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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Doesn’t Lois Blackburn hold some
kind of leadership position in the MCA? If so, should she have labeled herself
as such in this letter?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>John</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b>
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Art Deco<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, January 05, 2005
7:46 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Vision 2020<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] 10-04-05
Daily News: LTTE by Lois Blackburn</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'>From: <em><i><font face="Times New Roman">Moscow-Pullman
Daily News</font></i></em>, 01-04-05 </span></font></p>
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<h2 style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:18.0pt'>'Sinister agenda' a real concern </span></font></b></h2>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'>Gerald Weitz cares about Moscow, has some very good
ideas, and has put his energy and money behind them. He worries about making
Moscow an attractive environment for good business. He has a valid concern for
our need for vocational-technical training in the high school. He has provided
a space for the alternative high school so that it could have its own building.
He has served on the Moscow School Board (although with a tendency to take his
marbles and go home when his ideas were ignored). He supported the Mayor's
Advisory Committee for the 1912 Building when that group worked so hard to get
the 1912 Center restoration under way. </span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'>However, </span></font><strong><b><font size=5
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>he sometimes behaves like
a small boy, lost with his rifle in the dark, firing away at the slightest
noise or shadow.</span></font></b></strong><font size=4><span style='font-size:
13.5pt'> In his recent letter to the editor attempting to justify his call for
a recall of half of the City Council, he gave a detailed list of his concerns
about education, which is the responsibility of the Moscow School District
rather than Linda Pall, Nancy Chaney, and John Dickinson. </span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'>Weitz also referred to "discrimination against
parochial elementary kids here in Moscow." Presumably, this refers to his
original justification for wanting a recall: these council members asked St.
Mary's School to go back to the drawing board on their gym plan, which had
required a conditional use permit and a list of variances. This was not
"discrimination against parochial students;" this was simply a
request that the project be scaled to follow the zoning requirements. My real
concern is that some group (not St. Mary's) with a sinister agenda has put
Weitz up to this nonsense. I hope the community has the sense to ignore it. </span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'>Lois Blackburn </span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'>Moscow </span></font></p>
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