Voters reject negativity, back ignite

Tuesday’s Coeur d’Alene City Council elections made it clear voters don’t like negative campaigning. They have grown tired of last-minute tactics in which candidates make up something to smear an opponent. They want candidates who just run on their own record. And the election also ended up serving as a referendum on the value of the community’s urban renewal agency, ignite cda. “What the Coeur d’Alene voters chose was the candidates who they felt were going to have a positive effect on the community,” Coeur d’Alene Mayor Steve Widmyer said Wednesday/ David Cole , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here .

Question: Do you agree with the Press analysis that the urban renewal agency, ignite cda, was one of the big winners in the Coeur d’Alene city election Tuesday?