<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto">Last night <SPAN id=misspell-0 class=mark>Latah</SPAN> County and 5<SPAN id=misspell-1 class=mark>th</SPAN> District voters killed off the last of the <SPAN id=misspell-2 class=mark>RINOs</SPAN> in the area. Tragically, Tom Trail lost his bid for the Republican nomination for County Commissioner. Barrett Schroeder was taken to slaughter as well being defeated by an almost 2 to 1 margin by his own <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-3><SPAN>political</SPAN></SPAN> party. Finally, to add insult to injury, Gary Schroeder was prevented from even taking his <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-4><SPAN>precinct</SPAN></SPAN> chair seat by his own Republican neighbors.</div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">Only goes to show that you should run with the party you believe, vote for the party you believe in. And support the party you believe in. Voting in a <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-5>primary that</SPAN> is not your party angers and energizes the party more than it helps your cause. Running on a platform contrary to the party you are running with only results in the <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-6><SPAN>energizing</SPAN></SPAN> of voters to vote against that candidate.</div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">Keep this in mind as well, most people are not registered to vote, and only 25% of registered voters in <SPAN id=misspell-7 class=mark>Latah</SPAN> even voted last night. And 51% of them voted in the Republican Primary. 17% voted in the Democratic Primary, and about 30% voted only on the non-partisan ballot. Less than 1250 votes were needed by any candidate to win any nomination. With about 35,000-40,000 people in the 5TH District, that is less than 4% of people deciding who gets to even be on the ballot in November--kind of like China and Iran. </div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">There are Republican state leaders that want to move the Republican nomination process to just Republican leaders in each district. If that happened, than most elections would be decided by about 250 people in a county like <SPAN id=misspell-8 class=mark>Latah</SPAN>. </div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">Oh, and congratulations to all the candidates for running--and those that won their nomination. </div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">Remember, if you don't want anything to change, keep voting for the same people to keep doing nothing different. </div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">Donovan J. Arnold</div></div></body></html>