MY TURN: Service does NOT = freedom
You know fall is in the air in North Idaho when you step outside early in the morning and feel the “chill” from the night before. You know your neighbor is onto a new multi-level marketing scheme when he calls and says, “I have something really big to share with you.” And you can tell the general election season is right around the corner when the North Idaho Republicans start running propaganda pieces in the local paper and dusting off their website.
Christa Hazel, former Democrat and founding member of the NIR, in her recent op-ed entitled “The NIR Way …” starts by mentioning freedom. But she is not talking about freedom as we understand it. She is talking about community service. Billing themselves as "traditional" Republicans, they claim to be the REAL Republicans, and the REAL conservatives. Why? Because their members volunteer at a long list of local nonprofits and foundations. Somehow this makes them the torchbearers of "freedom" in North Idaho.
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