Steve Adams to enter Cd'A council race

The Press just received this release from Steve Adams:

Coeur d'Alene small businessman and community activist Steve Adams will announce today his candidacy for Coeur d'Alene City Council. Adams, who came close to winning a council seat two years ago, will make the announcement at a gathering of supporters in Bluegrass City Park today at 6 p.m.

Adams, 45, is an Allstate insurance agent and a native of Coeur d'Alene, where he lives with his wife, Candace, and three sons, ages 16, 7 and 4. He is a 1984 graduate of Coeur d'Alene High School and attended North Idaho College and the University of Idaho. As well as running his small business, Steve has been very involved in community affairs. He is an active volunteer, serving as a youth sports coach and umpire, Sunday school teacher and leading an annual ministry to the poor. He's been a leader in Coeur d'Alene serving on the City of Coeur d'Alene Parking Commission and elected by his neighbors as Republican Committee Chair for the 39th Precinct. He also is the 4th Legislative District Chairman, elected by the Republican Precinct Chairs in Coeur d'Alene in 2010 and also is the Vice President of Citizenship of the Kootenai County Reagan Republicans.

"We all have a civic duty to be educated on political issues and public affairs, and at the very least vote. I am taking it one step further by running for office," Adams said of his candidacy. "We need balance on the council. I am staunch fiscal conservative who will be critical of unnecessary city spending and tax increases. I will stand for our neighborhoods not the downtown establishment."

Adams describes his top issues as support for a public vote on McEuen Field changes, opposition to proposed city pay hikes in the midst of the Obama recession and support of public safety in Coeur d'Alene.