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Clark: Creative by Nature? That’s the best tourism chuckleheads can do?

Jason Peterson snaps a cell phone picture of the Spokane River Lower Falls during his luch hour, Feb. 29, 2016, in downtown Spokane, Wash. (Dan Pelle / The Spokesman-Review)
Jason Peterson snaps a cell phone picture of the Spokane River Lower Falls during his luch hour, Feb. 29, 2016, in downtown Spokane, Wash. (Dan Pelle / The Spokesman-Review)

This Russian hacking menace must stop.

First they try to mess with the election. Now it appears they’ve hypnotized our tourism chuckleheads into tossing nearly $250,000 down a marmot hole for a new, lame civic slogan that is even lamer than the last lame slogan they tagged us with.

I hope it’s the Russians.

It’s far worse to believe that the Visit Spokane boosters signed off on their own for what they unveiled last week.

“Spokane. Creative by Nature.”

I thought this was a joke when I first heard it.

Creative by Nature?

That’s no slogan. That’s what a clueless parent says when his psycho kid is caught setting fire to the neighbor’s cat. More here.



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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