<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:18pt"><div><span>I think the Republican Party keeps shrinking because most of the people that believe what do were born before 1938.</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Donovan Arnold</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> keely emerinemix <kjajmix1@msn.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com>; vision2020@moscow.com <br> <b><span
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Remember this the next time one of the GOP candidates or pundits deride the "dangerous class warfare" of the Occupy protestors.<br><br>How I, as an off-and-on NAACP member, would love to be there when Newt Gingrich presumes to lecture the African-American community on his vast knowledge of the economic struggles of Black families. I'm always just thrilled to hear the perspectives of privileged-bloated white men on racial justice, sexual integrity, and class divisions. It's nearly as enlightening as having a bank robber tutor me on the advantages of one checking account package over another. Or of my dog trying to communicate to me the virtues of a localvore, vegan diet. <br><br>That, combined with Santorum's "blacks and welfare" comment Tuesday, illustrates that the GOP is comfortable with the conservative status quo that clings to the tired, disproved notion that "welfare" is "a Black people thing," and corporate favors and tax
cuts are quite appropriately the providence, if not Providential, of wealthy whites. The Republican Party is falling apart because of its insistence on rewarding piety, not virtue; privilege, not honest gain; stupidity, not scholarship; and judgmentalism, not judgment -- and the free fall risks bringing us all down with them. <br><br>The big question in November and beyond is, will we continue to let them?<br><br><font color="#8064a2"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><font face="Verdana">Keely<br><a href="http://www.keely-prevailingwinds.com" target="_blank">www.keely-prevailingwinds.com</a><br></font></font></font><br><br><div><div id="yiv692298112SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> From: thansen@moscow.com<br>> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 13:54:02 -0800<br>> To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>> Subject: [Vision2020] Say What?<br>> <br>> “I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they
should demand paychecks instead of food stamps."<br>> <br>> - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich while campaigning in New Hampshire (January 5, 2012)<br>> <br>> http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/updates/3608<br>> <br>> ---------------<br>> <br>> Seeya later, Moscow.<br>> <br>> Tom Hansen<br>> Spokane, Washington<br>> <br>> "If not us, who?<br>> If not now, when?"<br>> <br>> - Unknown<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></div>
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