Habitat Lays Off Candidate Brannon

Item: Habitat boss is abruptly fired: Board chairman: Brannon dismissed for fiscal, not political, reasons /Tom Hasslinger, Coeur d’Alene Press

More Info: Ninety minutes before his live, televised debate for a Coeur d’Alene city council seat was to begin Wednesday evening, Jim Brannon was notified that he was fired. Brannon, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of North Idaho, was given a letter stating that today would be his last day and that he would be paid through the end of the month. Habitat board chairman Rick Shipman says the decision to eliminate Brannon’s job was purely fiscal. Brannon supporter and businessman Jim Doty believes the decision was politically inspired.

Question: What do you think of the suspicion by supporter Jim Doty that Brannon’s firing was politically motivated?