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Wild Card/Saturday — 10.31.09

It's Halloween -- and the scariest thing you encounter today might be in your mailbox. Today and Monday are the two last good days to send a direct mail flier to coax targeted voters into your camp. Two years ago, of course, Kathy Sims and Tom Macy circulated their infamous flier that attacked City Council incumbents and later got them into campaign finance problems. It'll be interesting to see if the challengers pool resources to circulate a last-minute blast via snail mail. I received Woody McEver's clever mailing today, resembling a wanted poster. What do you expect to happen on the campaign front this weekend. While you're mulling that question, I'll play the 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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