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KCRCC’s defamation lawsuit against Gookin continues

by KAYE THORNBRUGH
Staff Writer | January 23, 2025 1:00 AM

COEUR d’ALENE — If the Kootenai County GOP’s defamation lawsuit against one of its own goes to trial, it won’t happen before October, about two years after the suit was initially filed.

Last October, Kootenai County Republican Central Committee sued Dan Gookin, a precinct committeeman and Coeur d’Alene city councilor, accusing Gookin of defaming the organization by accusing it of “rigging its 2023 candidate ‘rating and vetting’ process, perpetrating a fraud on its members and violating campaign finance laws — things which simply have not happened.” 

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