Mayor Sandi Bloem's a – what? A hottie? A coupla guys from Huckleberries Online are impressed with the Coeur d'Alene's sixtysomething mayor's fashion sense and "serious babage." It started Monday when I mentioned that Her Sandiness had summoned Dan Gookin for a heart-to-heart talk about Kroc Center. Gookin has posted some high-propane questions about the community center on the blog. Gookin reported back later in the day that he had a good discussion with the mayor and Councilman Mike Kennedy. Also, Gookin said he was impressed by the mayor's fashion sense. Quoth: "The mayor was stunning. … Mike Kennedy and I sat at the same table with her, and we could have been her yard workers based on how we dressed in comparison. I cannot deny that Mayor Bloem is serious babage." While I wondered whether "babage" should be spelled "B-A-B-E-A-G-E, commenter OrangeTV interjected on the blog: "Sandi Bloem is a hard-core fashionista." OTV said his jaw dropped when he tuned into last Tuesday's council meeting and saw Her Sandiness "squeezed delicately into a shiny plastic grey-and-black leopard print jacket and wearing her usual amount of bling. Her trademark salt-and-pepper upswept hairdo was 10x more vicious than usual." OTV speculates that the mayor looked "extra fierce" because she was trying to charm the council into OK'ing a $3 million expenditure/land swap needed to build the new community center. Mebbe we can package this admiration of our mayor into a city motto: Our mayor's more stylish than yours

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