<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">And if this is one of the current Governor's "education" priorities, something really stinks in Boise, and it isn't BSU!!!!<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 Jul 28, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Paul Rumelhart 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-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; font-size: medium; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I don't really care one way or the other if this "rivalry" continues. I certainly can't see myself looking down on total strangers based on whether or not they are affiliated with a school that has a sports team I don't like. Maybe when I was in the third grade I could work up that sort of moral outrage about it, but I've since laid down that mantle and have moved on with my life. I think I'm better off for it.<br><br>Paul<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">From:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tom Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">thansen@moscow.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">To:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Moscow Vision 2020 <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">vision2020@moscow.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Cc:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Kathy Judson <<a href="mailto:ponysnpups@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">ponysnpups@gmail.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Sent:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wed, July 28, 2010 12:29:27 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Subject:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Vision2020] Governor Otter's Screwed Up Priorities<br></font><br><div class="Section1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">Courtesy of the Idaho Statesman at:</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span><a target="_blank" href="http://tinyurl.com/Otter-Idaho-BSU" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://tinyurl.com/Otter-Idaho-BSU</a></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: medium; border-right-width: medium; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: none; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0in; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; border-top-width: medium; border-right-width: medium; border-bottom-width: medium; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">Gov. Otter to explore options for saving Boise State-Idaho football game</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">Brian Murphy and Dan Popkey - Idaho Statesman</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">One day after Boise State University president Bob Kustra blasted Idaho fans and declared the annual Broncos-Vandals rivalry game all but dead, Idaho Gov. Butch Otter said he would explore options for keeping the game going.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">“I think it’s healthy, I think it’s a good thing for us to have and I think it’s a great tradition that we’ve had,” Otter said before the Boise Metro Chamber luncheon where he was seated at the head table with Kustra. “… I hope we can do everything we can do to make it continue.”</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">Boise State is leaving the Western Athletic Conference for the Mountain West Conference on July 1, 2011. Idaho is a member of the WAC.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">“I don’t know what my options are, what my authorities are,” said Otter, who played spring football at then-Boise Junior College in 1964 but never played in a game. “Personally, I’m all for it. Administratively, I don’t know what my authorities are.”</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">Otter said he would have his attorney, David Hensley, explore his options.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">Kustra told the Idaho Statesman’s editorial board that he refuses to travel to Moscow for games because “it’s a culture that is nasty, inebriated and civilly doesn’t give our fans the respect that any fan should expect when visiting an away game.” Boise State coach Chris Petersen said Monday that he does not want to visit Moscow for games.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">“Why should we?” he said. “I don’t think our fans even like to go up there.”</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">Kustra continued: “I frankly don’t care whether we ever play ’em again as long as it goes.”</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">Idaho coach Robb Akey suggested Monday that the governor may have to get involved to save the rivalry.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">“It’s a good thing for our state. It’s a good thing for both schools,” Akey told reporters at the WAC football preview in Salt Lake City. “I’m a proponent of keeping that thing going. It’s going to come down to the two universities and maybe the governor saying, ‘Hey, this is an important game that needs to be played and needs to be played home and home or not at all.' ”</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">Otter said he wants the rivalry to continue.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">“I want them to do it for the right reason. I really think they’ve always done it for the right reason in the past because they’ve enjoyed the spirit, they’ve enjoyed the energy, the enthusiasm that builds for it,” Otter said.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: medium; border-right-width: medium; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: none; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 0in; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; border-top-width: medium; border-right-width: medium; border-bottom-width: medium; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">Hey, I’m as much a Vandal “fan”atic as the next guy (even more so) and I, too, would like to keep this rivalry alive.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">But . . .</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">Where does Governor Otter stand on more important issues, such as THE HIGHWAY 12/EXXON-MOBIL ISSUE and THE UPPER LOCHSA LAND EXCHANGE?</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">Or aren’t those issues worth his time?</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">Seeya at the games AND the Highway 12/Upper Lochsa Land Exchange discussions, V-peeps.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: sans-serif; ">Tom Hansen</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; 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