<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Team Red gets to say: VOTE, open now or stay closed?<br>Result: 55 votes to open 45 to stay closed,</font></i></blockquote><div><br></div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>Just yesterday the following happened:  <br>Team Blue got to say: VOTE, open now or stay closed?<br>Result: 45 votes to open 55 to stay closed<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span><font face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>blue</i></font><font face="georgia, serif"><i> team is stuck with Stay Closed, Don’t Open Until You Fix Or Change Yakkity Yak and Bla Bla.</i></font></span></span></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>If you examine that Yakkity Yak and Bla Bla<span class="gmail_default" style=""> a little more closely you will find that it involves 16 million Americans citizens losing their health insurance, and in many cases that is equivalent to sentencing them to death. </span></b></font><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-460059477708602989"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-460059477708602989WordSection1"><div><div><p class="m_-460059477708602989gmail-whitespace-normal"><span class="m_-460059477708602989gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>We would disagree but could still be friends</font></i></span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>I certainly agree with that.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span> </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4"><b style=""><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">John K Clark</font></span><br></b></font></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-460059477708602989"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-460059477708602989WordSection1"><div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>