<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv=content-type>
<META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 9.00.8112.16484">
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Wahoo!!! there is intelligent life in Idaho beyond
Moscow!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Debi R-S</FONT></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=thansen@moscow.com href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 22, 2013 5:13
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] GOP activists’ grip
broken on CdA board</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Courtesy of today's (May 22, 2013)
Spokesman-Review.</DIV>
<DIV style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><BR></DIV>
<DIV
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">-------------------------------------------</DIV>
<DIV style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><BR></DIV>
<DIV>
<P
style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 21px; OUTLINE-STYLE: none; OUTLINE-COLOR: invert; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; OVERFLOW: visible !important; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">
<H1
style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.2; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; OUTLINE-STYLE: none; OUTLINE-COLOR: invert; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; CLEAR: both; FONT-SIZE: 28px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; OVERFLOW: visible !important; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969)">GOP
activists’ grip broken on CdA board</H1>
<H5
style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 1; MARGIN: 0px 0px 12px; OUTLINE-STYLE: none; OUTLINE-COLOR: invert; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68); CLEAR: both; FONT-SIZE: 16px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; OVERFLOW: visible !important; BORDER-TOP: 0px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969)"
class=subhead>CdA school board sees power shift; group’s candidates also lose
hospital board bids</H5>
<P></P>
<P
style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 21px; OUTLINE-STYLE: none; OUTLINE-COLOR: invert; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; OVERFLOW: visible !important; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Candidates backed by a group of
Republican activists were defeated Tuesday night in unusually lively races for
the nonpartisan Coeur d’Alene School Board and Kootenai Hospital
District board.</SPAN></P>
<P
style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 21px; OUTLINE-STYLE: none; OUTLINE-COLOR: invert; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; OVERFLOW: visible !important; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">In a shakeup on the school board,
challengers knocked off incumbents Brent Regan and Ann Seddon, both of whom
were backed by the conservative Kootenai County
Reagan Republicans.</SPAN></P>
<P
style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 21px; OUTLINE-STYLE: none; OUTLINE-COLOR: invert; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; OVERFLOW: visible !important; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Christa Hazel and Dave Eubanks will
join the five-member board along with Tom Hearn, who won an open seat. All
three were backed by Balance North Idaho, a political action committee whose
slogan is “qualifications over ideology,” and their wins will swing control of
the board away from a solidly conservative majority that took hold over the
past year.</SPAN></P>
<P
style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 21px; OUTLINE-STYLE: none; OUTLINE-COLOR: invert; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; OVERFLOW: visible !important; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Reagan Republican-endorsed candidates
also lost bids to join the Kootenai Hospital District board, one of the more
inconspicuous posts on the public service landscape. Two of their candidates,
however, won seats on the Post Falls School Board.</SPAN></P>
<P
style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 21px; OUTLINE-STYLE: none; OUTLINE-COLOR: invert; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; OVERFLOW: visible !important; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">These nonpartisan races usually are
low-profile affairs that bring out a smattering of voters. In Tuesday’s
election, almost 9,000 voters cast ballots, up from fewer than 6,800 two
years ago.</SPAN></P>
<P
style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 21px; OUTLINE-STYLE: none; OUTLINE-COLOR: invert; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; OVERFLOW: visible !important; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">“I’m just feeling ecstatic because I
think the voters in Coeur d’Alene have been decisive in saying it’s more than
party label that’s required. You need to have qualifications and your motives
need to be transparent,” said Hazel, who defeated Regan with 63 percent of
the vote.</SPAN></P>
<P
style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 21px; OUTLINE-STYLE: none; OUTLINE-COLOR: invert; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; OVERFLOW: visible !important; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Regan, a businessman and inventor
appointed to the board last December, offered congratulations for his
opponent. “She ran a good race and won the day,” he said.</SPAN></P>
<P
style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 21px; OUTLINE-STYLE: none; OUTLINE-COLOR: invert; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; OVERFLOW: visible !important; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">“I get my life back,” Regan added. “I
said going into this it was a win-win for me: that if I won the election, we’d
have to do the heavy work of trying to fix what’s wrong in the district, and
if I didn’t win the race, then I’d get my life back, which is a fairly
considerable commitment of time.”</SPAN></P>
<P
style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 21px; OUTLINE-STYLE: none; OUTLINE-COLOR: invert; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; OVERFLOW: visible !important; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">Dr. Neil Nemec and Liese Razzeto won
seats on the hospital board, defeating Donna Montgomery, who was endorsed by
Reagan Republicans, and Jim Pierce, who was backed both by that group and the
Balance PAC.</SPAN></P>
<P
style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 21px; OUTLINE-STYLE: none; OUTLINE-COLOR: invert; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; OVERFLOW: visible !important; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><SPAN
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">In Post Falls, Glorie Ward and Carol
Goodman, both backed by the Reagan Republicans, won seats on the school board.
They beat Julie Hunt and Dave Paul, who were endorsed by Balance
North Idaho.</SPAN></P></DIV>
<DIV
style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">-------------------------------------------<BR><BR>
<DIV>Seeya at the Wingding, Moscow, because . . .</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</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>"<SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: medium; -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969)">There's
room at the top they are telling you still</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: medium; -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969)"> </SPAN></DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: medium; -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875)">But
first you must learn how to smile as you kill </SPAN><BR
style="FONT-SIZE: medium; -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875)"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: medium; -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875)">If
you want to be like the folks on the hill."</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969)"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969)">-
John Lennon<BR></SPAN></FONT>
<DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV>
<P>
<HR>
<P></P>=======================================================<BR> List
services made available by First Step Internet,<BR> serving the
communities of the Palouse since
1994.<BR>
http://www.fsr.net<BR>
mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>=======================================================</BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>