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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’ve appreciated reading everyone’s comments, and I’m glad this topic came up here on the Viz! As a new Daily News re-subscriber (I originally subscribed in 1988), I’m grateful for the opportunity to add my comments.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>First, I want to thank the Daily News editorial staff for reminding me that the GOP's Bill Goesling was also a no show for his scheduled KRFP. I noticed it at the time, but Pollyanna that I am, I was willing to accept his excuse at face value. Mind you, I didn't think it boded well that someone who thought himself responsible enough to serve as county commissioner lacked basic organizational skills to keep his scheduling straight.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In my mind, Goesling's no show was in a different category than the subsequent lily livered no shows of wannabes Bouma & Young. After reading Rozen's editorial, however, I'm grateful to have my recollection refreshed in advance of Election Day, and with plenty of time to remind others that for whatever reason (likely poor turnout by moderate GOP primary voters), the GOP wound up with a slate of candidates who lack the backbone to face – even remotely over the air waves -- constituents they hope to represent.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Honestly, only those completely blinded by partisanship would knowingly vote for those who think it appropriate to run & hide from their potential constituents unless the alternative was someone like a convicted felon, don’t you think? I mean, we sometimes see those antics from our elected officials <b>after</b> they're in office, but to see such reprehensible behavior from local candidates before the election? No. The Latah County GOP has clearly failed the community this go-round by propping up candidates that don't deserve to be elected officials, and I thank the Daily News editorial for helping us to connect those dots, however belatedly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Second, my take on Rozen's editorial was a little different than most: I read it as a somewhat classic -- albeit lame -- attempt to gloss over missing the <b>real </b>story, which is that 3/5s of the GOP candidates chickened out of their previously scheduled KRFP time with their Democrat opponents.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In other markets with competent print journalism, news media rightly covers candidate debates. Here? Not so much, or we'd have read about the GOP’s pattern of no-shows/last minute cancellations in a <b>NEWS</b> story rather than in an editorial. It's <b>NEWS</b> when 3/5s of the scheduled GOP candidates back out of their commitments to answer questions from voters, and I viewed Rozen's pathetic dig at KRFP & its listeners really a nothing more than a shameful mean-spirited smoke & mirrors ploy. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Further, if we had competent print journalism in our community newspaper, an on-the-ball editor likely would have directed reporters, it seems to me, to tie this pattern by local Republican Tea Party candidates into the national pattern of Tea Party candidates shunning not only their potential constituents, but also running away – in some cases, literally – from journalists attempting to get answers to perfectly legitimate questions. That yellow-bellied “campaign strategy” is <b>NEWS</b> when it happens nationally, and it’s <b>NEWS</b> when it happens locally. Voters deserve to know if those wanting our votes are really only interested in preaching to the choir or do they have what it takes to represent a diverse constituency. With Bouma and Young – and perhaps with Goesling – it’s obviously the former.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Third, if the shoe had been on the other foot – had Democrats bailed at the last minute on scheduled forums or debates sponsored by New St. Andrews or the GMA or some venue where the candidates perceived that the audience might ask hard-hitting questions or thought the audience might be too small to bother with – I suspect we’d see a double-standard at work, as we’ve historically seen with the Daily News in recent years. Dems no-showing would have been a <b>NEWS</b> story. Had an editorial been written, the tone would have rightly taken the no-showers to task rather than shooting the messengers. It’s even likely those offended would have been offered a guest editorial PDQ to run immediately and definitely before the election.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Fourth, the Daily News’ Rozen wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>"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."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ouch! Coming from a family with deep conservative roots, it's insulting that the Daily News apparently can't tell the difference between genuine conservatism and the reactionary theocracy-leaning extremism of Bouma & Young. If you want to use quick & dirty labels, please take care to use them correctly, which wasn't done in this editorial. There <b>is</b> a clear difference between Schmidt & Bouma, and Ringo & Young, but it’s not one that can accurately be characterized as a different between liberal & conservative.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Fifth, Rozen also wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>"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."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>While the second half of that sentence isn't <b>completely</b> inaccurate, the first half is, which shows little understanding of the Latah County electorate. While I don't think many -- other than those wingnuts who imagine virtually non-existent voter fraud in Idaho under every pebble -- object to having choices about where, when, and how to vote, Latah County residents who vote do so overwhelmingly (somewhere in the 80-91+</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>/</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>- % range) <b>in person and on Election Day.</b> While that local reality seems to have escaped Rozen & his editorial team, this is why candidate forums are scheduled throughout the silly season and not just weeks in advance. The scheduling, it seems to me, is particularly crucial in markets like this when journalists do such an anemic reporting job, generally speaking, and routinely miss important local stories.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Further, current knowledge indicates that early voters tend to be the most partisan and also older as a whole. Thus, bailing out on candidate forums closer to the election is a real disservice not only to those who worked to make them happen, but also to younger and more moderate voters wanting to vote with the most recent knowledge possible, and thus, to our communities as a whole. It’s too bad Rozen’s editorial completely overlooked this significant disservice to more moderate and to younger voters by the majority of the local GOP candidates by missing the forest for the trees.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Finally, for anyone who managed to read all the way through this, you’ve earned a gold star and my gratitude for your tolerance of my long-windedness!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Saundra Lund<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Moscow, ID<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>~ Edmund Burke<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>***** Original material contained herein is Copyright 2010 through life plus 70 years, Saundra Lund. Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce outside the Vision 2020 forum without the express written permission of the author.*****<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>From: vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] On Behalf Of Sue Hovey<br>Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 9:38 AM<br>To: Joe Campbell; Rosemary<br>Cc: Moscow Vision 2020; alford@dnews.com; mcbride@lmtribune.com; lrozen@dnews.com<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Feeling the need to be patronized?</p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>As one of the "chattering class to the left of center," it's quite a stretch the editor would interpret our concerns over the Republican no-shows as, "the end of democracy in Latah County." I don't believe that, and <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>certainly it was never even implied--that's the editor's take. Mr. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Rozen's spin over our conversation is silly on the one hand and patronizing on the other. There was a concern, one we thought the paper might want to address, the conversation was friendly, and I thought the editor was going to mull it over and respond or not. That was fine. The point was made. The resulting editorial leads me to believe that somewhere along the line Mr. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Rozen matriculated from the Spiro Agnew, "natttering nabobs of negativism," <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>school of journalism.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Sue Hovey<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>From: Joe Campbell<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 8:25 AM<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>To: Rosemary<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Cc: Moscow Vision 2020 ; alford@dnews.com ; mcbride@lmtribune.com ; lrozen@dnews.com<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Feeling the need to be patronized?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>I'm with you Rose. I heard the DN had changed its tune and decided to renew my subscription -- a month ago and they still have not delivered a paper! What's worse than a news paper that serves a single party?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>One that insults folks from the other party! A summary of Mr. Rozen's<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>argument: "Progressives don't need to be able to ask questions of politicians who might serve them because the public has already made up its mind!" What if the progressive candidates stood up NSA? That would be uncalled for! 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