For some time I have regarded the members of the Coeur d’Alene City Council as not much more than a collection of over-the-hill, simple-minded people incapable of making decisions in support of the people who elected them. I was wrong.

Given the decision to grant another $69,000 in support of Mr. Kennedy’s desperate attempt to hang on to a seat that subsequent evidence may well demonstrate that he is not entitled to, I’m now convinced that insanity runs rampant in the ranks of that self-serving little group.

Thank God I live in the county.

GEORGE W. HELMS

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