AUTHORITARIANISM: Taking hold in North Idaho

Residents of North Idaho, pay attention to actions by politically motivated citizen boards chipping away at your rights. Book banning, hiring alleged professionals to manage important affairs including legal and children’s education are among the direst threats to our way of life.

Would you hire a plumber to manage your legal affairs, a maintenance engineer to be CEO of a fortune 500 corporation? Probably not. So, why did West Bonner School District hire a political marketing manager with a history of generating scurrilous political attacks, and why would the NIC board even consider an attorney with very limited case experience and a history of filing frivolous lawsuits?

Face reality, this is all about the politics of power and control, and that neighbor, is the mission of the IFF, KCRCC. One party intent on theocratic authoritarianism has swept across the Panhandle by spreading false narratives on social media, ridiculing local news outlets, and even attacking your neighbors, calling them names, and labeling them anti-American.

The powerbrokers don’t care about you, your children, or the Idaho lifestyle, they only care about power and control. Is this who you want setting policy in Idaho? Monied outsiders and powerbrokers like Regan? It’s time for a clean sweep, from our delegation in Washington all the way to the school boards. We don’t want a one-party state run by self-serving authoritarians.

REID HARLOCKER

Coeur d’Alene