<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>I agree with Rep. Ringo and Mr. Hansen. I think Rep. Trail is a good person who does stand for education but is a moderate Republican, not a Democrat. </DIV>
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<DIV>The Republican Party as of late has behaved like a rabid dog foaming at the mouth as it tears into funding for the persons with disabilities and education. However, just because the Republican Party has gone Cujo doesn't mean that Rep. Trail is suddenly a Democrat. </DIV>
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<DIV>If the Republican Party thinks that Rep. Trail's seat can be exchanged for a more conservative Republican, they are again, sadly in error. If Trail's seat is taken from him it will go to a Democrat, not back to a tea toting Republican. </DIV>
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<DIV>I think that Rep. Trail has a chance at winning the Republican nomination because most of the Republicans in Latah are smart, educated, sane, agree with Trail on most issues and understand the seat will go Democrat if Trail loses the nomination. I also believe that many Democrats and Independents will donate heavily to his campaign and try to destroy the credibility of any anti-education funding Tea Party opponent his faces. </DIV>
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<DIV>Donovan Arnold</DIV>
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<DIV> <BR><BR>--- On <B>Thu, 4/7/11, Bill London <I><london@moscow.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Bill London <london@moscow.com><BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fw: Tom Trail Loses Chairmanship of House Agriculture Committee<BR>To: "Tom Hansen" <thansen@moscow.com>, "Shirley Ringo" <ringoshirl@moscow.com>, "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com><BR>Date: Thursday, April 7, 2011, 4:14 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>Tom Trail may want to continue as the Republican Representative but he faces <BR>a vindictive and mean-spirited party that has been hijacked by extremist <BR>conservatives. Trail is increasingly marginalized -- now he was dumped from <BR>the one lowly chairmanship he was given.<BR>The Republican hard-cores have already targeted Trail in their plan to <BR>purify the party. They have changed the rules governing how we vote in <BR>primaries to make it easier to dump moderates like Trail.<BR>The combination of those two elements (1- frozen out of power in Boise, and <BR>2 - changing rules to increase party purity) means its very unlikely Trail <BR>will survive the next primary. Sad. BL<BR><BR>-----Original Message----- <BR>From: Tom Hansen<BR>Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 3:16 PM<BR>To: Shirley Ringo ; Moscow Vision 2020<BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] <SPAN>Fw</SPAN>: Tom Trail Loses Chairmanship of House
<BR>Agriculture Committee<BR><BR>Representative Shirley "The Lady From Six" Ringo accentuates:<BR><BR>"This action towards Tom Trail represents the continuation of a mean<BR>spirited attitude that reflects negatively upon House leadership."<BR><BR>For somebody to reflect "negatively upon House leadership" in Idaho, they<BR>would have to almost commit crimes against humanity<BR><BR>After having discussed this off-list with Rep. Tom "T-Man" Trail, he<BR>assures me that he will continue to occupy Seat 6A as a caring,<BR>constituency-oriented moderate Republican in the Idaho House of<BR>Representatives long after the Tea Party has dissolved and the nightmare<BR>of their ignorance dissipated.<BR><BR>As long as the T-Man's claim holds true, his friends and constituents (two<BR>terms that are synonymous with each other) in Latah County will always<BR>have his back.<BR><BR>And I, for one, don't believe for an instant the rumor that Tom Trail was<BR>born in
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