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One wonders how they're able to produce much of anything with heads buried so deeply in the sand -- or elsewhere.<br><br><font style="" color="#8064a2"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><font style="" face="Verdana">Keely<br>www.keely-prevailingwinds.com<br></font></font></font><br><br><br><br>> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:40:27 -0700<br>> From: thansen@moscow.com<br>> To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>> Subject: [Vision2020] The End of Democracy in Latah - or Not<br>> <br>> Courtesy of today's (October 30, 2010) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.<br>> <br>> ---------------------------------------------------------<br>> <br>> OUR VIEW: The end of democracy in Latah - or not<br>> By Lee Rozen, for the editorial board<br>> <br>> Three right-of-center candidates scheduled to appear on left-of-center<br>> radio station KRFP, known as Radio Free Moscow, cancelled at the last<br>> minute this week or simply didn't show up.<br>> <br>> How dare these candidates not show up as scheduled to be lectured to by<br>> KRFP's listeners and asked loaded and pointed questions about their<br>> religious as well as their political views!<br>> <br>> The chattering class to the left of center sees this as the end of<br>> democracy in Latah County.<br>> <br>> It isn't.<br>> <br>> It may speak to the candidates' courage or lack thereof in answering the<br>> tough questions, as the progressives would have it. Or it may speak to<br>> their good political sense, deciding to spend time campaigning where they<br>> might have a chance to win some votes instead of being eviscerated by<br>> those who will never vote for them.<br>> <br>> All three candidates, Gresham Bouma, Isaac "Ike" Young and Bill Goesling,<br>> had already shown up at every one of the candidate forums that had been<br>> scheduled from Moscow to Deary and points between.<br>> <br>> Let's face it, by this week many, if not most, of us have already voted<br>> or, at least, pretty well made up our mind on who gets our black oval.<br>> And, besides that, KRFP doesn't have the largest audience around.<br>> <br>> We think that, if anything, these no-shows should get demerits for lack of<br>> courtesy, both to KRFP and its listeners, who thought - until showtime -<br>> that they would soon hear some fireworks.<br>> <br>> Now, Young's opponent, Shirley Ringo, makes the point that she has gone to<br>> every candidate forum, even those that weren't particularly sympathetic to<br>> her as a Democrat. Well, so did these three Republicans.<br>> <br>> Oddly enough, no one seems to be particularly upset that Goesling didn't<br>> show up for his time on the radio. But then he is the only one of the<br>> three not claiming to have nasty mailings sent out against him.<br>> <br>> Some on the left seem to find insult in the very fact that ones as<br>> conservative in all aspects of their lives as Bouma and Young are running<br>> for office.<br>> <br>> We don't.<br>> <br>> They give us voters some very clear choices. It is quite obvious in<br>> Bouma's race against Dan Schmidt and in Young's race against Ringo who is<br>> the conservative and who is the liberal.<br>> <br>> That should make it much easier for you to make up your mind for whom to<br>> vote.<br>> <br>> ---------------------------------------------------------<br>> <br>> Translation: Why is everybody always pickin' on me?<br>> <br>> You see, Mr. Rozen. When you run for public office, you should realize<br>> that, sometimes, you are going to meet people that simply do not agree<br>> with you.<br>> <br>> What separates the riff from the raff is how a candidate interacts with<br>> those people that do not agree with him/her. Because, Mr. Rozen, like it<br>> or not, those people are part of your constituency.<br>> <br>> In interacting with that portion of the constituency that disagrees with<br>> the candidate, the candidate can either step up to the plate and respond<br>> to questions with honest heart-felt conviction or they can run and hide.<br>> <br>> If you can't swim, stay out of the pool.<br>> <br>> Seeya at the polls, Moscow.<br>> <br>> Tom Hansen<br>> Moscow, Idaho<br>> <br>> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change<br>> and the Realist adjusts his sails."<br>> <br>> - Unknown<br>> <br>> <br>> =======================================================<br>> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br>> http://www.fsr.net <br>> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>> =======================================================<br> </body>
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