CdA Board To Pick Trustee Today

Item: Cd’A School District trustee to be appointed Monday /Coeur d’Alene Press

More Info: By Friday, letters of interest had come in from Christa Hazel, a stay-at-home mom who served as chair of the district’s Long Range Planning Committee; Tony Norris, the parent of two children at Bryan Elementary School; Carole Stringer, an “elections administration and training consultant;” and Wanda Quinn, a program development specialist at the University of Idaho-Cd’A and former trustee who served from 1994 to 2006. Downtown restaurant owner and former candidate Jim Purtee threw his hat in the ring earlier this week.

Question: Trustees-elect Tom Hamilton and Terri Seymour have complained that they want to be part of the process of naming the new trustee. If the tables were turned, and Tea Party Republicans had control of the board, do you think they’d do what resigning Chairwoman Edie Brooks and the board is doing now?