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

[Tom Hansen]

Reggie Holmquist inquires:

"They gonna give us some sort of a chance to respond before election day?"

Of course they will, Reggie.

They jus' won't publish it.

It's all part and parcel of the Fox News' and/or Daily News' (it's gettin'
where ya can't tell 'em apart no more) concept of "Fair and Balanced".

Tom Hansen
One of them leff-wing hippie Intolerista wingnuts doing what comes natural.


On Sat, October 30, 2010 12:59 pm, Reggie Holmquist wrote:
> They gonna give us some sort of a chance to respond before election day?
>
> -Reggie
>
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:58 AM, keely emerinemix <kjajmix1 at msn.com>
> wrote:
>
>>  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.
>> >
>> > ---------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > 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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