The sight of multi-millionaire propagandist Michael Moore communing with the hippies at Occupy Wall Street conjures up a single word. Hypocrisy.  Hypocrisy of the highest order.  For Mr. Disingenuous to egg on the scions of the eastern wealth to rail against the corporations that provided them with their smart phones, iPads and designer stocking caps would be laughable, if the liberal media wasn't eating it up and designating the astro-turfed socialist slackers as a leftist equivalent to Tea Party.

Hypocrisy is not only at home among the "99%" but here in the wilderness of North Idaho. Yesterday on a local political blog, Coeur d'Alene's own liberal Democrat "Yosemite Sam", City Councilman Mike Kennedy, launched this election's attack on the Reagan Republicans, Ron Lahr and myself.  Like elections past, Kennedy could not argue with the Reagan Republican-endorsed candidates Dan Gookin and Steve Adams because they are on the right side of the issues and Kennedy is on the wrong side, denying the citizens of Coeur d'Alene the right to vote on McEuen Field, supporting ridiculous pay increases for over-paid bureaucrats and refusing oversight on the LCDC.  No Mr. Kennedy was true to form and attacked the messengers not the message.

In the 2009 election, Kennedy and his allies on the City Council and the City Administrator attacked KCRR by threatening to use the city to sue us for exercising our right to free speech in supporting Jim Brannon.  This May, with the aid of his cohort, city police spokeswoman Kristy Wood and their nattering anonymous henchmen at HBO blog, he launched a scurrilous attack, on Tom Hamilton, Terri Seymour, Citizens for Better Education and the Reagan Republicans slandering us by attempting to link us with Aryan Nazis.  Thank God the people of the Coeur d'Alene School District refused to buy Kennedy's garbage and Tom and Terri handily beat the Kennedy-backed candidates.

This election, with the prospects of his candidates looking quite dim, Landslide Mike has lashed out at the Reagan Republicans and the conservative public relations firm, The Strategery Group.  The Strategery Group is a small company started in March by Ron Lahr's Pandamic Inc. to assist other companies and Republican candidates with public relations, fundraising and political campaigns. I signed on as chief consultant but like most start-ups, almost all of the revenues go to just staying afloat.  During this campaign season I am pretty much a volunteer since I do not receive any pay.  In fact, no employee of Strategery or Pandamic, Inc. has received any pay at all for working on any city council race. None. Yet Mr. Kennedy has attacked this little business, KCRR and our Victory Fund for helping his political enemies to get elected.  Despite that fact only three of seven KCRR endorsed candidates are clients to the group and every endorsed candidate received the maximum donation from the Victory Fund, Kennedy is attempting paint a false picture of a cabal of evil Republicans using the Reagan Republicans for extravagant personal gain.  Bunk.  (Note: my wife made me write "bunk" - I wanted to use another word.)

Here the lies the grand hypocrisy.  Before Mr. Kennedy found a political sugar-daddy to install him in a well-paid position, he was a "consultant to . . . political entities and individuals" (or so says his biography on his website "the Idaho Kennedys".) While the Strategery Groups has charged consulting fees from $100 per month (for school board candidates) to a few hundred for other candidates, back in 2002 Mr. Kennedy was in a whole other league.  Democrat Senate Candidate Alan Blinken paid "consultant" Mike Kennedy over $40,000 between May and October 2002 including a monthly "housing" allowance.  And what did Mr. Blinken get for his money.  32.5%; losing 2 to 1 on election night.

The people of Kootenai County and Coeur d'Alene do not need any more of Mr. Kennedy's and his minion's hypocritical innuendo and defamatory attacks.  They need new leadership like Dan Gookin and Steve Adams on the Coeur d'Alene City Council.  Please vote and work for the conservative Reagan Republican-endorsed candidates on November 8.