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GOOKIN: Wrong for Cd’A mayor

| October 19, 2025 1:00 AM

I served as the Coeur d’Alene city attorney from 2002-2022. I feel compelled to comment on Dan Gookin’s campaign signs boasting of his “Proven Leadership.”

The only “proven leadership” by Mr. Gookin that I witnessed was his leadership in his failed efforts to stop the city’s urban renewal agency, the library, the Kroc Center and McEuen Park. Fortunately, his failures leading those efforts allowed ignite.cda and the city to build the library, the Kroc Center, McEuen Park, the Atlas Waterfront, and other great projects.

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