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Johnson s reply makes no reference to which specific article he is hereby replying to, I am inferring he refers to the 02/JAN/2012 Times-News editorial on the state of affairs of the Twin Falls Senior Center. And, after reading his reply, I was left to wonder... Right off the bat, in his first paragraph, Mr. Johnson clearly offers, out of his volition, an opportunity for a member of the Times-News Editorial Board to join the Twin Falls Senior Center Board of Directors in light of the timing being right because of the Senior Center s coming election on 07/FEB/2012. From this point on, Mr. Johnson s reply goes on and on as to how much the Times-News Member sitting on the Senior Center Board will learn, with the unmistakable undertone that the Times-News, by the end of its run on the Senior Center Board, will repent for their harsh 02/JAN/2012 words. However, in my opinion, Mr. Johnson s reply created an even greater conundrum for Twin Falls Senior Center: how can he however implicit guarantee that the results of 07/FEB/2012 Senior Center election will yield a seat for a board member of the Times-News editorial staff? And whereas one might attempt to skew the position that the extended invitation merely implies that a Times-News Editorial Board member will only be sitting in the meetings and reporting to the community, the first line of his second paragraph clearly states Once you begin working as a board member, you will learn Is this the Twin Falls version of the Rod R. Blagojevich affair? All in all, I thought Mr. Johnson s reply to be a very arrogant and defiant, which does not, in my opinion, promote yet again - a very positive image to an institution which has both repeatedly and publicly acknowledged to have lost its own way and not know how its own financials are being managed in the midst of public outcries for help and public internal personnel vs. governing board struggles. Mrcio Padilha