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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>While I think Rose has overstated the problem with
today's Daily News editorial (the edit is reprinted below), Rose is essentially
correct.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>These 3 Republicans refused (at the last minute) to
attend a public debate, basically because they thought they might get some hard
questions. That is certaily not a good enough reason. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Candidates need to respond to all their
constituents. Republicans should not ignore the progressives who may or
may not have called into KRFP. Their choice to bail on the debate was
cowardly and wrong.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Is this the end of democracy as we know it?
Nope, but it sure doesn't help slow the slide to incivility and "us and them"
thinking. Rozen needed to pass on the cheap jokes and admonish those
3 Republicans.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>BL</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>
<H1>Moscow-Pullman Daily News - DNews.com</H1>
<H2>OUR VIEW: The end of democracy in Latah - or not</H2>
<P>By Lee Rozen, for the editorial board<BR>October 30, 2010</P>
<P>Three right-of-center candidates scheduled to appear on left-of-center radio
station KRFP, known as Radio Free Moscow, cancelled at the last minute this week
or simply didn't show up.</P>
<P>How dare these candidates not show up as scheduled to be lectured to by
KRFP's listeners and asked loaded and pointed questions about their religious as
well as their political views!</P>
<P>The chattering class to the left of center sees this as the end of democracy
in Latah County. </P>
<P>It isn't. </P>
<P>It may speak to the candidates' courage or lack thereof in answering the
tough questions, as the progressives would have it. Or it may speak to their
good political sense, deciding to spend time campaigning where they might have a
chance to win some votes instead of being eviscerated by those who will never
vote for them.</P>
<P>All three candidates, Gresham Bouma, Isaac "Ike" Young and Bill Goesling, had
already shown up at every one of the candidate forums that had been scheduled
from Moscow to Deary and points between.</P>
<P>Let's face it, by this week many, if not most, of us have already voted or,
at least, pretty well made up our mind on who gets our black oval. And, besides
that, KRFP doesn't have the largest audience around.</P>
<P>We think that, if anything, these no-shows should get demerits for lack of
courtesy, both to KRFP and its listeners, who thought - until showtime - that
they would soon hear some fireworks.</P>
<P>Now, Young's opponent, Shirley Ringo, makes the point that she has gone to
every candidate forum, even those that weren't particularly sympathetic to her
as a Democrat. Well, so did these three Republicans.</P>
<P>Oddly enough, no one seems to be particularly upset that Goesling didn't show
up for his time on the radio. But then he is the only one of the three not
claiming to have nasty mailings sent out against him.</P>
<P>Some on the left seem to find insult in the very fact that ones as
conservative in all aspects of their lives as Bouma and Young are running for
office. </P>
<P>We don't.</P>
<P>They give us voters some very clear choices. It is quite obvious in Bouma's
race against Dan Schmidt and in Young's race against Ringo who is the
conservative and who is the liberal.</P>
<P>That should make it much easier for you to make up your mind for whom to
vote.</P></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=donaldrose@cpcinternet.com
href="mailto:donaldrose@cpcinternet.com">Rosemary</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">'Moscow Vision 2020'</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, October 30, 2010 6:25
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Feeling the need to
be patronized?</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>I had great hopes that under a new editor the Daily News
would move beyond their sycophantic affection for make believe colleges,
bearded men, and right-wing political loonies. I was within millimeters
of re-subscribing, Luckily I decided to wait until the election season
was over before offering financial support to a news organization that
has been so disappointing in recent years. After reading the editorial in the
DN this morning I’m glad I waited. Jackassery is alive and well on
Jackson Street. And, I’m not willing to pay for the privilege of being
patronized by the new kid on the block.<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Rose Huskey<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P></DIV>
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