City Attorney Mike Gridley has confirmed for Huckleberries Online that the city has asked the courts to dismiss challenger Jim Brannon's lawsuit to overturn the 2009 Coeur d'Alene city elections. Judge Chuck Hosack has setting a hearing date of the dismissal motion for 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 2. You can [...]
At OpenCDA.com, Bill McCrory reports that losing challenger Jim Brannon has filed an amendment to his lawsuit challenging the 2009 Coeur d'Alene city elections, dropping Kootenai County, County Clerk Dan English, and ex-county election administrator Deedie Beard from the list of defendants. The amended suit also seeks an injunction preventing' [...]
Eleven months before crucial midterm elections, a national poll indicates that the public is divided over whether the country would be better off with Democrats or Republicans controlling Congress. According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday, 40 percent of people questioned say the U.S. would be better off [...]
In a Dec. 3 comment below a post discussing Jim Brannon's court challenge of the Nov. 3 Coeur d'Alene municipal elections, "The Bashing Begins," Mary Souza encourages her troops to donate to the losing candidate: "Anyone can donate by going to jimbrannon.com, where they can use the donate button to send money through'" [...]
Lizard People: Is there a political way forward for the Alternative Right at all? I don't think so, but there are elections coming up, you know. Some people seem to think Ron Paul might run again in 2012. It's possible. We have other options, actually, and it is' [...]
According to our friends at OpenCDA.com and its "reliable source," Judge John Mitchell has disqualified himself from hearing the case involving challenger Jim Brannon's lawsuit to overturn the Coeur d'Alene municipal elections. I'll check that out in a bit. I'll post this Wild Card first, in case some of your' [...]
According to our friends at OpenCDA.com and its "reliable source," Judge John Mitchell has disqualified himself from hearing the case involving challenger Jim Brannon's lawsuit to overturn the Coeur d'Alene municipal elections. I'll check that out in a bit. I'll post this Wild Card first, in case some of your' [...]
The matter has been lost in the local blogosphere. Until now. Before Christmas, Larry Spencer challenged the right of Army Sgt. Maj. Gregory A. Proft to vote in the local elections, based on residency. And Proft fired back in a Coeur d’Alene Press comment below a Spencer letter [...]
The matter has been lost in the local blogosphere. Until now. Before Christmas, Larry Spencer challenged the right of Army Sgt. Maj. Gregory A. Proft to vote in the local elections, based on residency. And Proft fired back in a Coeur d’Alene Press comment below a Spencer letter [...]
Responding to a conspiracy theorist that compares Councilman Mike Kennedy to a Chicago machine politician (where do they find these guys?), Mary Souza of OpenCDA.com is seeking doughnations for Jim Brannon's court challenge to the Coeur d'Alene elections. Writes Mary: "Anyone can donate by going to jimbrannon.com, where they can'" [...]
The losing candidate in a Coeur d’Alene City Council race filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the outcome, naming all council members as defendants, along with the mayor, the city clerk, and Kootenai County’s clerk and elections manager/Alison Boggs, SR. More here. And: Copy of Brannon lawsuit here.
Monday's Poll: Only [...]
Update: You can read a copy of Brannon's lawsuit here (sorry it's upside-down)
The losing candidate in a Coeur d’Alene City Council race on Monday filed a lawsuit challenging the race, naming all council members as defendants, along with the mayor, the city clerk, and Kootenai County’s clerk and elections manager. In the November [...]
The results of this month’s Spokane County election were certified on Tuesday, but the counting isn’t over.
Elections officials next week will recount by hand votes in the race for Airway Heights mayor.
City Councilman Patrick Rushing’s lead over incumbent Mayor Matthew Pederson grew in the latest tally to two votes.
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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 [...]
Northeast Spokane has an electoral problem that needs to be examined after the 2010 Census is complete. The problem isn’t who gets elected, but how few people do the electing.
Results from this year’s general election follow a pattern evident in council elections since districts were drawn earlier this decade, [...]
Here’s another interesting list, this one that claims to be “The 25 Best Movie Performances of the Decade.” And of course there are many worthy selections on it. But as the comments show, there are many others that, for one reason or another, got left off. In fact, [...]
Another day ... more paranoia from the local conspiracy theorists re: the results of the Coeur d'Alene City Council elections (see: Spencer letter to Coeur d'Alene Press below). I've heard that Spencer and his shock troops are only one of several layers of Repubs, local and regional, who've bombarded county [...]
Lately it seems many supposedly nonpartisan elections are becoming less and less so. The Idaho Republican Party in June called for the party to participate in nonpartisan local elections and to identify and support the election of Republican candidates to city councils, school boards and other local government posts. The [...]
Lately it seems many supposedly nonpartisan elections are becoming less and less so. The Idaho Republican Party in June called for the party to participate in nonpartisan local elections and to identify and support the election of Republican candidates to city councils, school boards and other local government posts. The [...]
Earwitnesses in the City Hall hallway on the day of the canvassing for the Coeur d'Alene city elections last Monday tell Huckleberries of an interesting comment made by Gary Ingram. Seems Ingram, who was with Jim Doty at the time, spotted Kennedy entering the hallway and said: "There's the most'" [...]
Earwitnesses in the City Hall hallway on the day of the canvassing for the Coeur d'Alene city elections last Monday tell Huckleberries of an interesting comment made by Gary Ingram. Seems Ingram, who was with Jim Doty at the time, spotted Kennedy entering the hallway and said: "There's the most'" [...]
Spin Control regularly reports the voter turnout in elections as a gauge of the relative strength of different areas or neighborhoods.
But turnout is a percentage of the people who vote divided by the total people registered. Some areas that have high turnout don't have as many voters, and some with a relatively high number' [...]
In Bizarro World, Karl Rove is a pundit offering commentary on elections as if he had never been in politics, saying things about his President's "record of bipartisanship," and "sound leadership in the wake of 9/11" (as we raced to war in Iraq).
"Voters have a" [...]
Turnout in the city of Spokane for the Nov. 3 election averages just under 50 percent with just a few ballots yet to count.
But it varied significantly around the city, as is typical for most elections. This map divides the city's precincts into four equal segments based on turnout and [...]
