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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I meant Here’s something …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Shirley Ringo<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 02, 2014 12:21 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Tom Hansen'; 'Paul Rumelhart'<br><b>Cc:</b> 'Moscow Vision 2020'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Ri$ch & Crapo<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It’s interesting to go back in US history to get a sense of values expressed at a given time. For the sake of discussion, he’s something form FDR:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN>In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that <b>no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.</b> By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; <b>and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN>S</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a> [<a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tom Hansen<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 02, 2014 11:37 AM<br><b>To:</b> Paul Rumelhart<br><b>Cc:</b> Moscow Vision 2020<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Ri$ch & Crapo<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Applying Mr. Rumelhart's "logic", Seattle (with its $15/hour minimum wage) should degenerate to a ghost town within a year, huh?<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/"><span style='color:black'>http://www.MoscowCares.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Moscow, Idaho<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>"There's room at the top they are telling you still.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If you want to be like the folks on the hill."<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>- John Lennon<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On May 2, 2014, at 10:21 AM, Paul Rumelhart <<a href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">godshatter@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>You mean, maybe we should force employers not to have wage caps? I'm surprised they didn't start lowering the max wage cap as the minimum wage rose, since that would have at least helped to keep their payroll expenses down. These things have costs, you know. Believe it or not, but businesses with lots of turnover (the person in question being an exception) can't always suck up a minimum wage increase over most of their workforce without having to cut something somewhere else.<br><br>Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><hr size=1 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> Representative Shirley Ringo <<a href="mailto:sringo@house.idaho.gov">sringo@house.idaho.gov</a>><br><b>To:</b> Paul Rumelhart <<a href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">godshatter@yahoo.com</a>>; Tom Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>>; Moscow Vision 2020 <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 2, 2014 10:10 AM<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Vision2020] Ri$ch & Crapo</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div id=yiv8936430628><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Paul:</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>It seems to me you’re having a very hard time identifying what is really wrong with this picture.</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Shirley</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id=yiv8936430628yqt61190><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a> [<a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul Rumelhart<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 02, 2014 9:19 AM<br><b>To:</b> Tom Hansen; Moscow Vision 2020<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vision2020] Ri$ch & Crapo</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>About the minimum wage:<br><br>I know someone who works in Washington that spent years moving up the chain thanks to her hard work until she hit the wage cap that her employer had instituted. Every time the minimum wage increased, the wage cap stayed the same. Now there is very little difference between what she makes and what a wet-behind-the-ears kid off the street makes. So while you are all congratulating yourselves on how nice it is for those kids with no experience, you've essentially pissed on all the work she has done over the years.<br><br>Paul</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><hr size=1 width="100%" align=center></span></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> Tom Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank">thansen@moscow.com</a>><br><b>To:</b> Moscow Vision 2020 <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020@moscow.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 2, 2014 4:19 AM<br><b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] Ri$ch & Crapo</span><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id=yiv8936430628><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Courtesy of today's (May 2, 2014) Lewiston Tribune.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:25.5pt;background:white'><span class=yiv8936430628blox-headline><b><span style='font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Ri$ch & Crapo</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Marty Trillhaase</span></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>JEERS</span></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> ... to Idaho's Republican senators, Jim Risch and Mike Crapo. Wednesday, they helped scuttle raising the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Yet they represent one of the poorest states in the union. Last year, 7.1 percent of Idaho workers earned the minimum wage. That's the second largest proportion in the country. The only reason Idaho didn't retain its status as the No. 1 minimum-wage state is because Tennessee had an even worse year.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>These are not teenagers earning gas money. Of the people on the economy's bottom rung, 88 percent are at least 20 years old and 55 percent are working full time. One of every three is supporting a child.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>The Idaho Risch and Crapo represent now ranks next to last - second only to Mississippi - in per capita incomes.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Raising the minimum wage would put more than $172 million into the hands of struggling Idaho families. And it would make up for lost ground. Had the minimum wage kept pace with inflation, it would already be at $10.60 an hour.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>The last time Congress raised the minimum wage - from $5.15 to $7.25 - was 2007. Then, Crapo, joined by Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, voted yes.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Who are Risch and Crapo looking out for?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Not the little guy.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>JEERS</span></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> ... to former Idaho state Sen. Evan Frasure, R-Pocatello. He's playing both sides of the religion card.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Frasure is one of four Republicans seeking to succeed retiring Secretary of State Ben Ysursa.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Writing in the Idaho Statesman's online voter guide, Frasure notes he served a mission for the Mormon Church in New Zealand. Nothing unusual there. Frasure hopes to win big in heavily Mormon eastern Idaho while Chief Deputy Ada County Clerk Phil McGrane, former Sen. Mitch Toryanski, R-Boise, and former House Speaker Lawerence (Boss) Denney, R-Midvale, split the votes everywhere else.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>But that wasn't good enough for Frasure. He characterizes McGrane as "a good Catholic (who) goes to work for AmeriCorps for a year, then off to two colleges in Washington, earning a degree in philosophy at the University of Washington, hardly the path of a future Republican."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>If Frasure thinks it's OK to vote for him because he's Mormon and McGrane is not, presumably the reverse is true.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>JEERS</span></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> ... to Congressman Raul Labrador, R-Idaho. Wednesday, he stood alone among every member of Congress and blew off America's military veterans.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Let that sink in.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>The men and women who served this country, some of whom came home grievously wounded, can count on the support of people like Eric Cantor, R-Va., Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and Mike Simpson, R-Idaho. They can even count on every one of Labrador's Tea Party allies such as Justin Amash, R-Mich., Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., Steve King, R-Iowa, and Louie Gohmert, R-Texas.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>All of them recognized the need to boost spending on veterans services by $1.5 billion to reduce what Simpson called "the unacceptable backlog of disability claims."<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Labrador alone sees things differently.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>When he gets around to explaining why, we'll let you know.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>JEERS</span></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> ... to former University of Idaho football coach Robb Akey.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Before he was bounced in 2012, Akey had amassed a 17-33 record - including winning only three games during his final two years.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Meanwhile, his players weren't exactly hitting the books. The NCAA requires teams to meet an average Academic Progress Rate of 930 during four years. In 2010, the UI's APR slipped to 921, then to 881 the next year and 838 in 2012. That put the average at 903.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Last week, the NCAA imposed sanctions: No postseason play and the loss of four hours of practice each week in 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Some teams lose games. Some get knocked for flunking classes. Under Akey, the UI managed to do both.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>CHEERS</span></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> ... to Sandy Patano of Coeur d'Alene. Once a top aide to Sen. Craig with serious political bona fides of her own, Patano is in the thick of a battle to cleanse the Panhandle of its wingnut legislative brigade.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Along with establishment Republicans such as former state Rep. Dean Haagenson, R-Coeur d'Alene, and former Intermountain Forest Industry Association head Jim Riley, Patano has founded a political action committee to support "reasonable" Republicans.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Two years ago, they helped pragmatic incumbents such as Sen. Shawn Keough, R-Sandpoint, survive Tea Party challenges in the state's first closed GOP primary election.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Now they're trying to ditch five Tea Party incumbents, including Sen. Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d'Alene, and Reps. Shannon McMillan, R-Silverton, and Vito Barbieri, R-Dalton Gardens.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>If they succeed, you may have heard the last of Barbieri's flirtation with nullification and Nonini's unconstitutional ploy to siphon off your tax dollars from public schools toward private and religious academies.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Godspeed.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>JEERS</span></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> ... to Clarkston City Councilor Terry Beadles. If he thinks the law will allow Clarkston to avoid implementing Washington's legalized marijuana initiative, let him find the legal authority to do so.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>But Beadles' comments Monday suggest he's resorting to subterfuge under the guise of extending the city's six-month moratorium.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>A moratorium to give city officials time needed to implement the system of producing, processing and selling marijuana is one thing.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Renewing it simply because, as Beadles said, councilors don't want to "implement a drug into society" is something else.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;outline:0px;float:none'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Right or wrong, Washington voters already made that call.- M.T.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Seeya 'round town, 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