... that City Hall is checking to see if antagonist Larry Spencer misrepresented himself when he asked Architects West recently to see plans for the Kroc Center. Reportedly, Spencer appeared at Architects West and said something to the extent: "The Mayor asked me to come down and look at the plans to see if I could save her some money." He did not give his name, and the woman helping him told Salvation Army Major John Chamness that Spencer came across as someone from the mayor's office. In a conversation with Spencer yesterday, I asked him about this situation. He assured me that he never said he was from the mayor's office. He said he told the woman that he needed to see the plans in an effort to save the mayor money on the project. Seems Spencer looked at an older rendering of the site plan for about 10 minutes and then left. Major Chamness said later, "No one walked him through the site plan and since it was an outdated version it would not provide him with accurate information." The Architects West worker told Major Chamness she didn't recognize Spencer until she saw a photo of him in a Coeur d'Alene Press op-ed piece last Sunday.

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