[Vision2020] The End of Democracy in Latah - or Not

[keely emerinemix]

One wonders how they're able to produce much of anything with heads buried so deeply in the sand -- or elsewhere.

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com




> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:40:27 -0700
> From: thansen at moscow.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] The End of Democracy in Latah - or Not
> 
> Courtesy of today's (October 30, 2010) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
> 
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> 
> OUR VIEW: The end of democracy in Latah - or not
> By Lee Rozen, for the editorial board
> 
> Three right-of-center candidates scheduled to appear on left-of-center
> radio station KRFP, known as Radio Free Moscow, cancelled at the last
> minute this week or simply didn't show up.
> 
> How dare these candidates not show up as scheduled to be lectured to by
> KRFP's listeners and asked loaded and pointed questions about their
> religious as well as their political views!
> 
> The chattering class to the left of center sees this as the end of
> democracy in Latah County.
> 
> It isn't.
> 
> It may speak to the candidates' courage or lack thereof in answering the
> tough questions, as the progressives would have it. Or it may speak to
> their good political sense, deciding to spend time campaigning where they
> might have a chance to win some votes instead of being eviscerated by
> those who will never vote for them.
> 
> All three candidates, Gresham Bouma, Isaac "Ike" Young and Bill Goesling,
> had already shown up at every one of the candidate forums that had been
> scheduled from Moscow to Deary and points between.
> 
> Let's face it, by this week many, if not most, of us have already voted
> or, at least, pretty well made up our mind on who gets our black oval.
> And, besides that, KRFP doesn't have the largest audience around.
> 
> We think that, if anything, these no-shows should get demerits for lack of
> courtesy, both to KRFP and its listeners, who thought - until showtime -
> that they would soon hear some fireworks.
> 
> Now, Young's opponent, Shirley Ringo, makes the point that she has gone to
> every candidate forum, even those that weren't particularly sympathetic to
> her as a Democrat. Well, so did these three Republicans.
> 
> Oddly enough, no one seems to be particularly upset that Goesling didn't
> show up for his time on the radio. But then he is the only one of the
> three not claiming to have nasty mailings sent out against him.
> 
> Some on the left seem to find insult in the very fact that ones as
> conservative in all aspects of their lives as Bouma and Young are running
> for office.
> 
> We don't.
> 
> They give us voters some very clear choices. It is quite obvious in
> Bouma's race against Dan Schmidt and in Young's race against Ringo who is
> the conservative and who is the liberal.
> 
> That should make it much easier for you to make up your mind for whom to
> vote.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Translation: Why is everybody always pickin' on me?
> 
> You see, Mr. Rozen. When you run for public office, you should realize
> that, sometimes, you are going to meet people that simply do not agree
> with you.
> 
> What separates the riff from the raff is how a candidate interacts with
> those people that do not agree with him/her. Because, Mr. Rozen, like it
> or not, those people are part of your constituency.
> 
> In interacting with that portion of the constituency that disagrees with
> the candidate, the candidate can either step up to the plate and respond
> to questions with honest heart-felt conviction or they can run and hide.
> 
> If you can't swim, stay out of the pool.
> 
> Seeya at the polls, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
> 
> - Unknown
> 
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