<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of today's (August 19, 2013) Lewiston Tribune.</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; "><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 10px 0px 0in; padding: 0px; background-image: none; "></p><h1 id="blox-asset-title" style="font-size: 30px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; "><span class="blox-headline entry-title" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); line-height: 38px; font-family: TiresiasInfofontRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Moscow lawmaker running for Congress</span></h1><p></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 10px 0px 0in; padding: 0px; background-image: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Idaho Rep. Shirley Ringo intends to run for the 1<sup style="outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; ">st</sup> Congressional District seat next year, challenging two-term incumbent Congressman Raul Labrador.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 10px 0px 0in; padding: 0px; background-image: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While not naïve about the difficulties Democratic candidates face when running for state or federal office in Idaho, Ringo said the current division within the Republican Party could provide an opening.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 10px 0px 0in; padding: 0px; background-image: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I think there are some moderate Republicans who are disgusted with the party's hard shift to the right,” she said. “That could open some doors, and I'm eager to test that and see how wide those doors can go.”</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 10px 0px 0in; padding: 0px; background-image: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ringo, 72, is midway through her seventh term in the Idaho House. She serves on the joint budget committee, as well as Judiciary, Rules and Administration and Transportation and Defense.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 10px 0px 0in; padding: 0px; background-image: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Prior to deciding to run for Congress, she had already decided not to seek an eighth term in the Idaho Legislature.</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 10px 0px 0in; padding: 0px; background-image: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 10px 0px 0in; padding: 0px; background-image: none; ">Crank it up for . . .</p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 10px 0px 0in; padding: 0px; background-image: none; "><img src="cid:4928DE05-ACA5-4DF2-A297-EA190206C2F6" alt="image.jpeg" id="4928DE05-ACA5-4DF2-A297-EA190206C2F6" width="509" height="344"></p><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; outline: 0px; float: none !important; margin: 10px 0px 0in; padding: 0px; background-image: none; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvMHTDH5nY0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvMHTDH5nY0</a> </span></p></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">--------------------------------------</span><br><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Seeya at the polls, Moscow, because . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div> </div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>