<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of today's (October 13, 2012) Moscow-Pullman Daily News with a vote of appreciation to Gary Shroeder.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">------------------------------------</div><div><iframe src="http://stats-newyork1.bloxcms.com/dnews.com/?title=They%27re%20not%20true%20Republicans%20-%20Moscow-Pullman%20Daily%20News%3A%20Opinion%3A%20gary%20schroeder%2C%20letter%20to%20the%20editor%2C&referrer=http%3A//dnews.com/opinion/article_8652cbe0-1ce1-54d6-802c-3b20e1631d5e.html&domain=dnews.com&uri=/opinion/article_8652cbe0-1ce1-54d6-802c-3b20e1631d5e.html%3Fmode%3Dprint" width="0" height="0" frameborder="0" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: absolute; width: 0px; height: 0px; "></iframe><h1 style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They're not true Republicans</span></font></h1><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It is truly amazing that while our young people are fighting and dying overseas to give other countries the right to vote, political candidates at home want to take away our right to elect our own senators.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ken DeVries and Gresham Bouma have signed a pledge to repeal the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and steal your right to elect your two U.S. senators.</span></p><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left; "><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We know from history the system they support leads to corruption and contempt for ordinary voters as Senate seats were simply sold to the highest bidder. In fact, they could sell Idaho's Senate seats to people who don't even live here.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left; "><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">DeVries and Bouma have also pledged to support the concept of "nullification" where states simply ignore federal laws they don't like. The Idaho Attorney General's office says this is unconstitutional, violates the oath of office and compares it to secession. Some supporters of this concept openly call themselves "confederates."</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left; "><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">To me, as a citizen, veteran and Republican, any candidate who pledges to take away my right to vote for my U.S. Senators and violate the U.S. Constitution and their oath of office for a discredited "confederacy" theory, is unacceptable.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left; "><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Their pledge also states this is "the standard by which my performance as a candidate and as an officeholder should be evaluated." Therefore, I can't support either one.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left; "><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They call themselves Republicans, but this is not the Republican Party I know, the party of Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan and Doc Lucas. Good leaders should build our country up, not tear it down.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left; "><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These far right candidates are Republicans in name only (RINOs) who owe their allegiance to the third-party fringe who have taken over our local party in the guise of the "tea party," not the citizens of Idaho.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left; "><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; "><strong style="outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gary J. Schroeder</strong></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: left; "><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow</span></p></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya at the polls, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."</div><div><br></div><div>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div></body></html>