<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><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of today's (July 25, 2014) Lewiston Tribune.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">------------------------------------</div><div><h1 id="blox-asset-title" style="font-size: 30px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><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;">Sound sleeper</span></h1><p style="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);"><b>Marty Trillhaase</b></span></p><p style="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);"><b>JEERS</b> ... to Asotin County Sheriff Ken Bancroft. He's stepping down five months early to settle a score with the county commissioners, who deep-sixed his budget request.</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);">"I'm just not willing to put up with it anymore," Bancroft told the Tribune's Kerri Sandaine. "It's that simple."</span></p><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">No it's not. Who is Bancroft hurting?</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">Not the commissioners. They may have a headache or two finding a temporary replacement. But it's the people who elected Bancroft who have to live with the instability and disruption that will come from having two or even three sheriffs in the course of six months.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">Commissioners could pick one of the two men running to succeed Bancroft, Capt. Dan Hally, who has Bancroft's blessing, or John Hilderbrand. But that conveys incumbency - usually a political advantage - on one of the candidates heading into the fall election.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">Or they could contract with an outside entity. Commissioner Brian Shinn wants to work out a deal with Clarkston Police Chief Joel Hastings.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">People who seek elected office make a bargain with the voters: They'll complete the term, barring the usual exceptions. Health problems. Family crisis. Even an unforeseen but lucrative economic opportunity.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">Handing over the office like a piece of private property to a political ally? That's selfish and manipulative.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">"I'll probably get a good night's sleep for the first time in a long time," Bancroft told Sandaine.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">What about everyone else?</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);"><b>CHEERS</b> ... to Lewiston City Councilor Bob Blakey. Somebody needed to say it. Blakey did: Nez Perce County Commissioner Douglas Havens should leave the Urban Renewal Agency board.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">Nez Perce County doesn't like the URA updating its 2005 plan into eight projects in North Lewiston, the Nez Perce Terrace and downtown. The county sued - and lost twice in 2nd District Court Judge Michael Griffin's courtroom.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">Opposition is one thing.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">Chronic belligerence is something else.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">When the Lewiston City Council voted 5-2 for the plan last week, Havens challenged the legitimacy of at-large urban renewal board members Joe Hulett and JoAnn Cole-Hansen. He also reportedly threw a few darts at URA attorney Don Roberts.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">If Commissioners Bob Tippett and Doug Zenner want political pyrotechnics, they can keep Havens at the table.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">But Havens will be generating white noise.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);"><b>JEERS</b> ... to Idaho Gov. C.L. (Butch) Otter. In April, to much fanfare, Otter created a public records ombudsman and assigned Cally Younger to that job.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">Now Younger runs interference for Otter.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">Earlier this month, the governor filled two vacancies on the State Board of Education: Debbie Critchfield of Oakley to replace Ken Edmunds of Twin Falls and David Hill of Boise to replace Milford Terrell, also of Boise.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">Idaho Education News' Kevin Richert wanted to know who Otter sidestepped. So he asked Otter's office for the names and applications of the unsuccessful candidates.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">Here's what he got:</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><ul style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><li style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none outside none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">24 people sought Edmunds' seat. Otter's office delivered papers on nine applicants, including former House Democratic Leader Wendy Jaquet of Ketchum and former State Board member Laird Stone of Twin Falls.</span></li><li style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none outside none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">14 people applied for Terrell's post. Otter's office released six files and volunteered eight names. Among them were former state Rep. Milt Erhart, R-Boise, and former Idaho County Commissioner Jim Rehder of Cottonwood.</span></li></ul></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">So what happened to the 22 files that vanished?</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">"We have given you all of the applications we have," Younger told Richert. "Previous submissions were destroyed because they contain sensitive personal information."</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">Since these are political appointments, Otter may be within his rights. But a governor who wants credit for creating a public records ombudsman might look to the spirit of Idaho's public records law. These are your documents. You have a right to them.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">Evasion and shredded records carry the strong scent of chicanery.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);"><b>JEERS</b> ... to the Idaho Fish and Game Commission. The commission is opposing creating a Boulder-White Clouds National Monument.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">"Without state sovereignty, you won't have hunting, fishing and trapping in any meaningful way," said Commission Chairman Fred Trevey of Lewiston.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">How would he know without first consulting groups such as the Idaho Conservation League? Negotiations with monument supporters could lead toward an agreement to secure hunting and fishing rights within any national monument proclamation President Barack Obama issues.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">This looks like Fish and Game extending political cover to Otter, who not only opposes the monument, but the much more flexible Boulder-White Clouds bill Congressman Mike Simpson could have passed with the governor's support.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);"><b>CHEERS</b> ... to Boise Magistrate Judge Michael Oths. In presiding over the sentencing of the "Add the 4 Words" protesters this week, Oths imposed penalties upon those who violated the law by demonstrating inside the state Capitol earlier this year. Most got community service and small fines.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">But Oths also gave them something no one else in state government has been willing to share: his time and attention.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">Protesters told Oths their stories of enduring the discrimination Idaho law tolerates.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">They spoke of gay teenagers who yielded to despair and committed suicide.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">They reminded Oths and everyone else that they acted because state lawmakers won't. For eight years, legislators have refused to even consider amending Idaho's Human Rights law to protect individuals on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">"It does take some guts to stand up in civil disobedience and take the penalty, and I respect that,"</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="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);">Oths said. - M.T.</span></p></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">------------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div></div></div></body></html>