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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana size=4>On
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"
/><st1:date Year="2004" Day="27" Month="8">August 27, 2004</st1:date>, a
pseudo-folksy column by Paul Kimmell appeared in the <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Daily News</I> [appended below].<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana size=4>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></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT face=Verdana><FONT
size=4>Discriminatory Hiring/Contracting
Practices<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana size=4>As
Executive Director of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce, Kimmell hired at least
five fellow Christ Church Culties as employees.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana size=4>One of
the culties hired was Kimmell's current wife, Connie.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Can you also say NEPOTISM?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[More about the Kimmell/Kimmel
connection at the chamber will be forthcoming in the posts on chamber
financials.]</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana size=4>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></P>
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size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">§<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><FONT face=Verdana>Hiring eight cultie children directly
without any attempt to find other children to do a special
project.</FONT></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">§<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><FONT face=Verdana>A disproportionate amount of catering
done by Zume, a cult member based business housed in the NSA tenement.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[Some chamber members are also not
enamored by the quality of the alleged comestibles served.]</FONT></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">§<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><FONT face=Verdana>A disproportionate number of
entertainments at chamber functions provided by Eric Engerbretson, a cultie and
cultie apologist.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[According to
some chamber members, a little of Eric goes a long way.]</FONT></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore">§<SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><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></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana size=4>As
county commissioner, Kimmell recently used his influence to help install a
cultie in a clerical position in the Latah County Courthouse.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT face=Verdana><FONT size=4>Effects of
Discriminatory Hiring/Contracting Practices<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana
size=4>Discrimination based on religious preference/practice is contrary to
state and federal law.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
especially true of public institutions and those organizations like the chamber
that thrive in part because of public tax monies received.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana size=4>There
are many secondary effects that can arise from this discriminatory misuse of
public money:</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana size=4>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.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These
agencies can use court action to force the return of such monies, if
necessary.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana
size=4>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></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana size=4>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.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just losing a little
goodwill can cause a public agency to lose a levy request or lose support for a
budget increase.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana size=4>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></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana><FONT
size=4><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">As for the pathetic chamber
website</B>, chamber members have been willfully and arrogantly ripped off.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Besides its marginal graphical design
and overall structural inadequacies, important parts of the website are
dysfunctional.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is no search
mechanism to find member businesses [Google provides such programming
free].<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can't even use the web
browser edit function to find a business since the business names, etc. occur in
graphic files!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Needless to say, the
information on the chamber website is out of date.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana size=4>A
professional could have created for the chamber a graphically and functionally
well designed website.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The website building and
cost from a professional?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Probably
under $5,000!</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana
size=4>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.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is con-artistry at its small town worst!</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana
size=4>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></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana
size=4>[Question:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana
size=4>Obviously, discrimination based on religious preference/practice is in
itself grossly unfair.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It steals
from everyone in the community both opportunity and possible income.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Therefore, this kind of discrimination
is little more than common theft and its perpetrator, Paul Kimmell, is little
more than a common thief.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These
discriminatory practices in the name of the chamber make that organization look
like a bunch of common thieves also.</FONT></P>
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size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana
size=4>Previous posters have described Kimmell and other some chamber board
members as very "community minded" and "nice."<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT face=Verdana><FONT size=4>Silence of
the Chamber Board<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana
size=4>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.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[At least one member, however, has said,
"It is none of the public's business."]</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana
size=4>Although the chamber board has been silent on this issue, one influential
past president of the chamber has commented. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jon Kimberling in a series of exchanges
with myself, made these remarks, perhaps speaking for the present
chamber:</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=4>”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.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Chamber board questioned him about
his hiring's. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is my belief that
he hired the best people for the job - some happened to be associated with the
church. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don't know about you but
I have a tendency to associate myself with people who have similar values. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is that so wrong?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>..."<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=4>"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.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=4>When I
said: "I have a tendency to associate myself with people who have similar
values," Is that so wrong? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was certainly no secret at the Chamber
and we were all encouraged to get the word out.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don't deny the appearance of
favoritism..."<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana size=4>The
sentence comparing Jon Kimberling's practices to Paul Kimmell's practices:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>"I have a tendency to associate myself
with people who have similar values.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>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></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT face=Verdana><FONT
size=4>Solution<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></P>
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size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana size=4>There
is a simple solution that any prudent business person would pursue when faced
with the problems described above.</FONT></P>
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size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .75in"><FONT
size=4><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore"><FONT face=Verdana>1.</FONT><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></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></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .75in"><FONT
size=4><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore"><FONT face=Verdana>2.</FONT><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></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></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .75in"><FONT
size=4><SPAN
style="mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana"><SPAN
style="mso-list: Ignore"><FONT face=Verdana>3.</FONT><SPAN
style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><FONT face=Verdana>Immediately dismiss Paul Kimmell as
executive director.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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></P>
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size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Verdana size=4>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></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face=Verdana><FONT size=4>/s/ Wayne A. Fox<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Freestyle Script'"><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face=Verdana><FONT size=4><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Wayne A.
Fo</SPAN>x<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face=Verdana><FONT size=4>1009 Karen Lane<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT
face=Verdana><FONT size=4>P.O. Box 9421<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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face=Verdana><FONT size=4>Moscow, ID<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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face=Verdana><FONT size=4>(208) 882-7975<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p><FONT size=4>From The
<EM>Daily News</EM></FONT></o:p></P>
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size=4>______________________________</FONT></o:p></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=4>COLUMN:
Trying to live peaceable lives in Moscow<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=4>Paul J.
Kimmell<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=4>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. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=4>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. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=4>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. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=4>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. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=4>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.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=4>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. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=4>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.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=4>Can we do better?
Absolutely. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=4>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. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=4>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.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=4>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.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=4>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.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=4>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.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=4>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." <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=4>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. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT size=4>* Paul J. Kimmell is
executive director of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and a Latah County
commissioner. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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