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<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4>Sean,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4>I have written extensively on this forum
and others about tolerance.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4>I encourage everyone with any view
what-so-ever to express and to argue for that view. As far as ideas go, my
tolerance ends there.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4>All ideas are subject to critical
evaluation and comment. That is the reason freedom of expression is the
cornerstone of an open, democratic society.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4>I doubt that you wish me to re-express my
critique of the Christ Church Cult's ideas at this point. I call them a
cult because they are. Various V 2020 posters have posted various
academic, observation-based, scholarly based tests of cult activity and pointed
out how the CCC meets most of those criteria. You can find this out for
yourself if you can Google.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4>I make no apology for being critical of a
sexist, homophobic, arrogantly dishonest, anti-secular, anti-public education,
manipulative, hypocritical, tax avoiding cult. If you find this idea
demeaning, so be it.</FONT></DIV><FONT face="Verdana Ref" size=4>
<DIV><BR>Wayne</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Art Deco (Wayne Fox)<BR><A
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=o2design@wsu.edu href="mailto:o2design@wsu.edu">sean</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 20, 2004 1:22
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Response to
Kimmell: Part I, DiscriminatoryHiring/Contracting Practices</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Interesting information. Worth knowing more about.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>I wonder, however, why you, Wayne, feel the need to demean others'
religion in the process of raising concerns about unethical practices.
Is it because you are similarly guilty of discrimination? </DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>As it is you confuse the issues surrounding the alleged practices by
potentially raising outrage at not only Kimmell but yourself. Somehow I
doubt you would consider similar venomous language to be acceptable by others
in the community if it were leveled at groups you support. Yet it seems
being a liberal makes it OK to insult others. Or is it just that
those liberals who lack self-control give a bad name to the rest? </DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>If one bad apple doesn't spoil the rest, it certainly may make the others
be avoidedŠdespite their good character. I guess that goes for apples
and organizations (both liberal and conservative).</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>s</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1><B>Preface</B></FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>On August 27,
2004, a pseudo-folksy column by Paul Kimmell appeared in the<I> Daily
News</I> [appended below]. This column was an apparent attempt to
respond to some of the many criticisms made of Kimmell's actions in his dual
role as Moscow Chamber of Commerce Executive Director and Latah County
Commissioner. Because Kimmell's column did not address certain
important issues and dishonestly addressed others, a multi-part response is
in the works to set the record straight.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>This first part
deals with discriminatory hiring/contracting practices – the favoring of
Christ Church Cult members/businesses in hiring and contracting practices by
the chamber and county – an issue that Kimmell did not choose to address in
his Pollyanna column.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1><B>Discriminatory
Hiring/Contracting Practices</B></FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>As Executive
Director of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce, Kimmell hired at least five
fellow Christ Church Culties as employees. Assessing generously in his
favor the odds of fairly hiring even one cultie from all the possible
applicants in the area at 1 in 50 (with replacement), the odds of fairly
hiring five culties are about 1 in 315,000,000!</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>One of the
culties hired was Kimmell's current wife, Connie. Can you also say
NEPOTISM? [More about the Kimmell/Kimmel connection at the chamber
will be forthcoming in the posts on chamber
financials.]</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>A few more of the
allegations that a considerable amount of chamber money was spent in a
discriminatory manner for part-time work and contracted services are as
follows:</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT
size=+1>§ <FONT face=Verdana>
Hiring eight cultie children directly without any attempt to find other
children to do a special project.</FONT></FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT
size=+1>§ <FONT face=Verdana> A
disproportionate amount of catering done by Zume, a cult member based
business housed in the NSA tenement. [Some chamber members are also
not enamored by the quality of the alleged comestibles
served.]</FONT></FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT
size=+1>§ <FONT face=Verdana> A
disproportionate number of entertainments at chamber functions provided by
Eric Engerbretson, a cultie and cultie apologist. [According to some
chamber members, a little of Eric goes a long
way.]</FONT></FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT
size=+1>§ <FONT face=Verdana> The
contracting of the design, programming, and maintenance of the chamber
website to inexperienced, inept amateurs from NSA for over
$22,000.</FONT></FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>As county
commissioner, Kimmell recently used his influence to help install a cultie
in a clerical position in the Latah County Courthouse.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1><B>Effects of
Discriminatory Hiring/Contracting Practices</B></FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>Discrimination
based on religious preference/practice is contrary to state and federal
law. This is especially true of public institutions and those
organizations like the chamber that thrive in part because of public tax
monies received.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>There are many
secondary effects that can arise from this discriminatory misuse of public
money:</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>Public agencies
who have contributed to the chamber either through dues or grants can demand
that those past contributions be returned for the entire period that the
discrimination has occurred. These agencies can use court action to
force the return of such monies, if necessary.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>Further, the
public agencies themselves can be forced to return funds which were given to
them under laws and contracts prohibiting discriminatory practices by
vendors and/or other service organizations to that public
agency.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>Public agencies
giving money to organizations practicing discrimination (such as the chamber
has for the last three or four years) face a loss of community
goodwill. Just losing a little goodwill can cause a public agency to
lose a levy request or lose support for a budget
increase.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>I have little
doubt that unless the chamber apologizes for, stops the discriminatory
practices, and removes the individual (Kimmell) responsible for them, that
the public agencies supporting this past discrimination with public funds
will themselves be the object of some very unpleasant community wrath,
protest, and action.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1><B>As for the
pathetic chamber website</B>, chamber members have been willfully and
arrogantly ripped off. Besides its marginal graphical design and
overall structural inadequacies, important parts of the website are
dysfunctional. There is no search mechanism to find member businesses
[Google provides such programming free]. You can't even use the web
browser edit function to find a business since the business names, etc.
occur in graphic files! Hence, even if you go through the slow process
of going page by page to find a member business, you can't copy the
individual business information from the graphic page. Further, it
does not appear that simple maintenance procedures that chamber employees
could use have been created; therefore the chamber is dependent on the NSA
students to maintain the website. Needless to say, the information on
the chamber website is out of date.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>A professional
could have created for the chamber a graphically and functionally well
designed website. Such a design would have provided chamber members
with the search ability and visibility for their businesses and
organizations they have a right to expect. The website building and
cost from a professional? Probably under $5,000!</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>Instead, under
Kimmell's religious discriminatory contracting practices, inexperienced,
inept students from cult business NSA have been paid over $22,000 and the
product is marginal at best. This is con-artistry at its small town
worst!</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>Kimmell's
discriminatory practices also show that in addition to getting "oversight"
from Christ Church Cult Master Douglas Wilson as a Latah County
Commissioner, Kimmell's obeying orders from the Cult Master is aiding the
Cult Master's A-Religious-Kingdom-for-Myself ambitions using our tax
money.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>[Question:
Do the culties knowingly hired/contracted through these discriminatory
practices, a process of community theft, hypocritically continue to call
themselves "Christians" or have they in their heart of hearts (but not
publicly) given up such a pretense?]</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>Obviously,
discrimination based on religious preference/practice is in itself grossly
unfair. It steals from everyone in the community both opportunity and
possible income. Therefore, this kind of discrimination is little more
than common theft and its perpetrator, Paul Kimmell, is little more than a
common thief. These discriminatory practices in the name of the
chamber make that organization look like a bunch of common thieves
also.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>Previous posters
have described Kimmell and other some chamber board members as very
"community minded" and "nice." Kimmell may be "charming," but to
describe him and his co-conspirators using the words "nice" and "community
minded" when they are, in effect, common thieves using tax money to finance
their hateful discriminatory practices is a gross misuse of the English
language.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1><B>Silence of the
Chamber Board</B></FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>Although they
have been asked several times and by several different persons to comment on
the above described discriminatory practices, members of the board have not
yet made any public comment on this issue. [At least one member,
however, has said, "It is none of the public's
business."]</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>Although the
chamber board has been silent on this issue, one influential past president
of the chamber has commented. Jon Kimberling in a series of exchanges
with myself, made these remarks, perhaps speaking for the present
chamber:</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1>”Wayne - as past president of
the Chamber and someone who spent a year on City Council working with Paul,
I can tell you he is a man of great integrity. The Chamber board
questioned him about his hiring's. It is my belief that he hired the
best people for the job - some happened to be associated with the church.
I don't know about you but I have a tendency to associate myself with
people who have similar values. Is that so wrong?
..."</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1>"Whatever the math, there is
still every possibility that the Chamber went through a thorough process in
each hiring and that the best candidate was chosen.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1>When I said: "I have a
tendency to associate myself with people who have similar values," Is that
so wrong? I should have continued and explained that I believe Paul
networked with local business people, church members and anyone else he
knows to advertise the jobs. It was certainly no secret at the Chamber
and we were all encouraged to get the word out. I don't deny the
appearance of favoritism..."</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>The sentence
comparing Jon Kimberling's practices to Paul Kimmell's practices: "I
have a tendency to associate myself with people who have similar
values. Is that so wrong?" perhaps explains in part why the chamber
has ignored not only state and federal law but the rights and reasonable
expectations of everyone in the community in their hiring/contracting
practices.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1><B>Solution</B></FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>There is a simple
solution that any prudent business person would pursue when faced with the
problems described above.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>1.</FONT><FONT
size=+1> <SPAN></SPAN> <FONT
face=Verdana> Apologize to the community which provides its funding for past
missteps, and as far as legally and fairly possible, correct
them.</FONT></FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>2.</FONT><FONT
size=+1> <SPAN></SPAN> <FONT
face=Verdana> Design, write, and scrupulously follow procedures which
provide for advertising, screening, and hiring/contracting such that all of
the qualified candidates in our community have an equal chance of being
considered and hired for any chamber position or contracted
service.</FONT></FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>3.</FONT><FONT
size=+1> <SPAN></SPAN> <FONT
face=Verdana> Immediately dismiss Paul Kimmell as executive director.
His open, arrogant violation of state and federal law and his cause of the
community loss of respect for and confidence in the chamber by
discriminatory practices – stealing opportunity and income from all of us –
and forcing his religion down our throats and using our tax money in the
process, are grounds, in and of themselves, for instant
dismissal.</FONT></FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>If the chamber
board refuses with the stubbornness and community insensitivity they have so
far exhibited to do these three simple steps, they will certainly be
surprised at the outrage and action that will pour forth from insulted and
concerned members of the community.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>/s/ Wayne A.
Fox</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>Wayne A.
Fox</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>1009 Karen
Lane</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>P.O. Box
9421</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>Moscow, ID
83843</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana size=+1>(208)
882-7975</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><A href="mailto:waf@moscow.com"><FONT
face=Verdana size=+1>waf@moscow.com</FONT></A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana
size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT
size=+1>______________________________</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1>From The<I> Daily
News</I></FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT
size=+1>______________________________</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1><B>COLUMN: Trying to live
peaceable lives in Moscow</B></FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1><I>Paul J.
Kimmell</I></FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1></FONT><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1>As a child, I would wander
through Philadelphia staring at the Liberty Bell and through Independence
Hall not knowing what that "experiment in liberty" was all about or that the
men who signed the Declaration of Independence had risked their lives,
fortunes, honor, and reputations for a very risky
proposition.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1>During my years of public
service, I've come to realize the great amount of scrutiny that one in such
a position is under. Much has been written of my dual roles of late, both as
a Latah County commissioner and as executive director of the Moscow Chamber
of Commerce.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1>Unlike some in the media and
in the community, I am accountable to all of you in one form or another. For
the record, I wish to respond to some of these recent attacks on my
character and the organizations I work for.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1>First of all, I want to assure
those of you involved in the chamber of commerce our financial situation is
not grim but in fact fairly healthy. In the 3 1/2 years I have been with the
organization, our bottom line has improved steadily. While some of our
numbers have been taken out of context, it is difficult to explain them
without looking at them as a whole and in one setting, which is what our
Executive/Finance Committee does every month. They have realized areas that
needed to be fine-tuned, and have provided great direction to our outside
bookkeeper, making sure each account is properly
categorized.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1>During this process, some
items have needed to be moved from the Chamber Foundation to the Chamber -
again, per the Executive/Finance Committee. That is what some of these
numbers that have been discussed reflect. This committee is well aware of
the Foundation's and the Chamber's status - none of these decisions have
been made without their direction, contrary to what some have implied. This
same volunteer-based committee and Chamber Board continue to provide this
important oversight while making suggestions as to how we provide our
membership and the community with quality services. This is a group of
small-business owners dedicated to improving and protecting Moscow's quality
of life and business.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1>I am also very proud of our
chamber staff and the tremendous amount of work they produce on behalf of
Moscow and its businesses. Like many of you, they're overworked and
underpaid, but I appreciate how well they represent this community when the
phone rings or a visitor stops in for travel
information.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1>As the community's "front
door," the chamber is often the first impression someone has of Moscow. We
take this responsibility seriously and we make sure it is a warm and
inviting one. We operate on a fairly small budget and we rely on the great
generosity of our business community to help us provide these
services.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1>Can we do better?
Absolutely.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1>I'm often reminded just how
fortunate we are to live in a place where crime is low, the air is clean and
the culture is abundant.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1>I am also very aware of the
importance in protecting these assets, our farms and farmlands, our forests
and lumber mills, our water and other resources, our businesses and
institutions and, most importantly, our people and our community's rich
heritage.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1>Moscow is a great community
full of genuine, caring and active citizens. I am thankful that I live in a
country where I have not needed to worry about liberty or freedom, that the
past and present sacrifices of those in the armed forces protect
us.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1>As of late, however, there has
been a small but loud group of displeased persons who claim tolerance, yet
they are showing how intolerant they are of other religious and/or moral
views.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1>It's important for me, and
others, to keep in mind the majority of us are trying to live in an area
that we are convinced is one of the best places on Earth to live and raise
our families.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1>I am concerned some have grown
suspicious of others in our community and harsh words have been expressed.
Accusations have been made about one another and those who have control of
the "public square."</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1>Moscow is far too good a town
for this kind of behavior to continue. Our founding fathers would have
expected more, and so should we.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE cite="" type="cite"><FONT size=+1>* Paul J. Kimmell is executive
director of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and a Latah County
commissioner.</FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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