JohnA: People ticked at KCGOPCC

John Austin, who’s a candidate for a East Side Highway District commission seat Tuesday, tells this story about phone calls he has received as a candidate:

“I have been amazed in my run for a non-partisan office (voting tomorrow, hint, hint) how many people have called and asked if I’m a Republican and aligned with the KCRCC (Kootenai County Republican Central Committee). I answer truthfully that yes, I am a moderate Republican but that I have have taken issue with the Committee’s stand on the transit center.

It’s remarkable how many people are angry with the Committee’s views on many things, especially the transit center. It’s not a Dems v. GOP issue for people I talk to but how this group can have such a lack of compassion for the elderly and less fortunate for whom CityLink has been their primary means of transport for over a decade.

I hope people will be energized to run for the precinct committee positions at the next election so we can begin to steer the group back from the far right. We need to bring a sense of the common man (and woman) back to the local party and we need to do so soon.”

DFO: John Austin provides the remedy for the sour image that the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee, with its Far Right views, has given local Republicans. The only way to oust Brent Regan’s Republicans is at the precinct level. Mainstream Republicans are faced with the difficult task of beating the Regan Republican/Idaho Freedom Foundation candidates precinct by precinct (in the 2018 GOP primary) and gaining a majority of the approximate 70 seats. Otherwise, the Regan Republicans have the numbers to continue to represent all county Republicans.