<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Sunil -</div><div><br></div><div>The Tea Party has forced the Republican Party so far to the right that the Republican Party's very own mentor, Ronald Wilson Reagan (6-6-6, hmmm), would (at best) be considered moderate, maybe even socialist (considering how often he raised the debt ceiling).</div><div><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom "Tree-Hugging, Card-Carrying, Bleeding-Heart Liberal"Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"If not us, who?</div><div>If not now, when?"</div><div><br></div><div>- Unknown</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Mar 12, 2012, at 7:04, Sunil Ramalingam <<a href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">sunilramalingam@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">
Dan,<br><br>Do you think the state Democratic leadership is driving out its moderates? Isn't that what the state Republican leadership is doing here in our legislature?<br><br>Sunil<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: <a href="mailto:areaman@moscow.com"><a href="mailto:areaman@moscow.com">areaman@moscow.com</a></a><br>To: <a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com"><a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a></a><br>Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:01:21 -0700<br>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Legislative Newsletter IX March 5-9, 2012<br><br>
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</style><div class="ecxWordSection1"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Donovan says:</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">“It looks like the Republicans are accomplishing their goals. Maybe in 2016 they can disenfranchise more people and get it down to about 1,000 by only allowing people that get a VIP invitation and donate $10000 to the Party to be able to attend. You cannot just be letting any old person in Idaho show up at a caucus and vote for the Republican Party Primary Candidates now can you? </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">This is the way Idaho Republicans Party leaders think. And it is no wonder so many of the few remaining good people in the Idaho Legislature are moving on by not running again.”</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Didn’t the democrats have a presidential caucus in Idaho in 2008? Why yes, they did: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_Democratic_caucuses%2c_2008" target="_blank"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_Democratic_caucuses,_2008">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_Democratic_caucuses,_2008</a></a></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">You didn’t have to be a registered democrat at the time of the caucus, but “</span>Caucus attendees were required to sign a pledge that they planned on voting Democratic in the county in which they were caucusing.”</p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Not a fan of hypocrisy, from either side,</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">DC</span><span style="color:black"></span></p></div><br>=======================================================
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