Brannon Has (Another) Day In Court

Here’s part of SReporter Scott Maben’s report  on today’s Idaho Supreme Court hearing on Jim Brannon’s challenge of his 2009 Coeur d’Alene City Council loss to incumbent Mike Kennedy:

Coeur d’Alene lawyer Starr Kelso, arguing Brannon’s appeal, raised nearly two dozen issues in the case in filings with the Supreme Court. In oral arguments today in Coeur d’Alene, Kelso focused on the legitimacy of several absentee ballots cast by voters living out of state, as well as a disparity in the total number of absentee ballots cast and counted in the Nov. 3, 2009, election. Either point, he argued, is reason to void the election results. Kelso also argued the city did not have the legal authority to contract with Kootenai County to conduct the election, and he alleged misconduct on the part of the county’s elections department.

Question: If the shoe was on the other foot, and Brannon had beaten Kennedy by 3 to 5 votes, and Kennedy had pursued this long, legal attempt to overturn the election, how loudly would local Republicans be crying and denouncing Kennedy?