COLUMNIST: Pot, meet kettle

Babette Banducci’s My Turn column of April 27 is another excellent example of KCRCC and Brent Regan sycophants intentionally spreading misinformation and exposing their blatant hypocrisy.

First, she displays an alarming lack of reading comprehension: She miscomprehends “vote in lockstep with Brent Regan” to mean voting for local Precinct Captains when it’s clearly about voting for the many KCRCC-endorsed local boards and city council candidates. 

She doesn’t seem to know how to apply context from other sentences in the paragraph. She doesn’t understand what “ascribed” means or what a “pipe dream” is. And she can’t seem to decide if she’s talking ABOUT Dean Haagenson or TO him.

Then comes the obligatory misinformation: That our various and many local library and school boards have “for decades” made “liberal decisions.” Until Mr. Regan began leading the KCRCC, those committees were all nonpartisan and incredibly successful. Chasing hot-topic culture-war boogiemen is not the same thing as the KCRCC “turning around the Titanic.” More like steering it into an iceberg. 

She also trots out the tired trope that anyone not drinking the KCRCC Kool-Aid must be the enemy, that North Idaho Republicans are the “other party.” And, of course, it’s all the media’s fault.

Finally, we mustn’t overlook her blatant hypocrisy: She criticizes the “other side of the spectrum” for unintelligent name calling, then proceeds to call her fellow Republicans “ineffective,” “lazy,” “obtuse,” “lying,” “liberal,” “RINOs.” 

And after this unhinged diatribe she has the gall to ask, “Who are you to question a person’s character because they do not agree with you?!” Own a mirror?

Ultimately, she does make a good case. Just not the one she meant to.

RICHARD MONTGOMERY

Coeur d’Alene