Where in the world is Alanna Brooks?

COEUR d’ALENE — Most candidates have been stumping hard for months, reaching out to voters every way possible.

But most candidates aren’t named Alanna Brooks.

Brooks, the Democratic nominee for Legislative District 2B state representative, is nowhere to be seen. Or heard.

The reclusive candidate has not issued so much as a peep since winning the primary election on May 15 over fellow Democratic candidate Richard Kohles, 935-520.

Even running afoul of state law hasn’t ended her political silence. Brooks was fined $400 earlier this year when she failed to file a campaign finance report during the primary election campaign.

Along with the Idaho Democratic Latino Caucus, Brooks was one of only two political entities fined for such violations by the state this year. She did eventually file the forms on June 18, and has continued to file reports as required by state law since then. Of note, reports show that Brooks raised zero dollars for her campaign, and spent zero dollars as well.

Brooks served as her own campaign treasurer. It’s not too uncommon for candidates who are bootstrapping it to serve as their own treasurers in small campaigns, but in lieu of boots on the ground pounding the pavement for votes, the lack of dollars and of campaign volunteers again hints that the campaign may not be actively seeking victory.

The trouble is that Brooks’s campaign passivity this year doesn’t square with her history of vigorous political activity.

In 2008, Brooks — then named Grimm — ran to represent Precinct 16 on the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee and lost, 223-186. During that same year, she took part in a pro-Second Amendment rally in Coeur d’Alene coordinated by the Reagan Republicans.

In the fall of 2008, she was an Idaho delegate to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. As reported by the Boise Weekly Sept. 4, 2008, she was one of six Ron Paul delegates from Idaho who refused to cast their votes to nominate Sen. John McCain for president. While attending the RNC, she also attended Ron Paul’s rival convention across town, BW reported.

Brooks contributed $1,830.29 to the Ron Paul campaign during 2007-8, according to FEC data. In 2010, she contributed $1,000 to Ken Roberts’ unsuccessful bid for the Republican nomination for Congress.

The FEC shows no campaign contributions by Brooks again until 2016, when she contributed $184 to Donald J. Trump’s campaign for the presidency.

According to county records, Brooks also briefly served as a deputy clerk of the district court in Kootenai County from July 6, 2015, to Aug. 16, 2016.

Earlier this fall, the Kootenai County Democratic Central Committee disavowed Brooks despite her title as their party’s nominee for state representative in Legislative District 2.

“Once again, we have a ‘fake Democrat’ running for office,” wrote KCDCC chair Shem Hanks and KCDCC LD2 chair Paula Neils on Sept. 28. “Despite the fact that she was fairly chosen, she is not a Democrat. We, as an organization, have tried multiple times and ways to contact her to get to know her; however, she did not respond to any of our overtures, even a handwritten invitation to talk over coffee. She is not known in any Democratic organization in the area.”

The KCDCC not only refrained from endorsing their candidate, but went on record as “strongly opposing her.”

Maybe more thought-provoking is the fact that the address listed on Brooks’s campaign finance reports and voter registration has been inhabited by another family since at least early this fall. The Press visited that property in Coeur d’Alene on Oct. 5 and spoke with resident Olivia Morris, who said that she and her family had bought the house and moved in Aug. 7. She did not know who Brooks was.

Some county records list another property as Brooks’s street address. Brooks obtained a notice of title from Kootenai County Community Development earlier this year on a property which in August the department cited as being in violation of land use and development code because its site disturbance permit and agreement had expired. That property is near Rockford Bay, and is in Legislative District 3.

A quit claim deed dated Aug. 9, 2011, lists another possible residence for Brooks at Hayden Lake, well within the boundaries of Legislative District 2. However, according to a warranty deed filed with the county, Brooks sold that property Feb. 16, 2016.

Whether she is a resident at any of these properties or somewhere else is unknown because Brooks did not respond to multiple requests for comment on this story.

Brooks will vie with Republican nominee John Green for Legislative District 2 voters’ affections on Tuesday. Green had nothing but good things to say about Brooks at a candidate forum held by The Press Oct. 23.

“I know Alanna Brooks. She is a real person. She is a great individual,” Green said. “If there were more of us like her, we’d probably have more Democrats.”