Gookin Responds To Rasmussen

City Council candidate Dan Gookin sent the following response to Huckleberries Online to this morning’s post re: Duane Rasmussen leaving the Reagan Republicans : “It’s cross-eyed partisans like Rasmussen who are ruining this country. Putting party over individuals, even over issues, is just wrong. I told the party officials that it was a non-partisan race and there is no point in my declaring that I’m a this-or-that. If they want a city council race to be partisan, then the party needs to change state law. I’m opposed to that. We don’t need to see the muck of national partisan polarization dragged in over local issues. Rasmussen is too closed-minded and obsessed to see that, as are his opposites on the Dem side, which is sad for people who want honest government in Coeur d’Alene.”