<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Thank you Stephanie. I appreciate your explanation of the law. My observation is one that can reasonably lead me to conclude that there is some larger organization behind the campaign signs going up so quickly in such predictable and party centric fashion. It may well be legal, but it does violate the spirit of non-partisan elections. </span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <div class="hr" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" contenteditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <font face="Arial" size="2">
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fro<var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var>m:</span></b> Stephanie Kalasz <skalasz@ci.moscow.id.us><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "rhayes@frontier.com" <rhayes@frontier.com>; "vision2020@moscow.com" <vision2020@moscow.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, September 23, 2013 3:46 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [Vision2020] fishy?<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv0103244005">
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<div class="yiv0103244005MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">State law requires that council candidates run for office non-partisan:</span></div>
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<div class="yiv0103244005MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;"><span style="line-height: 120%; font-size: 7.5pt;">CHAPTER 4
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<div class="yiv0103244005MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;"><span style="line-height: 120%; font-size: 7.5pt;">MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS</span></div>
<div class="yiv0103244005MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;"><span style="line-height: 120%; font-size: 7.5pt;">50-406. Method of nomination -- Clerk to furnish printed forms. Candidates for elective city offices shall be nominated by declaration.
The declaration shall contain the name and address of the person and the office and the term for which he is being nominated.
<span style="background: yellow;">There shall be no mention relating to party or principal of the nominee.</span> The completed declaration of candidacy shall be accompanied by: (1) a petition of candidacy signed by not less than five (5)
registered qualified electors; or (2) a nonrefundable filing fee of forty dollars ($40.00) which shall be deposited in the city treasury.
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<div class="yiv0103244005MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%;"><span style="line-height: 120%; font-size: 7.5pt;">It shall be the duty of the city clerk to furnish upon application a reasonable number of regular printed forms, as herein set forth,
to any person or persons applying therefor. The forms shall be of uniform size as determined by the clerk.
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<div class="yiv0103244005MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;">However, that does not mean that the candidate cannot be affiliated with a political party (I know of both Republican and Democrat council members who have
served) and there is nothing that I am aware of to prevent candidates from getting support from people who may share similar views and are in the same political party.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv0103244005MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Pristina; font-size: 10pt;">Stephanie Kalasz, CMC</span></b><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"></span></div>
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<div class="yiv0103244005MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Pristina; font-size: 10pt;">206 E. 3rd Street</span></b><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"></span></div>
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<div class="yiv0103244005MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Pristina; font-size: 10pt;">(208) 883-7015</span></b><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 11pt;"></span></div>
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<div class="yiv0103244005MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>rhayes@frontier.com<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 23, 2013 3:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] fishy?</span></div>
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<div class="yiv0103244005MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">If the mayor and city council's positions are supposed to be non-partisan, why does every, and I do mean every, Republican household in my neighborhood
already have Lambert and Weber signs out on their lawns? It must be magic, or...?</span></div>
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<div class="yiv0103244005MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Roger Hayes/Moscow</span></div>
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