Way We Were: Denny & Mary Lou

In recent days, Jesse Tinsley’s been going through the photos that he snapped when he was first assigned to the Coeur d’Alene bureau of The Spokesman-Review 20 years ago. This is one of them — Denny Davis and Mary Lou Reed celebrating on Election Night. Since area Democrats haven’t had much to celebrate on Election Night since 1994, I’d guess this photo was from 1992 when Denny & Mary Lou were both state senators from District 2 (which encompassed all of Kootenai County and was represented by 5 legislators). To show how things have changed, state Rep. Freeman Duncan was the only Republican legislator in North Idaho.