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KCRCC Recommendation Facts

You need to make decisions on how to vote in the upcoming local election on November 5th. Who should you listen to for advice? Your local official Republican Party, the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee (KCRCC), has put considerable time and effort into making recommendations for the November election and voters overwhelmingly appreciate the work […]

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Candidate Recommendations

The Kootenai County Republican Central Committee (KCRCC) held a special meeting on Tuesday to review the candidates for the November election and then to vote by secret ballot on which candidates the KCRCC would recommend. Many organizations, groups and associations endorse candidates for office. These groups typically are composed of individuals who are bound together […]

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Conventional Wisdom

The Idaho Republican Convention happened last weekend and it was a success in multiple ways. The three day event began with committee meetings held at The Coeur d’Alene Resort and ended with a General Session at NIC’s Schuler Auditorium. The NIC catering staff supplied a delicious lunch for 750 people on both Friday and Saturday. […]

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Rational Thinking

In a recent CDA Press editorial, the lingering ghost of the former editor rises like swamp gas over the Florida Everglades to regurgitate tired and biased tropes against the Republican Party whose members are 63% of the registered voters in their market. When will Press management appreciate that insulting 63% of their potential customers is […]

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Hate Lost

We have the election results and all of the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee (KCRCC) Recommended Candidates won their races. KCRCC Recommended Candidates Leslie Duncan, Marc Eberlein, Bob Norris, Carl Bjerke and Elaine Price won their competitive races by wide margins. This is a repeat of the 2022 primary where all of the KCRCC Recommended […]

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Principle or Power

“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” Alexander Hamilton What is a Republican? Anyone who is qualified to vote can affiliate with the Republican Party and call themselves a “Republican.” There is no test or oath, just check a box and you are in. But what if there is a candidate who claims to […]

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Answering the Critics

There is a coordinated statewide effort to destroy the Idaho Conservative Grassroots Movement from the inside and turn Idaho blue. A gang of Boise political consultants calling themselves “Gem State Conservatives” brag about having $2 million to accomplish this goal. In truth it’s the “Gem State Heist” because it’s nearly identical to the Rocky Mountain […]

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Recommended Candidates

The Kootenai County Republican Central Committee (KCRCC), the official Republican Party, has made their recommendations for the upcoming May Primary Election. The KCRCC candidate rating and vetting process is just that, a process involving questionnaires, interviews, candidate forums, due diligence, sub-committee reports, discussion, debate, and finally a vote by the full KCRCC. Candidates are initially […]

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Kootenai County Republican Central Committee Rejects Supremacy

3/27/24 – In response to the rising levels of vitriol in political discourse and the reported terrible events of last week, the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee (KCRCC) has issued a Resolution which unequivocally rejects all forms of racial, religious, sexual, and political supremacy. Additionally, we condemn all political violence and the weaponization of labels […]

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Republicans Do The Splits

In our current political scene, it looks like Republicans in North Idaho are doing the splits. We have a far right extremely small splinter group largely composed of out-of-state agitators who are either Catholic monarchists, anti-Semites, Christian Nationalist authoritarians, or some combination of those or other tiny faction. Then we have the Kootenai County Republican […]

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The New Republican Party

Kootenai County is the home of the most successful, respected and emulated Republican Central Committee in Idaho, the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee or KCRCC. The mission of the KCRCC is to enhance freedom and prosperity by promoting fiscally and socially conservative candidates who will implement the Idaho Republican Party Platform as policy. Republican voters […]

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Are You Brainwashed?

The short answer is yes, we all are to some degree brainwashed. Our society is flooded with competing messages designed to influence your viewpoint and perceptions. Some brainwashing efforts are small and localized while others involve the entire country or even the world. Regardless of scale, every stream of information seems to have a bias. […]

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