AM Hucks: Spen-sah Calls CDA/SA Deal A Kroc

So, self-appointed army-of-one Larry Spencer called the cops on the city of Coeur d’Alene for moving ahead with plans to swap land and remediate a 12-acre site for the $33 million Kroc Center? And the cops told him to pound sand? In an internal memo (which landed in an e-mail box for Huckleberries Online on Thursday), City Administrator Wendy Gabriel said Spencer, who claims with a straight face that he supports the Kroc Center project, tried to sic the Idaho State Police on Mayor Sandi Bloem & Co. Seems Spencer complained to ISP Capt. Clark Rollins about a possible church-state violation involving the Kroc Center. In the World According to Spencer, council members may have crossed the constitutional line when they agreed to spend up to $3 million reclaiming that gravel pit site for the community center on the southern edge of Ramsey Park. There’s also a land swap involved that’ll put the center into Salvation Army hands. Spencer sees that as a problem (and his wedge to stop the project or scare the Salvation Army off). City Attorney Mike Gridley doesn’t. Capt. Rollins didn’t see it as his problem. Quoth Gabriel (in her memo): “Captain Rollins was just providing a heads-up that in his return call to Larry Spencer, he would advise him that his complaint is civil in nature, and not criminal, and so no investigation would be conducted.” When HBO printed Gabriel’s memo online yesterday, Spencer commented, “Why do people insist that because I want the laws and constitution to be followed I am against the center?” Why indeed.