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TGIF Wild Card — 9.17.10

What a day. What a week. It sounds like the never-ending Jim Brannon election challenge will end tomorrow, with incumbent Mike Kennedy prevailing by 4 votes instead of 5. 10 months of innuendo and name-calling. Tens of thousands of dollars in attorney and court fees. A week of tedious testimony. And Team Brannon was able to switch 1 vote in the 2009 City Council election. Brannon fanatics, of course, will screech at the judge, if things don't go their way, and claim some sort of moral victory. Who cares? Moi? I gotta kick out of JimmyMAC's comment today: "HBO is very popular in the courtroom. I saw people that I didn't know looking at HBO on their phones." Now, I'm beat ... and headed home. I don't expect a verdict Saturday. But you'll see it here if one is rendered ...



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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