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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'>Note to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
 w:st="on">Arnold</st1:City></st1:place> &#8211;<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'>In the manner of an old economic analogy:<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'>When your IQ breaks 70, sell.<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 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'>&quot;I think one of the best ways to
support education is to make successful private schools like Logos prosper
through tax exemption.&quot;<br>
<br>
- Donovan Arnold (July 11, 2005)</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'> Donovan Arnold
[mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, May 11, 2007 6:22 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Tom Hansen;
vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [Vision2020] Taxpayer
Rights</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hansen,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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12.0pt'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Very interesting. You do make me question the rational behind
a&nbsp;voting age. I wonder why it is that&nbsp;juveniles are not allowed to
vote and you are. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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12.0pt'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Maybe they should have a person's&nbsp;IQ&nbsp;number placed
on&nbsp;their driver's license. If it doesn't reach at least 85,&nbsp;or at
least one standard deviation from the norm,&nbsp;they have to wait
until&nbsp;they test higher on the WAIS-III. Come to think of it, in
retrospect, maybe they should add that&nbsp;requirement to the&nbsp;candidates
as well for double padded protection. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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12.0pt'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Donovan<br>
<br>
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Tom Hansen
&lt;thansen@moscow.com&gt;</span></i></b> wrote:<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'>Since <u1:City u2:st="on"><u1:place u2:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Arnold</u1:place></u1:City></st1:place></st1:City>
is so deeply concerned about disenfranchised voters, I have an idea.<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'><o:p>&nbsp;</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'>It is really quite simple.&nbsp; Everybody
votes.&nbsp; That&#8217;s right.&nbsp; EVERYBODY.&nbsp; Let&#8217;s eliminate
voter qualifications altogether.&nbsp; Illegal, shmillegal.<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'><o:p>&nbsp;</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&#8217;ll even take it another step
further, a giant step, a step that will even appease Christian fundamentalists,
since this step addresses those potential voters that have, for so long, gone
without representation.<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'><o:p>&nbsp;</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'>We should lower the voting age to
&#8220;moment of conception&#8221;.&nbsp; No.&nbsp; No.&nbsp; Listen up,
constituents.&nbsp; The expected mother will be able to vote on behalf of the
fetus &#8220;by proxy&#8221; until the day of delivery, at which time the new
born baby will register not only as a male or female, but as a Republican,
Democrat, or Independent (whatever party the mother desires).&nbsp; For
demographic reasons, and while the newly born child is a resident of a
politically recognized maternity ward, the baby will be issued a blanket whose
color will reflect the baby&#8217;s party affiliation (red for Republicans,
blue for Democrats, and green for Independents).&nbsp; <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'><o:p>&nbsp;</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 know what you&#8217;re thinking,
Visionaires.&nbsp; You&#8217;re thinking, &#8220;Jeesh, Tom!&nbsp; That sounds
absolutely stupid and ignorant.&#8221;&nbsp; <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'><o:p>&nbsp;</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'>Yes.&nbsp; To you it may, very well, sound
stupid and ignorant.&nbsp; That&#8217;s because you are an adult.&nbsp; You
probably don&#8217;t, or can&#8217;t, recall what it was like those first few
hours in the maternity ward, those pre-kindergarten day-care years, that first
day in the sandbox with other five-year-olds, each child quietly (yet
playfully) contemplating their socio-economic future.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p>&nbsp;</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 say, &#8220;Give them the vote!&#8221;<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'><o:p>&nbsp;</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'>Not only that, but the political
ramifications of lowering the voting age to &#8220;moment of conception&#8221;
would be far reaching and socially empowering.<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'><o:p>&nbsp;</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'>Once the voting age is lowered, and . . .
say, for instance, the Republicans realize that the demographics of New
York&#8217;s inner city reflect an ever-increasing Democrat contingency, they
can pursue a larger representation in that region by simply conceiving more and
more Republicans in New York&#8217;s inner city.&nbsp; Can you imagine the
exponential increase in Republican constituents in October of 2008 (one month
before election day) after the Yankees win the World, George Steinbrenner is
appointed Mayor-for-Life, and the new Victoria&#8217;s Secrets catalog hits the
newsstands?<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'><o:p>&nbsp;</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'>And on election day, the multitude of
wide-ranging analyses may be expanded to include &#8220;fetus electorate
demographics&#8221;, CNN reporting live from Maternity Election Headquarters at
<u1:place u2:st="on"><u1:PlaceName u2:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
 w:st="on">Gritman</u1:PlaceName></st1:PlaceName> <u1:PlaceName u2:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
 w:st="on">Medical</u1:PlaceName></st1:PlaceName> <u1:PlaceType u2:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
 w:st="on">Center</u1:PlaceType></u1:place></st1:PlaceType></st1:place> as they
count the number of red and blue blankets.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p>&nbsp;</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'>And then there are those fun fund-raisers.<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'>Seeya round town, <u1:City u2:st="on"><u1:place u2:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</u1:place></u1:City></st1:place></st1:City>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p>&nbsp;</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 Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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  color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
  color:navy'>Moscow</span></font></st1:City><font size=2 color=navy
 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'></u1:City>,
 <u1:State u2:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Idaho</u1:State></st1:State></span></font></st1:place><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><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'>&quot;I think one of the best ways to
support education is to make successful private schools like Logos prosper
through tax exemption.&quot;<br>
<br>
- Donovan Arnold (July 11, 2005)</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>

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