[Vision2020] And the Hits Just keep On Coming . . .

[Tom Hansen]

Minro correction, Dan.

The article is from "US News and World Report" not "USA Today".

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

PS - Could you post here on the Viz what you find out from Moscow's 
finest?  I can always email the MPD, I guess.

> Vizzz Peeps,
> 
> I'm sorry, but to me this looks like the USA Today is grasping at
> straws.  Quoting the "blogosphere"?  Didn't someone else just pooh-pooh
> something positive about Mrs. Palin because it came from a blog that
> quoted another blog that was quoting still another blog?  That looks
> like a "blogosphere" thing to me.  
> 
> Other questions might be:  Did any rapes occur in Wasilla, AK, when Mrs.
> Palin was on the city council or when she served as mayor?  If none did,
> nobody on that council may have even known about the policy.  Looks like
> it was a statewide policy in Alaska before the prior governor signed the
> new law.  
> 
> I don't even know if it's policy here in Moscow.  (but I plan to find
> out, because I also believe it's wrong to charge a victim for it)
> 
> There are so many laws and policies out there in this country of ours
> that we don't even know about, until something happens to trigger them,
> which in turn may bring about protest.  
> 
> DC
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
> [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Tom Hansen
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:21 PM
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] And the Hits Just keep On Coming . . .
> 
> 
> >From US News and World Report (that's a reliable news source for those 
> >who
> wish to know) at:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/6j4ma4
>  
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Sarah Palin and the Rape Kit Question
> 
> The blogosphere is reporting that when she was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska,
> 
> in the late 1990s, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's 
> municipal police department charged rape victims for the "rape kit" used
> 
> to collect the forensic evidence necessary to convict their attackers. 
> According to reports, this changed in 2000 when then Alaska Gov. Tony 
> Knowles signed a bill protecting rape victims from being charged. As I 
> wrote recently, however, the situation described in Wasilla is not
> unique. 
> In all too many instances, women are still being stuck with the bill for
> 
> rape kits. This despite the fact that in order to qualify for federal 
> grants under the Violence Against Women Act, states are supposed to pick
> 
> up the entire tab.
> 
> If on her watch Sarah Palin allowed women to be charged for rape kits,
> she 
> has some serious explaining to do. But while she's undoubtedly the most 
> visible offender, if the story is true, she's unfortunately not the only
> 
> one to have permitted this reprehensible practice.
> 
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> 
> Can you imagine charging rape victims anywhere from $300 to $1,200 for
> the 
> material and processes in gathering evidence against the person that
> raped 
> them?
> 
> This is an atrocity no matter who the mayor is.  But when that mayor is 
> running for Vice President of the United States . . .
> 
> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>  
> "Jesus was a community organizer and Poncius Pilate was a governor."
> 
> - Marilyn Trail, sister of Representative Tom trail (September 8, 2008)
> 
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"Jesus was a community organizer and Poncius Pilate was a governor."

- Marilyn Trail, sister of Representative Tom trail (September 8, 2008)

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students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

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