Stout to be featured at Patriots Unite event

COEUR d'ALENE - You might recognize her.

Pam Stout, Sandpoint Tea Party Patriots coordinator and of New York Times and David Letterman fame, is bringing her group to Coeur d'Alene for a Patriots Unite conference Saturday.

The 2-year-old group boasts around 800 members, and will use the all-day gathering to bring awareness to the patriot movement, and to get people more involved in politics to "save the Republic," Stout said.

The group boasts around 800 members.

"We recognize we have a huge battle up ahead of us," she said. "We can't be on the edge of financial disaster without cutting our budget. That goes for people as well as the country."

The event begins at 9 a.m., but the doors open an hour earlier. Dinner will be at 6:30 p.m. Tickets cost $35, and people from all parties and affiliations are welcome.

Speakers include: Rep. Matt Shea out of Washington; Robert Brown, Regional Field Dir. John Birch Society; Laurie Roth, Ph.D., Annie Oakley of the Airways. Rep. Phil Hart, of Athol; high school student Brady Smith; Ed Berry, Ph.D., atmospheric physicist; and John Loeffler, of Steel on Steel.

As its organizer, Stout was featured in a February 2010 New York Times article, the same year she appeared as a guest on the 'Late Show with David Letterman' television show to talk about the Idaho grass roots organization.

"He was nice," she said of the host.

The conference will be held at the Coeur d'Alene Inn and Conference Center at 506 Appleway in Coeur d'Alene. Info: 610-4222.