Minnick Got Repub Invite Aug. 19

Jeff Ward, president of the Kootenai County Reagan Republicans, tells Huckleberries that his organization invited Walt Minnick to address a meeting on health reform before the Democrat congressman announced his own townhall meeting at North Idaho College. In an e-mail this afternoon, Ward said:” We invited Rep. Minnick via his http://minnick.house.gov site on 8/19/2009 (letter attached). I believe on 8/21 he announced his own forum and Marie Hathaway (sic) , a Minnick staffer contacted me on the same day. I commented on my take on this process in a letter to the CDA Press (attached). I also got to invite him personally at the forum on the 24th. That night I told Marie that the invitation still stood.” You can read the Ward’s invitation to tonight’s 7 o’clock meeting at the Coeur d’Alene Resort here .