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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">If you are not a Republican, you should not be declaring under oath at the courthouse to be one. To me that is dishonest. No one primary election is worth that. Tom Trail has not lost an election, and there is little chance he will lose the primary or the general election. And even if he did, he could run as a independent and would still win in the three way race. And even if his <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-0><SPAN>opponent</SPAN></SPAN> still made it into office, there are two other county commissioners that would block most of his radical positions from being enacted. And he would be voted out of office in short order.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">I remember in the 1990s, while living in Hayden, a number of us Democrats thought to go vote for this nut job, Ron Rankin, for county commissioner so he would get the Republican nomination and be easily beaten in the general election. As it turned out, we did get him over the top for the Republican nomination. It made the Republicans mad when they found out Democrats were meddling in their primary, and they voted for him in record numbers in the general and we were stuck with a radical for eight years as county commissioner. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Your registering as a Republican when you are not is going to upset the Republicans that you are crashing their party and they may react in force by making <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-1><SPAN>doubly</SPAN></SPAN> sure to vote for the guy you don't want. I know I would do that if Republican were crashing a Democratic Primary to get the most conservative or most easily beatable candidate to get the nomination. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">We need more honesty in politics, not less. If you don't see that, well, we just disagree on that <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-2><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">principle</SPAN></SPAN> that honesty is the best policy. I <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-3><SPAN>responded</SPAN></SPAN> to your <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-4><SPAN>proclamation</SPAN></SPAN> <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-5><SPAN>publicly</SPAN></SPAN>, not privately, because you made it <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-6><SPAN>publicly</SPAN></SPAN>, as you are to me now. As far as my sense of humor goes, that is like beauty, subjective to each person, to some I am funny, to some I am an idiot, and others don't even realize when I am joking. That is just the way humor works I guess. I like humor to make people think, because thinking is in short supply and badly needed, obviously. </SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Monday, April 30, 2012 9:11 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Vision2020] A Consideration . . .<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>On Thursday (April 26<SPAN id=misspell-0 class=mark>th</SPAN>) Donovan Arnold "jokingly" suggested, at <SPAN id=misspell-1 class=mark>nobody's</SPAN> expense but my own:<BR><BR>"Mr. Hansen,<BR><BR>By registering as an Idaho Republican you are being
deceitful to others, dishonest in your true convictions as a person, and you greatly undermined your personal integrity; An important first step in becoming a true Idaho Republican."<BR><BR>The reason I registered to vote in this year's primary election was NOT to deceive!!! My intentions are honorable and community-oriented.<BR><BR>For those of you with short attention spans (Donovan Arnold and Vera White), my reason for registering as a Republican were strongly suggested in an earlier posting to Vision2020:<BR><BR>http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2012-April/082577.html<BR><BR>If your intent was to ridicule the Republican Party, a short off-list comment addressed to me would have been appropriate. That's what big boys and girls would do.<BR><BR>I, and my wife, have registered to vote in the May 15<SPAN id=misspell-2 class=mark>th</SPAN> primary election as Republicans to vote for Tom Trail. The alternative is just, plain
scary.<BR><BR>If you find humor in that, your minds are shallower than previously considered.<BR><BR>With that said . . .<BR><BR>My conscience rests.<BR><BR><SPAN id=misspell-3 class=mark>Seeya</SPAN> round town, Moscow.<BR><BR>Tom Hansen<BR>Moscow, Idaho<BR><BR>"If not us, who?<BR>If not now, when?"<BR><BR>- Unknown<BR><BR><BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>serving the communities of the <SPAN id=misspell-4 class=mark>Palouse</SPAN> since 1994.<BR> http://www.fsr.net<BR> <SPAN id=misspell-5 class=mark>mailto</SPAN>:<A href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</A><BR>=======================================================<BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV><VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></div></body></html>