Ron Lahr: “First, Rally Right is a Conservative Organization, not a Republican one and second they do not elect their leadership, and the Reagan Republicans do.”

Larry Spencer: I’m going to have to disagree with you here. The board no longer is “elected” the three person “nominating committee” picks the candidates they like, and discourages any other members from being considered. The slate of candidates matching the exact number of vacancies is then offered as a slate vote, and installed. At least that is how it happened last year, and is one of the reasons I resigned from the board, and rescinded my membership. The fact that they made their endorsements basically worth about the same as a peso by dropping the requirement of a unanimous vote to just 60% of those board members who are present didn’t sit well either.

Question: Spencer quit the Reagan Republicans board because he said the organization has gotten too liberal. Does that mean the Reagan Republicans are mainstream Kootenai County GOP?