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"It's not that we don't like them (Moscow residents)".....Whew. I admit that I have to fight the feeling of being an urbane, big city sophisticate when I live in such a bustling, intense urban setting as Moscow. When your city has two McDonalds, a couple of Starbucks and a bank at the heart of downtown that has an escalator, it can be a struggle to stay humble.<br><br><div>> From: v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm<br>> To: Vision2020@moscow.com<br>> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:28:32 -0700<br>> Subject: [Vision2020] Certainly No Thinking Person is Surprised . . .<br>> <br>> . . . that Moscow rejects the theocracy inherent from the "views" of people<br>> like Paula Bauer (a la Gresham Bouma & his pastor Lloyd Knerr). The genuine<br>> rub, however, is that the outlying areas are no more interested in the<br>> peculiar theocracy Bauer & Bouma crave than the city of Moscow is, something<br>> the blogger unfortunately missed in a big way.<br>> <br>> Frankly, I'm disappointed there's not been discussion on the Viz about the<br>> reapportionment . . . <br>> <br>> <br>> Saundra Lund<br>> Moscow, ID<br>> <br>> The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do<br>> nothing.<br>> ~ Edmund Burke<br>> <br>> ___<br>> http://lmtribune.com/blogs/political_theater/article_2a7f6630-9def-11e0-a494<br>> -001a4bcf6878.html<br>> <br>> Moscow not feeling the love<br>> <br>> by Bill Spence | 0 comments <br>> <br>> There was a distinct anti-Moscow flavor to the Idaho Commission on<br>> Reapportionment meeting in Moscow this afternoon.<br>> <br>> A number of rural residents, including several Republican Party officials,<br>> urged the commission to split the rural portion of Latah County away from<br>> Moscow and pair it with Benewah and Shoshone counties to the north.<br>> <br>> "There's a widespread sense of disenfranchisement in the outlying areas ...<br>> a strong sense that it's futile to fight against Moscow," said Paula Bauer,<br>> the Republican precinct chair for Viola and the first person to address the<br>> commission during its public listening session at the University of Idaho<br>> today.<br>> <br>> Bauer said rural Latah County has more in common Benewah and Shoshone<br>> counties, whereas Moscow is more similar to Lewiston. When it redraws<br>> legislative district boundaries to reflect the 2010 census populations, she<br>> urged the commission to put two cities together in a single district, while<br>> pairing the rural communities in a second district.<br>> <br>> "It's not that we don't like them (Moscow residents)," she said. "It's<br>> recognizing that our values, our interests and our needs are different."<br>> <br>> Pam Kaynor, chair of the Benewah County Republican Central Committee, said<br>> her county commissioners have no interest in being put in the same district<br>> as Moscow.<br>> <br>> "The only part of Latah County we feel linked to is northern (rural) Latah,"<br>> she said. "If not that, we don't want it."<br>> <br>> Latah County is a standalone legislative district right now, but that will<br>> have to change because it's population isn't great enough. Either it gets<br>> split between two or more districts, or it gets paired with other areas.<br>> <br>> Latah County Commissioner Tom Stroschein encouraged the commission to keep<br>> it whole. The primary options would be to pair it with Benewah County to the<br>> north or with Clearwater County to the east. He didn't indicate which he<br>> would prefer, but said he'd "hate to see local government have to work with<br>> legislators who didn't live in the county and didn't understand our county<br>> roots."<br>> <br>> Commissioner Evan Frasure of Pocatello said the Latah, Nez Perce, Clearwater<br>> County region "is one of the more difficult areas in the state to lump<br>> together in a logical way. I've redrawn this area 15 times and not come up<br>> with anything."<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></div> </div></body>
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