<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Carl,<div><br></div><div>You missed my point about the 20 feet!</div><div>The INCUMBENT council president voted to keep smokers 20 feet from the front door, he got his wish, no smoking in bars and clubs.</div><div>And I got my wish, him OUT OF ELECTED OFFICE. A fair trade.</div><div><br></div><div>And when SI named The Corner Club one of the "Top 25 Sports Bars" you could still smoke there!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 4, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Carl Westberg wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Well, Wayne, think what you will of the Corner Club, but it will still be standing (and serving beer) long after the rest of the world is but a distant memory. Wayne, I sense you apparently could not care less about sports, but did you know that in 2005, Sports Illustrated named our local long standing establishment one of the "Top 25 sports bars in the United States"? True...as the writer said....<br>Corner Club<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="Moscow" href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/topic/article/Moscow/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm">Moscow</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="Idaho" href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/topic/article/Idaho/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm">Idaho</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>A CAREFREE atmosphere (perhaps enhanced by the traditional 32-ounce beer glasses) prevails at this popular<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="University of Idaho" href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/topic/article/University_of_Idaho/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm">University of Idaho</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>hangout, which opened in 1948. Consider that for much of its history, the most famous item in the bar was a nail hammered into a ceiling beam, daring anyone to try to match the 11'3" leap made by former<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="Idaho Vandals" href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/topic/article/Idaho_Vandals/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm">Vandals</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>basketball star<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="Gus Johnson" href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/topic/article/Gus_Johnson/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/index.htm">Gus Johnson</a>. The mark stood for 23 years until it was equaled by Southern Idaho's Joey Johnson (Gus's cousin) in 1986. (The nail was removed in 1991 when half the bar was torn down to make room for a freeway, but the stories are still told fondly.)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>> From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:bear@moscow.com">bear@moscow.com</a><br>> To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a><br>> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:01:23 -0800<br>> CC:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What? (local and recent)<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Avoid the Corner Club? Tom, I wouldn't get within 20 feet of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> place! *S*<br>> Thats the way the INCUMBENT wanted it, now let him live with it!<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> On Nov 4, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Tom Hansen wrote:<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > "In fact, 53 people who turned up to vote yesterday did not cast a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > vote<br>> > for either Weber or Chaney. I was one of those. If Weber had acted<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> > like a<br>> > conservative during the last City Council cycle, he’d be mayor today,<br>> > plain and simple."<br>> ><br>> > - Dale Courtney (November 4, 2009<br>> ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://right-mind.us/blogs/blog_0/archive/2009/11/04/70625.aspx">http://right-mind.us/blogs/blog_0/archive/2009/11/04/70625.aspx</a><br>> ><br>> > ------------------------------------------------------<br>> ><br>> > Special note to the "We 53":<br>> ><br>> > Thank you for following your consciences. 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