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RRepub: Elections = Game Of Risk

Reagan Repub: It’s like all the boards, foundations and public corporations in Coeur d’Alene think the city is a big game of Monopoly. One group buys some property then trades to another then leases it to another. I don’t know how they keep it all straight and know who actually owns what. The problem is when someone lands on Park Place it’s the taxpayer that pays the bill (and not with that worthless technicolor money either.) But at election time it’s a big game of Risk. You don’t know who’s for you or who’s against you but you know that someone’s is trying to take over the world.

Question: Which board game would you compare local elections to?



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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