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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Tom,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>I am sorry to be writing to you with a complaint but I must. I know that you and the other county commissioners are not responsible for the display in the lobby of the courthouse. Nonetheless, the fact that that display as been up for at least two days without (apparently) concern on your part is making my head explode. (Maybe you are out of town and don’t know about this – if so, I apologize to you) I hate to use the expression WTF, but really Tom, WTF. What would national news outlets think, given Idaho’s connection with the Aryan Nations, Doug Wilson’s <i>Southern Slavery as It Was</i>, and local freaky Tea Party morons who think State’s Rights trump all? If the Confederacy is going to celebrated front and center in the Courthouse it is my expectation that the following images (make sure the county contacts the appropriate parties for permission to show what the Confederacy really represented. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t202" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="202" path="m,l,21600r21600,l21600,xe">
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