<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><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;"><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;"><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 (October 21, 2013) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.</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><h1 id="blox-asset-title" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 30px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 34px;"><span class="blox-headline entry-title" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); line-height: 38px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Letter writer got it wrong</span></h1><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In Lynn Ate's recent letter to the editor (<em style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;">Daily News</em>, Oct. 17) she said I voted with two other Moscow Council members to deny public testimony on the anti-discrimination ordinance that was passed last April. There was never a motion or vote to deny public testimony. In fact, council discussion on the anti-discrimination ordinance was still occurring when Mayor Chaney abruptly called for the vote on the ordinance, precluding public input.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ate is just as wrong about this as she was when, in a Human Rights Commission meeting several years ago, she accused the Moscow Police Department of racial profiling in front of myself and Chief Dan Weaver. A little light of day proves her wrong on both counts.</span></p><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The video of the council action on the anti-discrimination item may be found on the City website under Records Center, Minutes and Recordings for April 1, 2013 at 2:20.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><strong style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Walter Steed</strong></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"></p><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: start; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">President, Moscow City Council</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: start; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: start; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(Lynn Ate's letter of October 17th)</span></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;"><span class="blox-kicker" style="font-size: 20px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 28px; display: block; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 38px; font-size: 30px; font-weight: normal;">Steed failed the public</span></span></h1><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style blox-social-share-horizontal fb_like_location_top service-members " style="font-size: 10px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 5px 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; cursor: default;"><br></div><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: start; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow - whether you are a red or blue voter - remember and carefully consider the fact that Walter Steed failed the Moscow public on April 1 when he voted with two other council members to deny public testimony on an important issue before the council. He wouldn't even let the city supervisor present a statement on the topic.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: start; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow residents on both sides of the issue had waited for more than two hours to be heard and to have their testimony entered into the public record. But Steed and the two others didn't want to hear from us, didn't think our opinions were worth the time and acted as though we were all just a bother. We were all simply shooed away like a bunch of vexing flies.</span></p><p style="text-align: start; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Public testimony is an important part of the city council process in a democracy. And in a city where council members are elected at-large from the whole Moscow population, representatives should want to hear from a broad scope of the public in order to best serve the city. Steed neglected his fundamental duty to listen to the public he supposedly represents and acted as though he respected neither the Moscow public nor the public process.</span></p><p style="text-align: start; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Use your vote to elect someone to our City Council who will courteously and carefully listen and appreciate the time and effort engaged residents expend in presenting their ideas to their elected officials. My support goes to Rebecca Rod and Art Bettge, who I believe will listen to Moscow residents and represent their interests.</span></p><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: start; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><strong style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lynn Ate</strong></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: start; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 18px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow</span></p></div></div></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">---------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Watch and listen as Walter Steed and the Moscow City Council vote to quell the public voice after Mayor Chaney attempts to open the discussion to the public . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><img src="cid:5821057B-3A26-4E40-8380-D449D979FBA8" alt="image.jpeg" id="5821057B-3A26-4E40-8380-D449D979FBA8" width="527" height="372"></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRLreZu8yv8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRLreZu8yv8</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Please continue, Mr. Steed.<br><br><div>Seeya 'round town, 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-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); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -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); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -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); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -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); "><span style="font-size: medium; -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); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-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);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-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);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>