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By Dave Oliveria
Now that local Republicans “own” the Kootenai County Courthouse, I predict they’ll go after Coeur d’Alene City Hall next. Incumbents Ron Edinger, Al Hassell, & John Bruning will have the fight of their lives if they seek re-election because, I suspect, they’ll face a ticket of Republicans in their nonpartisan races that’ll have the seal of approval of Jacobson/ Hart/Pederson Republicans. You saw Republican involvement come into play in Jim Brannon’s race against Mike Kennedy last year – and in the subsequent donation to the Brannon legal defense fund. I’ve felt all along that Brannon would have won that race, if the Reagan Republicans had climbed aboard his poorly managed campaign a week earlier.
Spin Control
By Jim Camden
Gov. Chris Gregoire is dressing as Morticia Addams this year for Halloween, and husband Mike is dressing as Gomez.
They’re hosting Halloween at the governor’s mansion, an annual event. Kids get candy, and five will find they have tickets to the Holiday Tour of the Mansion later this year.
OK, that’s it from the capital for Oct. 31, 2010. Go ahead and make comments about the governor’s choice of costume.
Sirens & Gavels
By Meghann Cuniff
A Spokane man sought on a car theft warrant faces an additional felony charge for allegedly attacking a police dog.
Cephas W. Parham, 34, choked Spokane police Officer Paul Gorman’s K-9 Maximus during a pursuit in the Shadle Park area.
Parham appeared in Superior Court on Monday on a felony charge of harming a police dog, a class C felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Police were trying to arrest Parham on a warrant for possession of a stolen motor vehicle when he ran from a home at 4207 N. Cannon St. on Oct. 25.
Maximus caught up with Parham three times, but Parham assaulted the dog each time, police said. Gorman used a neck restraint maneuver to stop Parham from choking Maximus, who was thrown into a brick wall by his collar and also sustained injuries to the inside of his mouth, according to court documents.
“These injuries would be difficult to articulate based on obvious inabilities on the canine’s part to communicate injury and pain,” police wrote.