Christa Hazel, a Kootenai County GOP precinct committeewoman and Coeur d'Alene School District trustee presents another side to the Central Committee meeting Tuesday, one in which the Central Committee took a position against construction of a Citylink transit center at Riverstone. In doing so, she refers to an article in the local Redoubt movement's Charles Carroll Society blog opposing the project here and the story in the Coeur d'Alene Press today here:

This is the link on Redoubt views on dishonest "liberals" (including moderate Rs that are also "liberal") who support bus services.

I saw in the paper that ongoing costs regarding landscaping was an issue. I was at this meeting. The predominant worry was not landscaping (I'm not sure that was even brought up) -- it was inner city crime. Chicago has buses and there's crime. Oakland has transit services and now there's crime. It was a very negative meeting and in no way represented my views nor even Republican Party views. This flies in the face of our religious community helping out those less fortunate. It violates our platform that supports Older Americans in accessing any and all services provided by local, state, and federal levels.

In my opinion, the R in KCRCC now clearly stands for Redoubt. Those people don't speak for me and to have Redoubt so heavily focused in a county GOP party meeting is a serious concern.

PS - Jody Bieze is inferred in this blog post authored by Alex Barron, a Redoubter and secretary for the KCRCC as dishonest and liberal for supporting the transit center. She is a Republican Precinct Committeewoman and is also very involved in the planning of this center. She was prevented from speaking as she wished by our County Chair at our GOP meeting while folks like Steve Adams were allowed to go off topic about crime and reminded us he didn't even support City Link as a city councilman and "wishes it would go away" now.