New Kootenai commish may have failed to Currie favor

Huckleberries hears … new Commissioner Rick Currie made quite an impression on Idaho legislators last week. Seems the Kootenai County commission chairman was enjoying himself, along with hundreds of other commissioners, legislators and their spouses at the Idaho Association of Counties legislative grip-and-grin affair, when he noticed gadfly Larry Spencer in the DoubleTree room. Conservative Spencer, whom some see as the second coming of Ron Rankin, was talking to a couple when Commish Rikki saw him and went tikki-tavi. Blustering up to Spencer, Currie demanded to know who’d let him into the private affair for legislators and county officials. The Berry Picker, who reported the scene to Huckleberries Online, picks it up there: “There was a moment of stunned silence that was broken by a gentle deep voice as the man who had ushered in the constituent said, ‘He is with me.’ ” About that time, Currie heard that voice from that television commercial go off in his head: “Wanna get away?” The man who had invited Spencer to the reception? None other than newby House Speaker Lawerence Denney, a Midvale farmer, who was accompanied by his wife, Donna. He wasn’t impressed. Neither was my Berry Picker. Sez he: “What is it with you up north and your goofy commissioners? You used to send that arrogant jerk from Kootenai County (I forget his name, but he was representing you last year) and now the Kootenai County chairman follows in his shoes in a moronic attempt to alienate the Legislature.” Alas.