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This mans actions are uncalled for. Bigots? What? Again lets clean it up people. <br><br><blockquote><hr>From: jeanlivingston@turbonet.com<br>To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:06:48 -0700<br>Subject: [Vision2020] MCA-endorsed candidates called "bigots"<br><br>
<div><font face="Arial"><a href="http://www.dnews.com/story/local/24564/" target="_blank"><img title="News photo" style="border: 1px solid black; width: 260px;" src="http://www.dnews.com/images/1147096.jpg"></a><font face="Times New Roman">
<br></font><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; font-family: verdana;">Geoff
Crimmins/Daily News </span><span style="font-size: 10px; padding-top: 0px; font-family: verdana;">
Tom Ivie, right, talks with Dave Glasebrook, center, and Aly Lamar at the
intersection of Third and Main streets in Moscow on Monday.<BR>
<h2>Protest draws questions, counter arguments</h2>
<p style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Claim
of bigotry brings reaction from candidates, families </p>
<p style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px;">By Tara Roberts
Daily News staff writer</p>
<p style="font-size: 10px;">Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - Page
Updated at 12:00:00 AM</p><span style="font-size: 14px;">
Dave Glasebrook says the sign he carried downtown Monday isn't political or
connected to any political group.<BR>
"This is a religious protest," said Glasebrook, whose sign read "Vote for the
Bigot Party, Ament, Lamar and Pall."<BR>
Incumbent Moscow City Council members Aaron Ament and Linda Pall are up for
re-election Nov. 6. Tom Lamar, who was appointed to the council in June, is also
running for a four-year council seat.<BR>
Glasebrook's protest took place Monday morning and evening at the corner of
Third and Main streets and drew several question-asking bystanders. In the
evening, there was a counter-demonstration by Lamar's wife, Aly, and daughter,
Brya.<BR>
Glasebrook, a Christ Church member and professional pilot, said Ament, Lamar
and Pall are part of a long-running vendetta against Christ Church. He said the
City Council's decisions on issues such as the boardinghouse ordinance and
zoning restrictions for Christ Church-affiliated New St. Andrews College are
examples of bigotry.<BR>
He also carried a copy of a flier that was passed around town in August in
protest of the church's Trinity Festival. The flier states that Christ Church,
NSA and other affiliated organizations are "racist, sexist and homophobic." He
said the flier was distributed by people who are allied with Ament, Lamar and
Pall.<BR>
Glasebrook said his protest was not on behalf of Christ Church as a whole or
any other group. He said he chose to use political terms on the sign because
people wouldn't understand a strictly religious protest.<BR>
Glasebrook said the people listed on his sign are "going to get at (Christ
Church Pastor Douglas) Wilson no matter how they can."<BR>
"For two years our City Council has focused on fighting Christ Church. Christ
Church isn't fighting back," he said.<BR>
Glasebrook said he did not include the names of other people who have
supported issues he views as anti-Christ Church on the sign because he didn't
have room.<BR>
He said he does not intend to have any effect on the election, and that only
God would be able to affect the results.<BR>
Aly Lamar said she spoke with Glasebrook on Monday evening before leaving in
tears. She returned later with signs in support of Tom Lamar to "offer the other
side."<BR>
"It's one thing to be pro-candidates. It's another thing to be against and
name calling. ... It's not good politics," she said. "My feelings are hurt. I
don't think it's a good way to go about getting his message across."<BR>
Aly Lamar said she was not concerned with how Glasebrook's sign would affect
the election.<BR>
"If anything it will support those candidates (on the sign)," she said.<BR>
Brya Lamar, a senior at Moscow High School, later joined the counter-protest.
Aly Lamar also added signs in support of Ament.<BR>
Brya Lamar said she does not believe her father deserved the accusations on
the sign.<BR>
"I don't think he's prejudiced about any of that," she said.<BR>
Ament stopped by the demonstrations briefly on his way to another
appointment.<BR>
"(Glasebrook) has the right to express his opinion," Ament said. "He's
absolutely incorrect. I think his definition of a bigot as anyone who doesn't
agree with him is pretty wrong, but he's entitled to that opinion."<BR>
Linda Pall said she drove by the protest and felt "profoundly
disappointed."<BR>
"I would have to say that the last person to be called a bigot in this town
should be me," Pall said. "I was the author of Moscow's most recent diversity
resolution. I was the original mover and shaker to create a Human Rights
Commission. I've been on the Latah County Human Rights Task Force since we've
had one." <BR>
When New St. Andrew's and Bucer's coffee shop were "under attack" for their
connection to Christ Church, she supported them against boycotts, Pall said.<BR>
Evan Holmes, who is running for a two-year City Council seat, said Pall was
one of the least bigoted people in the history of Moscow. He does not believe
the protests will effect the elections.<BR>
"We're a pretty tolerant town," Holmes said. "We're even tolerant of
protestors."<BR>
Holmes' opponent for the two-year seat, Walter Steed, and the other four-year
candidates, Dan Carscallen and Wayne Krauss, said they recognize Glasebrook's
right to protest but are not affiliated with his efforts.<BR>
"I don't condone it, but I guess I don't condemn it either," Carscallen
said.<BR>
He said those who don't agree with Glasebrook should leave his protest alone
and it likely will go away.<BR>
"We've been civil amongst ourselves through all of this," Steed said. "I'd
like to continue that way."<BR>
Krauss said he thinks the protest "will add to the divisive climate that we
now have."<BR>
"All of the candidates for City Council have run an honorable race, and I
hope the voters will see this is a one-man protest," he said.<BR>
Tara Roberts can be reached at (208) 882-5561, ext. 234, or by e-mail at <a href="mailto:troberts@dnews.com">troberts@dnews.com</a>.<BR>
<p class="EC_MsoNormal" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><a target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; text-decoration: none;"><img id="EC_Picture_x0020_5" alt="http://www.lmtribune.com/images/1077020.jpg" src="http://gfx1.hotmail.com/mail/w2/pr02/ltr/i_safe.gif" border="0" height="265" width="402"></span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"></span></p>
<p class="EC_photo-caption1" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><br>Dave Glasebrook,
holding the yellow sign, staged a campaign protest and triggered a
</span></p>
<p class="EC_photo-caption1" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">counter-protest at
the corner of Main and Third streets in downtown Moscow on Monday
evening.</span></p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">
<p class="EC_photo-caption1" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><font size="5"><strong>Moscow city politics take a turn for the
personal</strong></font></span></p><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">
<font size="3"><strong>Sign-wielding protester takes aim at
three incumbents and draws response from wife of one candidate and
councilor</strong></font><BR>
<p class="EC_byline"><font size="3">By David Johnson </font></p>
<p class="EC_date"><font size="3">Tuesday, October 30,
2007</font></p>
<font size="3">MOSCOW - The campaign for city council here
took what some were calling a tawdry turn Monday evening when a Moscow man
displayed a sign alleging bigotry against three incumbents.</font><BR>
<font size="3">"This is a Christian protest, not a vote
protest," Dave Glasebrook said. "My big problem is that here in Moscow there's
been 20 years' worth of strife with Doug Wilson and Christ Church."</font><BR>
<font size="3">Standing on the sidewalk at the intersection
of Main and Third streets, Glasebrook carried a yellow sign that read: "Vote the
Bigot Party - Ament, Lamar, Pall." He said the slogan was a sarcastic way to
raise public awareness.</font><BR>
<font size="3">Aaron Ament, Tom Lamar and Linda Pall are
incumbents running for re-election. Glasebrook claimed the three are part of a
continued campaign by city government to harass Wilson, his church and New Saint
Andrews College located in downtown Moscow.</font><BR>
<font size="3">"If I stand up and say Christian men in
America need to get on their knees and pray in order to change how America is,
in order to change what's going on in Moscow, Lewiston and Idaho, people won't
understand that," Glasebrook said.</font><BR>
<font size="3">So he decided to take to the street with his
sign, attracting the attention of motorists and pedestrians including Lamar's
wife, Aly Lamar, who stopped to mount a counter-demonstration.</font><BR>
<font size="3">"I'm here because I was riding my bicycle
home on Main Street and I saw Dave holding this sign and it really took me by
surprise that he was calling my husband, as well as other candidates, a bigot,"
Lamar said, explaining she returned with one of her husband's campaign signs to
stand next to Glasebrook.</font><BR>
<font size="3">Aly Lamar said Glasebrook told her a number
of reasons for his protest that boiled down to claiming her husband voted with
Ament and Pall on various issues against Wilson, Christ Church and NSA. "So I
discussed that with him a little bit, and got worked up and started crying and
frustrated and wanted to do something." After realizing she and Glasebrook
couldn't agree, Lamar said she decided to go on the offensive.</font><BR>
<font size="3">"So I thought if he's going to have signs
and visit with passers-by saying Tom is a bigot I wanted to be here to let them
know, in fact, that Tom is not a bigot," Lamar said.</font><BR>
<font size="3">Glasebrook claimed Ament, in particular,
overtly tried to force NSA out of the downtown area. He said he was staging the
protest on his own, not for or at the behest of Wilson, or anyone associated
with Christ Church or NSA. "This is to open people's eyes, saying look at the
bigotry in Moscow. Look at what's going on." He said the city council is "not
getting after the Muslims" or any other faith, and that amounts to religious
bigotry.</font><BR>
<font size="3">"I just hope God will use this sign and do
something," Glasebrook said. "I can't change Aaron's heart. I can't make him do
something. I can't convince Tom to do something. But I can get on my knees and I
can pray that God will lead them to make right decisions, not just decisions
that are working against one group of Christians in town."</font><BR>
<font size="3">Ament showed up and offered a terse take on
Glasebrook's protest. "I think of the two of us, the one that's guilty (of
bigotry) is the one holding the sign," Ament said. "My major crime is that I
don't tolerate intolerance and that's what I've been hung with. And I will never
tolerate intolerance."</font><BR>
<font size="3">Pall could not be reached for
comment.</font><BR>
<font size="3">---</font><BR>
<em><font size="3">Johnson may be
contacted at </font></em><em><font size="3"><a href="mailto:deveryone@potlatch.com">deveryone@potlatch.com</a> or (208)
883-0564.</font></em><BR></span></span></span></span></font></div>
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