[Vision2020] Governor Otter's Screwed Up Priorities

[Paul Rumelhart]

I don't really care one way or the other if this "rivalry" continues.  I  
certainly can't see myself looking down on total strangers based on whether or 
not they are affiliated with a school that has a sports team I don't like.  
Maybe when I was in the third grade I could work up that sort of moral outrage 
about it, but I've since laid down that mantle and have moved on with my life.  
I think I'm better off for it.

Paul




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From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
To: Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Cc: Kathy Judson <ponysnpups at gmail.com>
Sent: Wed, July 28, 2010 12:29:27 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] Governor Otter's Screwed Up Priorities

  
Courtesy of the Idaho Statesman at:
 
http://tinyurl.com/Otter-Idaho-BSU
 
 
Gov. Otter to explore options for saving Boise State-Idaho football game
Brian Murphy and Dan Popkey - Idaho Statesman
 
One day after Boise State University president Bob Kustra blasted Idaho fans and 
declared the annual Broncos-Vandals rivalry game all but dead, Idaho Gov. Butch 
Otter said he would explore options for keeping the game going.
 
“I think it’s healthy, I think it’s a good thing for us to have and I think it’s 
a great tradition that we’ve had,” Otter said before the Boise Metro Chamber 
luncheon where he was seated at the head table with Kustra. “… I hope we can do 
everything we can do to make it continue.”
 
Boise State is leaving the Western Athletic Conference for the Mountain West 
Conference on July 1, 2011. Idaho is a member of the WAC.
 
“I don’t know what my options are, what my authorities are,” said Otter, who 
played spring football at then-Boise Junior College in 1964 but never played in 
a game. “Personally, I’m all for it. Administratively, I don’t know what my 
authorities are.”
 
Otter said he would have his attorney, David Hensley, explore his options.
 
Kustra told the Idaho Statesman’s editorial board that he refuses to travel to 
Moscow for games because “it’s a culture that is nasty, inebriated and civilly 
doesn’t give our fans the respect that any fan should expect when visiting an 
away game.” Boise State coach Chris Petersen said Monday that he does not want 
to visit Moscow for games.
 
“Why should we?” he said. “I don’t think our fans even like to go up there.”
 
Kustra continued: “I frankly don’t care whether we ever play ’em again as long 
as it goes.”
 
Idaho coach Robb Akey suggested Monday that the governor may have to get 
involved to save the rivalry.
 
“It’s a good thing for our state. It’s a good thing for both schools,” Akey told 
reporters at the WAC football preview in Salt Lake City. “I’m a proponent of 
keeping that thing going. It’s going to come down to the two universities and 
maybe the governor saying, ‘Hey, this is an important game that needs to be 
played and needs to be played home and home or not at all.' ”
 
Otter said he wants the rivalry to continue.
 
“I want them to do it for the right reason. I really think they’ve always done 
it for the right reason in the past because they’ve enjoyed the spirit, they’ve 
enjoyed the energy, the enthusiasm that builds for it,” Otter said.
 
 
Hey, I’m as much a Vandal “fan”atic as the next guy (even more so) and I, too, 
would like to keep this rivalry alive.
 
But . . .
 
Where does Governor Otter stand on more important issues, such as THE HIGHWAY 
12/EXXON-MOBIL ISSUE and THE UPPER LOCHSA LAND EXCHANGE?
 
Or aren’t those issues worth his time?
 
Seeya at the games AND the Highway 12/Upper Lochsa Land Exchange discussions, 
V-peeps.
 
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change and 
the Realist adjusts his sails." 

 
- Unknown 
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