<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">By the way, Representative Troy's representative voted for the plate, Representative Gosling, against.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA</font></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 5:26 PM Debi Robinson-Smith <<a href="mailto:debismith@moscow.com">debismith@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Yep. That's Ideehoe....</p>
<p>Debi R-S<br>
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<div>On 3/19/2020 3:28 PM, Ron Force wrote:<br>
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<h1><span style="box-sizing:border-box">House, in 30-32 vote, kills
'Too Great for Hate' specialty license plate bill</span></h1>
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<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;line-height:24px">In
a stunning apparent last vote for the Idaho House
this year, the House has voted 30-32 on SB 1297,
Sen. Cherie Buckner-Webb's bill to create a
specialty license plate with the slogan "Too Great
for Hate" to benefit the Wassmuth Center's Idaho
Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial. There was no
debate against the bill before the vote; after it,
the House immediately went at ease for a
closed-door GOP caucus.</p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;line-height:24px">In
his opening debate in favor of the bill, Rep. John
McCrostie, D-Boise, said, "The Idaho Anne Frank
Human Rights Memorial sends a powerful message
across our state ... that Idaho is too great for
hate." It serves as a living classroom for Idaho
schoolchildren, he noted. "It is the only Anne
Frank memorial in the United States." Located next
to the Boise River and the public library, the
memorial is festooned with quotes from human
rights leaders around the world.</p>
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<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;line-height:24px">Everyone
can visit the memorial and see themselves in the
quotes, in their wisdom and humanity," McCrostie
said. "The funds ... from this license plate will
sustain and expand educational programs at the Idaho
Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial."</p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;line-height:24px">The
House earlier passed legislation to cut off new
specialty license plates, but that exempts all those
approved before July 1 that sell at least a certain
number each year. McCrostie said thousands of
members of the Wassmuth Center want to buy the
plates, and "this plate is anticipated to remain
solidly over the threshold."</p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;line-height:24px">Earlier
in the session, the House enthusiastically approved
a new "Choose Life" specialty license plate.</p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;line-height:24px">McCrostie
recalled that as a child growing up in Mountain
Home, he remembered passing a sign on the freeway
whenever his family drove to Boise that said, "Idaho
is too great for hate." "As a child, I didn't know
the history of the Aryan Nations, but I always
remembered that slogan," he said. "This is a
positive message that is symbolic, it is
inspirational, and it is aspirational."</p>
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<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;line-height:24px">"The
'Too Great for Hate' license plate stands as a
testament to the Idaho that we love, serve, and that
we've chosen for our homes."</p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;line-height:24px">Buckner-Webb
is the Idaho Legislature's only African-American
member. As the House was voting down her bill, the
Senate was paying tribute to her other retiring
senators for their service and accomplishments.</p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;line-height:24px">A
comparison of the House votes for the "Choose Life"
license plate, which passed on a 55-12 party-line
vote with three members absent, shows all but one of
those voting "no" on the "Too Great for Hate" plate
voted "yes" on the "Choose Life" plate -- so it's
not just about opposition to all specialty license
plates. The one member who was absent for the
"Choose Life" vote but voted "no" today was Rep.
Randy Armstrong.</p>
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<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;line-height:24px">After
the House GOP emerged from its closed-door caucus,
no further action was taken on SB 1297, such as a
motion for reconsideration -- which would have had
to come from someone who voted on the prevailing
side. Instead, the bill was returned to the Senate,
where Senate President Pro-Tem Brent Hill received
it and ordered it to be filed. </p>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Ron Force<br>
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