Elsewhere in the local cybersphere, Dan "Threats and Intimidation Run This Town" Gookin & his playmates continue to complain about HucksOnline while expressing confidence that mayoral candidate Mary Souza will lead them to the promised land (unbridaled power) in November. They find HucksOnline coverage of the mayoral debate unfair. They claim you Merry Hucksters and I will be smiling out of the other sides of our mouths when the Reagan Republican candidates sweep into office. They  seem to forget that the Shire (Coeur d'Alene) isn't the knee-jerk partisan place that other communities in Kootenai County appear to be. They also forget that Coeur d'Alene voters handed the Reagan Republicans their lunch in May. I wasn't sure what to expect from the Reagan Republican candidates until I watched the candidates' forum Wednesday. Mary Souza held her own with Steve Widmyer, continuing to distance herself from the angry writer of newsletters and OpenCDA posts of days gone by, while offering a "Souza Plan" that tries to pit city residents against the downtown. Chris Fillios (the best of the Reagan Republican council candidates) introduced the "regular and necessary" line re: city government expenses, speaking of parks only in terms of budget scrutiny -- not beauty and quality of life. I don't expect much from Reagan Republican candidates Noel Adam and Sharon Hebert, other than joining Councilman Steve Adams as a bloc of "no: votes, should they be elected. OTOH, Coeur d'Alene might need a slate of Reagan Republican candidates sweeping into office to shock the community awake. That's what happened when the Reagan Republican appointees joined two elected trustees, Tom Hamilton and Terri Seymour) in running the Coeur d'Alene School Board off the rails for 12-18 months. It's often said that this or that election is the most important one. Ever. In my 30 years in Coeur d'Alene, the municipal election this fall comes closest to fitting that bill/DFO.