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For those keeping score at home, Mike Kralicek, the former Coeur d’Alene police officer who 
was critically wounded in the line of duty a few years back, supports Councilman Mike Kennedy 100 percent. I just got off the phone with Kralicek. He told me that he called Mike Kennedy, offering his help in any way because he considered the councilman to be a strong supporter of public safety. Said MikeK: “The police and fire departments supported him. That’s why I knew he was OK.” Carrie told me that her husband made the decision on his own to join M-Kennedy in going through the Coeur d’Alene Place neighborhood. Her daughter pushed her husband in a wheelchair, Carrie said, because M-Kralicek can’t walk far on his own due to the horrific injuries he suffered in the shooting. She denounced anyone who would circulate the rumor that the police union forced her husband to support M-Kennedy against his will. Said Carrie: “Some people act as though Mike doesn’t have a brain in his head to make his own decisions.”
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LarrySpencer on November 20 at 12:43 p.m.
“She denounced anyone who would circulate the rumor that the police union forced her husband to support M-Kennedy against his will.”
Wow, DFO, she is denouncing you! And you still front-paged it?
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Phaedrus on November 20 at 1:27 p.m.
So LarrySpencer, now that the truth is known will you apologize to DFO for calling BS? Will you tell your fan club of one over on the CdA Press site (LTR) that you were wrong? That the original source of this rumor was on of the original members of the Gary/Larry/Mary club? Will you denounce Jim Brannon for the gutless way in which he allowed this vicious rumor to be spread by his supporters? Or will you just act like you weren't wrong and that your little friends (by little I am referring to their character)never started this rumor slandering Mike Kralicek?
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Stickman on November 20 at 4:23 p.m.
Phaed, you are definitely beginning to grow on me. I see a beautiful walking stick in your future, from wherever you have to come from someday. I'm not going anywhere, soon that is.
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Stickman on November 20 at 4:26 p.m.
As for Mike, he's our councilman and our friend, of course I support him.
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