Edit: Take heed, Heather & Raul

If you want to turn conventional wisdom on its head in Idaho, start flirting with access to public lands. When then-Congressman C.L. “Butch” Otter even suggested selling off some federal acres to finance relief to Hurricane Katrina victims, he handed his Democratic rival in the upcoming 2006 gubernatorial campaign, newspaper publisher Jerry Brady, his rallying cry: “Idaho is not for sale.” That fall, Brady came the closest of any Democratic candidate for governor - 44.1 percent - since Cecil Andrus retired in 1995. Then this spring, the unthinkable became the fact. Two arch foes of federal land management - Idaho County Commission Chairman Jim Chmelik and state Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll, R-Cottonwood - went down to defeat/ Marty Trillhaase , Lewiston Tribune. More here .

Question: Isn’t it time we start holding legislators in Kootenai County legislators accountable for their stands on the goofy idea of public land transfer?