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Constitution Party: Metro Area? Bah!

Our friends from the Kootenai County Constitution Party are now concerned that the statistical metropolitan area designation assigned to Kootenai & Spokane counties will take away our freedoms in North Idaho. In a post on the KCCP website, Chad von Lind "No, obviously this is an occasion in which it behooves the state of Idaho to invoke our 10th Amendment right of Nullification and for the Coeur d’Alene/Kootenai County community to assert our endemic right of 'rule by consent of the governed.'" Von Lind outlines for unwanted outcomes as a result of this forced linkage, including: "Local government will become less responsive to its constituency in favor of the Industrialists and the federal government’s social engineers." You can read it all here.

  • SR editorial says combined metro area is a good thing here

Question: Do you view as positive or negative the designation of Kootenai & Spokane counties as one metropolitan statistical area?



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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