[Vision2020] All Wet?

[g. crabtree]

Finish the housecleaning that was started at the last election? Maybe you should familiarize yourself with who the incumbents are. Looks to me like it's all the little darlings of your own little anti-growth, anti-business rodeo.

g
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Saundra Lund 
  To: 'Tom Hansen' ; vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 9:14 AM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] All Wet?


  <snort>

   

  And, wasn't it just yesterday GMA apologist Gary Crabtree had the audacity to accuse the MCA of "electioneering at its absolute worst"?!  So much for any credibility he had left . . . 

   

  Arrogant double standards of the kind Mr. Crabtree tosses around are precisely the reason I agree with this part Jeff Harkins' post the other day:

  "For my taste, it is time for a change in Moscow."

   

  Absolutely!  Let's finish the housecleaning that was started last election!  Vote for candidates who will continue to bring transparency, accountability, integrity, and honesty - all core values that have been conspicuously absent during some eras - back to City Hall!

   

  Let's continue to send a loud and clear message that our community deserves far better than the ancient outdated notions of cronyism, patronage, and the good ol' boy network in City Hall.  Projects and issues should be decided on merits, not based on who a council (or staff) member is related to, grew up with, went to school with, goes to church with, is neighbors with, or otherwise "knows."

   

  Given how many seats we have up for election, the GMA candidate endorsements made my voting decisions much easier.  Sorry, Dan . . . when you bed down with the dogs, you come up with things like fleas and other parasites -- ick.  And, for the record:  no, I'm not a member of the MCA.

   

   

  Saundra Lund

  Moscow, ID

   

  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.

  ~ Edmund Burke

   

  ***** Original material contained herein is Copyright 2007 through life plus 70 years, Saundra Lund.  Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce outside the Vision 2020 forum without the express written permission of the author.*****

   

   

   

   

   

  From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Tom Hansen
  Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 8:14 AM
  To: bjswan at moscow.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] All Wet?

   

  You mean this ad, Beedge?

   



   

  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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  From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of B. J. Swanson
  Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 8:09 AM
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com
  Subject: [Vision2020] All Wet?

   

  Although I don't live in Moscow and can't vote in the City election, the stance on issues by the Greater Moscow Alliance candidates frankly has me concerned.

   

  In the Daily News this morning was an ad, "Water? The anti-growth politicians are all wet."  Basically, Carscallen, Krauss and Steed do not think we have a water problem.  The ad talks about 'smart conservation' but the candidates have said they want green lawns, development at all costs,  the scientists are wrong, Pullman is getting a new golf course, etc.  

   

  Then below the ad header, "Forward Thinking."  Perhaps "Heads in the Sand" would be a better description.  Is their idea of Forward Thinking ignoring all the REAL warning signs?  What about the many small domestic wells near Moscow that have gone dry?  What about the declining aquifer?  What about WSU realizing that it is unwise to water the golf course with aquifer water and are planning an effluent system?  What about the small towns on the edge of the Snake River Aquifer whose wells have gone dry and fighting over water rights has escalated to violence?  Have they heard about drought and declining aquifers in nearly every other area of the country?  

   

  Please vote for intelligent planning and real Forward Thinking; vote Ament, Holmes, Lamar and Pall.

   

  B. J. Swanson



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