Kerri: No One Tried To Block Report
Councilwoman
Kerri Thoreson
of Post Falls e-mails HBO: “I learned of Deanna’s hospitalization
last night
at a social gathering. I wrote about it in my Main Street column which will
appear in tomorrow’s Coeur d’Alene Press and which I filed about 8 a.m. this
morning. No one encouraged me not to mention it in print. We have some precedent in Post Falls with reporting illness/hospitalization
of elected officials. Mayor Clay Larkin had open heart/bypass surgery, which was
reported to the media and I went to the emergency room in January of 2008 (just
two weeks after being sworn in to the council) where an in-progress heart attack
was remediated with the placement of two coronary stents. The next morning I
notified city hall and Press Editor Mike Patrick of my status with permission to
disclose publicly.
More below.
last night
at a social gathering. I wrote about it in my Main Street column which will
appear in tomorrow’s Coeur d’Alene Press and which I filed about 8 a.m. this
morning. No one encouraged me not to mention it in print. We have some precedent in Post Falls with reporting illness/hospitalization
of elected officials. Mayor Clay Larkin had open heart/bypass surgery, which was
reported to the media and I went to the emergency room in January of 2008 (just
two weeks after being sworn in to the council) where an in-progress heart attack
was remediated with the placement of two coronary stents. The next morning I
notified city hall and Press Editor Mike Patrick of my status with permission to
disclose publicly.
More below.
Were I not an elected official, my health would have been of interest only to family and friends but I did feel a responsibility to those citizens I’d been elected to represent to fully disclose my hospitalization. To the best of my knowledge there is no municipal policy unless an illness would prevent an elected official from executing the duties of their office for an extended period of time. With technology as it is today, a speedy return to good health is more the rule than an exception.
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