FIRING: More like distraction

Let me get this straight, The Press found out that Tondee got fired from a little bird. I bet that little bird is Stewart, whose timing is interesting. I guess he wants people to forget that he took campaign money from the Swartouts as a quid pro quo for the Silverwood development he has the power to move forward (see his sunshine reports. He took money from Benjamin Swartout, Dennis Swartout and Mila Swartout Wasicek). I guess something must have happened at the May 21 meeting to make him want to divert attention away from the smell of his collusion.

Ah, politics. Make back room deals and then distract the people.

C. MATHESON

Coeur d’Alene