AM Hucks: Putting The Omission in Commission

The Huckleberries Online crowd didn’t react well to Kootenai County’s refusal to hand over more records involving the never-ending soap opera at the prosecutor’s office. The S-R is suing for the records from the investigation that prompted Chief Deputy Prosecutor Rick Baughman to resign. In a clever shell game, commissioner, er, counselor Erika Grubbs sez she can’t hand over the records because the county doesn’t have a written copy. An online post Wednesday attracted 33 comments, including:

• “Secrecy all the way. We will have to pry those public records, e-mails, recordings from their (Grubby) little hands until we the people vote in honest, open, ethical individuals with some backbone into office” – Mike.

• “We didn’t elect Erika Grubbs or ICRMP (county insurance company). We elected Currie, Piazza and Tondee. They are accountable. They can all be unelected if this idiocy continues” – Buck.

• Borrowing from John Adams (the ex-prez, not the county public defender), Thom George writes, “In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a County Commission.”