Duane Rasmussen (RE: Hillman enjoys NIPAC lunch):  From what I hear and from what I observed, the Lincoln Day Dinner was a somber event. Not much to talk about there unless you want to mention the incident where an organizer tried to chew out a reporter.

DFO: I've heard several things re: Lincoln Day Dinner -- that Gov. Otter didn't get the warmest of greetings. That KCRCC chairman Neil Oliver botched a joke that was suppose to be at Sheriff Ben Wolfinger's expense and mispronounced some names. That judge candidates took some good swipes at one another. But I wasn't there. The Coeur d'Alene Press report didn't say much about the tenor of the evening.

Question: Can anyone out there who attended the Lincoln Day Dinner describe the event for us?