[Vision2020] Letter to the Editor regarding Daily News editorial

[Reggie Holmquist]

@Leigh:  Thank you for your insightful letter.

@all:  I dropped by the DailyNews today and talked to editor, Murf Raquet.
He said that a response to the letter from the Democrats was slated for
tomorrow's issue.  So, hopefully that will be a good response.

-Reggie

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 6:11 PM, KRFP <krfp at radiofreemoscow.org> wrote:

> I sent the letter below to the Daily News:
>
> --Leigh Robartes
>
>
> Your editorial yesterday (Daily News Sat., Oct 30) reads as if only the
> “left of center chattering classes” are able to tune their radios to
> 92.5, let alone call in during our candidate forums. We publicize our
> forums so as to attract a cross section of the electorate. We take calls
> from listeners in the sequence they come in.
>
> Our forums are unique in that voters can publicly and directly ask as
> many as 25 questions in an hour, and they don't have to leave home to
> participate.
>
> I have hosted candidate forums every year since 2005 on KRFP, and
> numerous years prior on KUOI, and there have been no candidates “being
> lectured,” and I don't remember any candidates “being eviscerated,” even
> in the figurative sense of the word.
>
> Mostly we've had questions about public policy and positions on issues.
> The format certainly allows for all sorts of questions from callers, but
> given past experience it's purely speculation on your part that there
> would be a lack of civility. Over the years, most candidates have gladly
> participated, although occasionally some have declined, including at
> least two Democrats.
>
> Seeing no story from your news reporter Christina Lords, only Saturday's
> editorial, I'll include some of what she called to find out Friday. I
> said Gresham Bouma told me he couldn't take the risk that he would say
> something during that night's radio forum that would be jumped on by
> those opposed to him so soon before the election, when there would be
> little time to respond. He also didn't want a one-hour forum on his
> Pastor. I told Gresham that was unlikely, but I was unable to persuade
> him to participate.
>
> I should set the record straight on Bill Goesling not participating. I
> had penciled him and opponent Tom Stroschein in for October 13^th , but
> Bill asked for a change to October 19^th , not “this week” as your
> editorial stated. Bill then called several days in advance and said he
> had forgotten about a fundraising event for the 19^th and probably
> wouldn't make it. By that time all the publicity had gone out and
> although I tried to get Tom to re-schedule, I was unable to, so we went
> ahead with Tom on the 19th.
>
> --Leigh Robartes
>
> Station Mgr.
>
> KRFP / Radio Free Moscow, Inc.
>
> 92.5
>
> Moscow, ID
>
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