<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of the Letters section of today's (November 1, 2012) Moscow-Pullman Daily News with a special note of thanks to Sue Hovey.</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=Ringo%20will%20serve%20all%20constituents%20-%20Moscow-Pullman%20Daily%20News%3A%20Opinion%3A%20sue%20and%20norman%20hovey%2C%20letter%20to%20the%20editor%2C&referrer=http%3A//dnews.com/opinion/article_3d43e160-88fc-5f04-bb62-dd3ff6496ecd.html&domain=dnews.com&uri=/opinion/article_3d43e160-88fc-5f04-bb62-dd3ff6496ecd.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);">Ringo will serve all constituents</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);">Shirley Ringo has our vote. She supports funding to ensure the Idaho constitutional mandate of a free and equitable public school system. Her opponent supports tax credits for home school parents. Ringo opposes the Luna laws, her opponent supports them. She believes state law should not usurp federal law, her opponent would have state law nullify federal law. She supports measures that encourage residents to vote, her opponent supports the closed primary and would have U.S. Senators be chosen by the Legislature, not by eligible voters.</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);">Ringo supports the right of every woman to make her own health care decisions, but in the issue of abortion, her opponent opposes it. Shirley supports Social Security and would work to make it stronger, her opponent would privatize Social Security.</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);">Coincidentally, every position listed above applies not only to Ken De Vries but to every Republican candidate for the Idaho Legislature and every Latah County Republican candidate. Every one of them takes the same stand. Every one, no exceptions.</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);">Shirley supports Medicaid, Medicare and other health care programs, her opponent would see them reduced or eliminated altogether. For us, that is the critical distinction. This spring, our daughter, who has a lifelong disability, lost state support that allowed her to work at Rosauers. Many of you know her - she has been there for almost two decades. The Legislature cut funding and refused Medicaid that would have allowed her and other Idaho residents to continue to work and live independently.</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);">Ringo was our ombudsman. Because of her efforts our daughter continues in her job. We are grateful to Idaho taxpayers for their support. We are grateful to Ringo for her assistance.</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);">We urge you to re-elect Shirley Ringo. Ours is only one example of her willingness to serve all her constituents.</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);">Sue and Norman Hovey</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><img src="cid:86782E27-D787-4C8E-BB92-C2113AE9FEC1" alt="image.jpeg" id="86782E27-D787-4C8E-BB92-C2113AE9FEC1" width="330" height="222"><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>