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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>It is really quite simple.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Give an anonymous petition the respect and
acknowledgement it so rightfully deserves. NONE.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>These anonymous businesses have not
matured beyond the “Ding Dong Ditch It” stage of their immature
youth.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I vote for candidates who have backbones
and whose concepts I agree with. I apply this very same creed to petitions I
support.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Take care,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tom “I am” Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>A good friend will come and bail you out of
jail. But a true friend will be<br>
sitting next to you saying, "Damn . . . that was fun!"</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Kit Craine<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, December 29, 2004
10:28 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Bill London<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> vision2020@whale2.fsr.net<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] recall
petition</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>There were enough people
in <st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City> who were dissatisfied with the
decisions the previous council was making that they worked within our
constitutional system to a change our leadership by electing Chaney, <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Dickinson</st1:place></st1:City>, and Pall. Now
an unnamed group of "business owners" are demanding a recall of those
individuals. <br>
<br>
Why? Supposedly because they disagree with ONE decision the current council
made as part of the job they were elected to do.<br>
<br>
All without having to put their names on the line.<br>
<br>
Is this the democracy people are dying to establish in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>?<br>
<br>
Kit Craine<br>
<br>
On Dec 27, 2004, at 10:34 AM, Bill London wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><?fontfamily><?param Arial><?smaller> Gerald Weitz,
spokesperson for a group of local business owners who plan to remain
anonymous, is now selling some especially sleazy snakeoil. Weitz is
collecting signatures on a recall petition, hoping to drive John Dickinson,
Linda Pall and Nancy Chaney off the Moscow City Council (Daily News front page,
Dec. 23).<br>
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Weitz is angry since these three council members are thoughtfully examining
development plans, seeking the community's best interest and hoping to maintain
our quality of life, instead of rubberstamping any project like previous
council members did.<br>
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Weitz is very angry, and the irrationality of his position was
clearly revealed in his overblown rhetoric. For example, in the article,
Weitz was quoted as saying in reference to the three council members, "We
will crush them." <br>
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That level of irrational anger is the driving power behind this
petition. Some local business interests, who have enjoyed years of
virtually no oversight by <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>
city staff or council members, are very upset that their goal of more profit,
more houses, more roads, more of everything is now receiving some scrutiny by
our council representatives. So, they are venting their anger through
this recall petition.<br>
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If you care about the quality of life in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>,
don't sign this petition.<br>
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BL<br>
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serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br>
http://www.fsr.net <br>
mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>
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