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Wild Card/Monday — 3.17.14

Gotta give credit where credit is due. Joker accurately predicted that uberconservative maverick Larry Spencer would file as a Democrat to vote in the zany primaries this spring. Click here. But no one predicted that Spencer would file has candidacy papers to run as a Democrat for county assessor. Nor did anyone see that several hardline conservatives would file for precinct posts on the Democratic side for a possible takeover attempt of the Kootenai County Democratic Central Committee. Just when you think things couldn't get any zanier in Kootenai County politics ... they do. Now for today's Wild Card ...



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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