Dan and Steve did it!  Dan beat George Sayler by 974 votes, and Steve unseated John Bruning by 1420.  Neither race was ever close.

Here’s what Dan told the Press: “”I would like to say the public finally got their vote on McEuen Field, and they spoke loud and clear… The council got a new direction.”

Steve said he will focus on a vote for McEuen, reducing the budget and reigning in LCDC, just as he promised in his campaign.

What are your thoughts and feelings this morning?

Is there relevance to the connection, in our local city council race, of a candidate’s support for the U.S. President?  I would say YES, and here’s why:  A few weeks ago, council candidate George Sayler said, at a public forum, that he thinks Obama has been “good for Idaho”.  This statement tells me that George is completely out of touch with the real world of our local economy.

The Obama administration policies, especially banking regulations,  have been terrible for small business and have contributed greatly to the closure of local enterprises, ultimately costing  jobs.  And in the midst of this severe economic downturn nationally, what has the Obama administration focused its time and effort on?…Not helping to create jobs by reducing spending and lowering taxes, which are proven methods to help business investment and jobs.  No, the President used his power, in the midst of a severe recession, to push a massive spending program called Obamacare, (pass it before you read it) which has been another major job killer.  (more…)

The Season of our Discontent
by Jeff Ward, KCRR President

The sight of multi-millionaire propagandist Michael Moore communing with the hippies at Occupy Wall Street conjures up a single word. Hypocrisy.  Hypocrisy of the highest order.  For Mr. Disingenuous to egg on the scions of the eastern wealth to rail against the corporations that provided them with their smart phones, iPads and designer stocking caps would be laughable, if the liberal media wasn’t eating it up and designating the astro-turfed socialist slackers as a leftist equivalent to Tea Party.

Hypocrisy is not only at home among the “99%” but here in the wilderness of North Idaho. Yesterday on a local political blog, Coeur d’Alene’s own liberal Democrat “Yosemite Sam”, City Councilman Mike Kennedy, launched this election’s attack on the Reagan Republicans, Ron Lahr and myself.  Like elections past, Kennedy could not argue with the Reagan Republican-endorsed candidates Dan Gookin and Steve Adams because they are on the right side of the issues and Kennedy is on the wrong side, denying the citizens of Coeur d’Alene the right to vote on McEuen Field, supporting ridiculous pay increases for over-paid bureaucrats and refusing oversight on the LCDC.  No Mr. Kennedy was true to form and attacked the messengers not the message. (more…)