In an editorial Friday, the Coeur d'Alene Press said:

John Stone got his own billboard, too.

Only instead of his comeuppance appearing on a lighted sign somewhere, Stone’s arrived Tuesday night in the form of a verbal lashing from longtime Coeur d’Alene City Council member Ron Edinger.

“The billboard is a bunch of crap,” Edinger opined to a City Council meeting audience, many of them there to show support for Ironman Coeur d’Alene.

Stone, you’ll recall, spoke out during a City Council meeting June 6 when he’d heard rumors about possible changes to the Ironman contract. And change it did: The Coeur d’Alene Chamber of Commerce and Ironman’s owner, World Triathlon Corp., announced a short time later that their new pact includes three additional years of the half-Ironman but not the full race. Aug. 27 is the last scheduled Ironman 140.6 in Coeur d’Alene.

Stone’s reaction? A nasty message on Riverstone’s readerboard that could be seen from Seltice Way and Interstate 90. With a photo of Ironman swimmers splashing into the lake, it read: Dump the Mayor, not the Ironman. More here.