and causes in Moscow for the benefit of children, the
> > disabled, the elderly and the poor. He is absolutely one of the best
> > human beings that it has ever been my privilege to know.
> > 
> > I may not always agree with Moscow Mayor Nancy Chaney but, like Busch,
> > she is highly intelligent, of impeccable integrity and generosity and
> > I believe her sole motivation is what she sincerely believes to be in
> > the best interest of the citizens of Moscow.
> > 
> > I implore readers of the Daily News and writers of letters to the
> > editor to speak out on the issues on a level of mutual respect and to
> > refrain from personal attacks and judgment of other's motives.
> > 
> > L. Gerard Connelly, Moscow
> > 
> > 
> > I commend Gerard Connelly on his request that people refrain from the
> > personal attacks in this upcoming, very competitiveelection.  I, too,
> > have the greatest respect for my neighbor, Steve Busch, and our Mayor
> > Nancy Chaney.  They are both great people who sincerely believe that
> > their vision of what is best for Moscow is right, even though they
> > disagree in that vision not on everything, of course, but in some very
> > significant ways.
> > 
> > Attacks on people who have a different vision are uncalled for.  I
> > don't believe that anyone at the GMA or the MCA or our city government
> > or any of our candidates is "Evil" or "hates  children" or "doesn't
> > care about the poor because they opposed a Wal-Mart." 
> > 
> > The MCA and the current council have been hit with a continuous mantra
> > that we are anti-business and anti-growth, and while I disagree
> > strenuously with that notion, I can live with the fact that others
> > disagree with our vision.  That is what elections are for.
> > 
> > In the same way, I have some significant differences with my friends
> > in the GMA, and I would hope that we candisagree amicably, but
> > respectfully.  
> > 
> > Kudos to Gerard for saying so.
> > 
> > BDL
> > 
> > 
> > 
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