[Vision2020] [video link added] Re: Mega-Load Update

[Wayne Price]

Oh how enlightened.......




On Nov 8, 2010, at 4:43 PM, Tom Hansen wrote:

> Wayne Price suggests:
>
> "The message that the voters sent to IDT, and IDT's  ultimate  
> "Boss", the
> Governor, is that they are happy with the operations of state  
> government,
> including the IDT. If they weren't, then the incumbent government,
> including the Governor, would have been show the door, and a new
> government would be taking its place in January. It wasn't and the  
> people
> of the state of Idaho have spoken."
>
> What a bunch of bunk, Mr. Price. On June 28th of this year, ITD and  
> Conoco
> began a series of presentations; one in Moscow, one in Lewiston, and  
> one
> in Kooskia.
>
> Originally these "presentations" were to be nothing more than JUST  
> that;
> presentations, something comparable to high school career day.
>
> I was there on June 28th and approached the ITD and Conoco  
> representatives
> about video-taping what I thought was going to be a "townhall  
> meeting".
> They ingormed me that the presentations were to be nothing more than  
> what
> I desctribed earlier.
>
> Upon their arrival I passed this information onto Nick Gier and Rep.  
> Tom
> Trail.  Tom Trail hot-footed it to the ITD and Conoco representatives.
> Their discussion was a bit heated (to put it mildly).
>
> In the end, the Moscow presentation took on the aura of a townhall
> meeting, as it should.  Needless to say, the people in attendance at  
> that
> meeting were NOT happy.
>
> http://moscowcares.com/highway12/ITDmtg_062810.htm
>
> At the Lewiston meeting, those in attendance were advised that there  
> WOULD
> NOT be a Q&A session to the Conoco/ITD presentation.
>
> The meeting in Kooskia was cancelled altogether.
>
> Now, tell us again how the people of Idaho are satisfied with the  
> way this
> was handled.
>
> As far as Governor Otter being re-elected . . . it was NOT as a  
> result of
> the topic of the Highway 12 megaloads.  Governor Otter never  
> expressed his
> opinion publicly one way or the other.  He was too DAMN busy with his
> "Capital for a Day" program, where he and his entourage went from  
> city to
> city discussing topics of the day.
>
> In fact, at one stop (Jerome, Idaho), Governor Otter disrupted a  
> wedding
> reception for his "Capital for a Day" program.
>
> http://www.tomandrodna.com/stuff/Countdown_102510_WMV.wmv
>
> Governor Otter is a MAJOR eye-sore in Idaho, proving that a hatrack  
> can be
> elected governor in Idaho, provided that the hatrack is registered
> Republican.
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to  
> change
> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
>
> - Unknown
>
>
>