Coeur d'Alene Press4h
TOWN HALL: Silencing dissent crosses a line
For all intents and purposes, Kootenai County and the state of Idaho have crossed a line, sending our supposedly democratic institutions on a path toward a police state. This was demonstrated Saturday ...
East Idaho News9h
GoFundMe for woman dragged out of Idaho GOP meeting reaches over $320k
The woman who was forcibly removed from a town hall hosted by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee has raised over $320,000 via GoFundMe to “retain a skilled lawyer who can help her ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat13h
Security firm in viral video of GOP meeting in Idaho has long history in Mendocino County, Emerald Triangle
Lear Asset Management has been thrust into the national spotlight after some of its agents forcibly removed a woman. Locally, the firm has been known patrolling illegal cannabis grows.
The Idaho Press-Tribune14h
Public or private: Kootenai County GOP, others debate nature of controversial town hall
In the wake of a legislative town hall where plainclothes security guards dragged a woman from the Coeur d’Alene High School ...
Idaho State Journal17h
Sheriff Bob Norris and other parties will face investigation into conduct after a woman was dragged from a Coeur d’Alene town hall
Two days after private security guards dragged a woman by her arms out of a legislative town hall in Coeur d’Alene at the ...
East Idaho News21h
Was it public or private? The fate of the Kootenai County Republican town hall incident rests on this element of the free-speech debate
At the heart of the First Amendment lies the right to free speech – no government entity can restrict speech, even if it finds it insulting, unfavorable or disingenuous . “The government cannot step ...