Army Sergeant Responds To Spencer

At the Coeur d’Alene Press web site, Army Sgt. Major Gregory A. Proft responds from Iraq to Larry Spencer’s challenge to his right to cast a ballot in the Coeur d’Alene City Council elections. (You can read the entire response, at 10:50 a.m., under a recent letter that Spencer sent to the Coeur d’Alene Press here .) The key sentences are these: “It sounds like since Larry doesn’t like the results of the election, my right to cast a ballot should be cast aside, thrown out because I am not physically present in the state in which I vote. I bet Larry would not grant me a pass on the property taxes I paid on my house while I was fighting in Baquobah, Ramadi and Baghdad while he was doing whatever it is he does in Spirit Lake. Instead of challenging the legitimacy of my ballot, Larry ought to be offering to buy me a beer when I return for going out of my way to participate in the democratic process.”

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