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... That Matt Roetter is about to become the latest victim of the takeover of the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee by supporters of state Rep. Phil Hart. At a Central Committee meeting Tuesday night, Chairwoman Tina Jacobson, who has substituted for Hart in the state Legislature, sought and received the votes for a motion to send Roetter a letter demanding his resignation as the state committeeman. Roetter angered Jacobson earlier this month at an executive board meeting when he refused to support Hart as a result of his tax problems. You read about it earlier on Huckleberries Online. Roetter was backing the attempt by write-in candidate Howard Griffiths to put his literature at a Repubican event a few days later, noting that Griffiths had been a Republican his entire life while Hart had switched from being a Constitutionalist simply to get elected. The Central Committee apparently will vote on Roetter's ouster, if he refuses to agree to the demand to step down.



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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