CANDIDATES: Dems pushing partisan divide

Today, I received a letter endorsing Wood and Gookin. The letter states their time of service, these include Christie Wood’s time on the Coeur d’Alene School Board, NIC board, four years on Coeur d’Alene City Council. Christie also served time on the Coeur d’Alene police force, and is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force.

I would like to thank you for the service you provided.

Mr. Gookin has served many years on the city council, and wrote some “books for dummies.”

What catches my attention is the part of the letter that is warning me of far right extremists. I have been in Coeur d’Alene for over five years, after escaping from California and the politics that seem to be showing up in this beautiful community.

If either of these candidates would like to tour the Bay Area, and gain firsthand knowledge of what the progressives have turned a once enjoyable place into what I can describe as very disturbing, I would be happy to give you some places to stroll around, and no, you can’t think about defending yourselves. This type of partisan divide is what the Democrats have been pushing for many years.

I am a convert from the party you represent, never to turn back.

Please get some sense, even if it’s not common in your circles.

GARY ARFSTEN

Coeur d’Alene

Editor’s note: Dan Gookin is a Kootenai County Republican Central Committee precinct committeeman. Christie Wood has been a registered Republican for the past three years, and an unaffiliated voter for several years before that. She has never been a Democrat.