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City Clerk Responds To Gookin

The following email was sent by City Clerk Susan Weathers to Councilman Dan Gookin and all those contacted by email in the 2.27 post below re: Gookin's future emails:

"I noticed the blog.  I have a few questions:  Who wrote your email to Wendy?  Do you truly feel it was a professional email? Did you ask her how the delayed communication to the Council occurred or did you just  assume she did it purposely?  Dan, I am not trying to create a rift between us, but sometimes we need to take responsibility for our own actions and, in this case, I think you jumped to a conclusion before you got all the information.  I am not trying to defending our Administrator, she has the strength of character to stand up for herself. I will give you some advice that I quickly learned when I first came to work at the City and that is don’t put in writing what you would not want published."

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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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