Hucks: Readers Question Online Ire

It didn’t take Dan Gookin long to return to bashing CPD Blue spokeswoman Sgt. Christie Wood. Ornery Gookin reinvented himself as Mr. Nice Guy last fall in a council bid that fell short of unseating incumbent Deanna Goodlander. In doing so, he put distance between himself and past nasty remarks about Christie, whom he has called “Sgt. Cupcake” and “a snake.” Now, he’s back on the attack against Wood, questioning in an online comment the quality of a news release she wrote about the downtown shooting involving Coeur d’Alene businessman Adam Johnson – after she’d been up all night collecting information about the crime. Bill McCrory, one of Gookin’s easily agitated playmates at Mary Souza’s OpenCDA.com, bloviated at length about – gadzooks! – the improper use of an apostrophe by Sgt. Wood in the release. All of which prompted Sgt. Wood to offer to bake a made-to-order cupcake to any of my online readers who can explain why Gookin is angry at her 24/7. Berry Picker “Eagle Eye” may have won the prize with his response: “Gookin is intimidated by an attractive woman who carries a gun!”/ DFO , Huckleberries. More here .

• Gookin fires back (see 4:55 p.m. item under Christie Wood’s op-ed piece) here : “I’ve had it with the phoney nicey-nicey here in CdA. Leadership means taking a stand for what you believe in. It’s something we rarely see in Kootenai Co. and when we do such leaders get attacked, especially by the usual suspects on the blogs.

Question: Who do you think Gookin means by “the usual suspects on the blogs”?