[Vision2020] MCA-endorsed candidates called "bigots"

[Matt Decker]

This mans actions are uncalled for. Bigots? What? Again lets clean it up people. 

From: jeanlivingston at turbonet.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:06:48 -0700
Subject: [Vision2020] MCA-endorsed candidates called "bigots"










 

Geoff 
Crimmins/Daily News 
Tom Ivie, right, talks with Dave Glasebrook, center, and Aly Lamar at the 
intersection of Third and Main streets in Moscow on Monday.
Protest draws questions, counter arguments
Claim 
of bigotry brings reaction from candidates, families 
By Tara Roberts 
Daily News staff writer
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - Page 
Updated at 12:00:00 AM
Dave Glasebrook says the sign he carried downtown Monday isn't political or 
connected to any political group.
"This is a religious protest," said Glasebrook, whose sign read "Vote for the 
Bigot Party, Ament, Lamar and Pall."
Incumbent Moscow City Council members Aaron Ament and Linda Pall are up for 
re-election Nov. 6. Tom Lamar, who was appointed to the council in June, is also 
running for a four-year council seat.
Glasebrook's protest took place Monday morning and evening at the corner of 
Third and Main streets and drew several question-asking bystanders. In the 
evening, there was a counter-demonstration by Lamar's wife, Aly, and daughter, 
Brya.
Glasebrook, a Christ Church member and professional pilot, said Ament, Lamar 
and Pall are part of a long-running vendetta against Christ Church. He said the 
City Council's decisions on issues such as the boardinghouse ordinance and 
zoning restrictions for Christ Church-affiliated New St. Andrews College are 
examples of bigotry.
He also carried a copy of a flier that was passed around town in August in 
protest of the church's Trinity Festival. The flier states that Christ Church, 
NSA and other affiliated organizations are "racist, sexist and homophobic." He 
said the flier was distributed by people who are allied with Ament, Lamar and 
Pall.
Glasebrook said his protest was not on behalf of Christ Church as a whole or 
any other group. He said he chose to use political terms on the sign because 
people wouldn't understand a strictly religious protest.
Glasebrook said the people listed on his sign are "going to get at (Christ 
Church Pastor Douglas) Wilson no matter how they can."
"For two years our City Council has focused on fighting Christ Church. Christ 
Church isn't fighting back," he said.
Glasebrook said he did not include the names of other people who have 
supported issues he views as anti-Christ Church on the sign because he didn't 
have room.
He said he does not intend to have any effect on the election, and that only 
God would be able to affect the results.
Aly Lamar said she spoke with Glasebrook on Monday evening before leaving in 
tears. She returned later with signs in support of Tom Lamar to "offer the other 
side."
"It's one thing to be pro-candidates. It's another thing to be against and 
name calling. ... It's not good politics," she said. "My feelings are hurt. I 
don't think it's a good way to go about getting his message across."
Aly Lamar said she was not concerned with how Glasebrook's sign would affect 
the election.
"If anything it will support those candidates (on the sign)," she said.
Brya Lamar, a senior at Moscow High School, later joined the counter-protest. 
Aly Lamar also added signs in support of Ament.
Brya Lamar said she does not believe her father deserved the accusations on 
the sign.
"I don't think he's prejudiced about any of that," she said.
Ament stopped by the demonstrations briefly on his way to another 
appointment.
"(Glasebrook) has the right to express his opinion," Ament said. "He's 
absolutely incorrect. I think his definition of a bigot as anyone who doesn't 
agree with him is pretty wrong, but he's entitled to that opinion."
Linda Pall said she drove by the protest and felt "profoundly 
disappointed."
"I would have to say that the last person to be called a bigot in this town 
should be me," Pall said. "I was the author of Moscow's most recent diversity 
resolution. I was the original mover and shaker to create a Human Rights 
Commission. I've been on the Latah County Human Rights Task Force since we've 
had one." 
When New St. Andrew's and Bucer's coffee shop were "under attack" for their 
connection to Christ Church, she supported them against boycotts, Pall said.
Evan Holmes, who is running for a two-year City Council seat, said Pall was 
one of the least bigoted people in the history of Moscow. He does not believe 
the protests will effect the elections.
"We're a pretty tolerant town," Holmes said. "We're even tolerant of 
protestors."
Holmes' opponent for the two-year seat, Walter Steed, and the other four-year 
candidates, Dan Carscallen and Wayne Krauss, said they recognize Glasebrook's 
right to protest but are not affiliated with his efforts.
"I don't condone it, but I guess I don't condemn it either," Carscallen 
said.
He said those who don't agree with Glasebrook should leave his protest alone 
and it likely will go away.
"We've been civil amongst ourselves through all of this," Steed said. "I'd 
like to continue that way."
Krauss said he thinks the protest "will add to the divisive climate that we 
now have."
"All of the candidates for City Council have run an honorable race, and I 
hope the voters will see this is a one-man protest," he said.
Tara Roberts can be reached at (208) 882-5561, ext. 234, or by e-mail at troberts at dnews.com.


Dave Glasebrook, 
holding the yellow sign, staged a campaign protest and triggered a 

counter-protest at 
the corner of Main and Third streets in downtown Moscow on Monday 
evening.
Moscow city politics take a turn for the 
personal
Sign-wielding protester takes aim at 
three incumbents and draws response from wife of one candidate and 
councilor
By David Johnson 
Tuesday, October 30, 
2007
MOSCOW - The campaign for city council here 
took what some were calling a tawdry turn Monday evening when a Moscow man 
displayed a sign alleging bigotry against three incumbents.
"This is a Christian protest, not a vote 
protest," Dave Glasebrook said. "My big problem is that here in Moscow there's 
been 20 years' worth of strife with Doug Wilson and Christ Church."
Standing on the sidewalk at the intersection 
of Main and Third streets, Glasebrook carried a yellow sign that read: "Vote the 
Bigot Party - Ament, Lamar, Pall." He said the slogan was a sarcastic way to 
raise public awareness.
Aaron Ament, Tom Lamar and Linda Pall are 
incumbents running for re-election. Glasebrook claimed the three are part of a 
continued campaign by city government to harass Wilson, his church and New Saint 
Andrews College located in downtown Moscow.
"If I stand up and say Christian men in 
America need to get on their knees and pray in order to change how America is, 
in order to change what's going on in Moscow, Lewiston and Idaho, people won't 
understand that," Glasebrook said.
So he decided to take to the street with his 
sign, attracting the attention of motorists and pedestrians including Lamar's 
wife, Aly Lamar, who stopped to mount a counter-demonstration.
"I'm here because I was riding my bicycle 
home on Main Street and I saw Dave holding this sign and it really took me by 
surprise that he was calling my husband, as well as other candidates, a bigot," 
Lamar said, explaining she returned with one of her husband's campaign signs to 
stand next to Glasebrook.
Aly Lamar said Glasebrook told her a number 
of reasons for his protest that boiled down to claiming her husband voted with 
Ament and Pall on various issues against Wilson, Christ Church and NSA. "So I 
discussed that with him a little bit, and got worked up and started crying and 
frustrated and wanted to do something." After realizing she and Glasebrook 
couldn't agree, Lamar said she decided to go on the offensive.
"So I thought if he's going to have signs 
and visit with passers-by saying Tom is a bigot I wanted to be here to let them 
know, in fact, that Tom is not a bigot," Lamar said.
Glasebrook claimed Ament, in particular, 
overtly tried to force NSA out of the downtown area. He said he was staging the 
protest on his own, not for or at the behest of Wilson, or anyone associated 
with Christ Church or NSA. "This is to open people's eyes, saying look at the 
bigotry in Moscow. Look at what's going on." He said the city council is "not 
getting after the Muslims" or any other faith, and that amounts to religious 
bigotry.
"I just hope God will use this sign and do 
something," Glasebrook said. "I can't change Aaron's heart. I can't make him do 
something. I can't convince Tom to do something. But I can get on my knees and I 
can pray that God will lead them to make right decisions, not just decisions 
that are working against one group of Christians in town."
Ament showed up and offered a terse take on 
Glasebrook's protest. "I think of the two of us, the one that's guilty (of 
bigotry) is the one holding the sign," Ament said. "My major crime is that I 
don't tolerate intolerance and that's what I've been hung with. And I will never 
tolerate intolerance."
Pall could not be reached for 
comment.
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Johnson may be 
contacted at deveryone at potlatch.com or (208) 
883-0564.

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