The county Republican Central Committee has a clever plan to install a neo-Nazi as chair of the county Democratic Party.
'Kootenai Republican in call says he wants to infiltrate Democrats, funnel money to GOP'
The Kootenai County Republican Central Committee has reportedly planned and recruited volunteers to infiltrate the Kootenai Democrats, install an “antisemitic troll” as party chair and funnel money donated to Democrats to local Republicans instead.
A recorded phone call between Kootenai County resident John Grimm and a person he identified as KCRCC Youth Chair Dan Bell appeared to reveal the plan.
“Long story short, we want to take over the Democrat Party,” Bell reportedly said during the Tuesday call.
In Idaho, recording telephone conversations is allowed with the consent of at least one party to the conversation.
Grimm, who ran unsuccessfully for Kootenai County Sheriff in 2020, said he recorded the call to remove any uncertainty about what was said.
“I know from personal observation that certain members of the KCRCC are masters of deception with an ability to twist the meaning of even their own statements,” he said.
Grimm also made it clear that he’s a staunch, conservative Republican but that the KCRCC has “gone too far.”
The full 30-minute recording is available at cdapress.com.
In the call, Bell described a plan by the KCRCC to take control of the local Democratic Party by having their own candidates run for Democrat precinct captain positions.
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Upon election, Bell said, the KCRCC’s plants would vote David J. Reilly in as party chair.
“A guy that they call racist, antisemitic, Holocaust denier,” Bell said. “That same guy would be the chair of the Kootenai Democrat Party.”
A recent Pennsylvania transplant, Reilly was condemned by the nation’s largest pro-Israel organization for his antisemitic writings and called an “antisemitic troll” by The Daily Beast.
Reilly, whose social media posts in 2020 included comments that “all Jews are dangerous” and that more Americans should believe antisemitic stereotypes, ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Post Falls School Board in 2021.
The KCRCC endorsed his candidacy.
The party chair calls meetings. With Reilly in that position, Bell said, there simply won’t be another meeting of the Kootenai Democrats for at least two years, when the next primary election occurs.
