Power Player Pastors of Kootenai County Episode 07

Power Player Pastors of Kootenai County Episode 07

Co-hosts Dan and Dawna Wilson

Episode seven in a series of podcasts covering the Power Player Pastors of Kootenai County.

“It’s obvious that local media refuses to publish facts surrounding Sheriff Bob Norris and his associates. We made a bold move to publish our research including facts and evidence regarding Norris’s history, his inconsistencies, and his failed policies and programs here in Kootenai County. That’s not mudslinging. It’s truthslinging and if you don’t like it, I don’t care.”

For a year Dan Wilson ran in the race for Kootenai County Sheriff and while the numbers were not on his side, he is still the people’s sheriff. People from all over this county, the region, and nationally, have been inspired by the message of Liberty Without Compromise and have been inspired by a man who has been willing to fight fire with fire. AND there is unfinished business.

We are going in-depth to uncover what’s going on in the largest most influential churches in Coeur d’Alene. Have these pastors crossed political lines? Are they politically involved where they shouldn’t be and in violation of their 501c3 non-profit status? Are they king-makers? Who is advising them? Anyone looking for political power and control in Kootenai County knew that controlling the church was a must and it appears they have done just that.

As part of this series verbatim transcripts are read revealing that a former DHS agent played a primary role in the meeting with a local pastor and one of his parishioners who had concerns regarding the sheriff’s race in Kootenai County. This same former federal agent has local, ties to the church, the GOP, resiliency groups and the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office. The former fed functions as a red herring in the conversation, talking about irrelevant facts to avoid addressing the parishioner’s main points. The red herring manipulation tactic is designed to distract a person from the core issue by bringing up unrelated information, making it harder to focus on the real topic at hand. This type of manipulation is used to create distraction and divert attention away from the critical point of discussion. It is also used to misdirect by introducing what seems to be important but irrelevant information. The former fed dominates all throughout the meeting by manipulating and attempting to mislead the parishioner.

In this episode, we dive further into this pastor’s political involvement despite his insistence he knows little about local politics. As the dialogue unfolds the pastor shares with the parishioner rumors that he’s heard regarding Dan Wilson’s personal life. The parishioner advocates for Wilson and sets the record straight regarding Wilson’s Christian faith. Dan and Dawna go on to share their personal story, shooting down the false rumors regarding their relationship.

The transcripts show that the lies and propaganda being spread about Wilson, originated from this pastor and his political advisor, a former federal agent. The attacks on Dan Wilson that gained momentum through his campaign were promulgated from members of this same church who sit on a political advisory committee with the pastor.

The pastor accuses Wilson of doing nothing but mudslinging in his campaign while the Wilson’s provide a counterargument to the mudslinging accusations. As Dan Wilson researched Sheriff Bob Norris, his disability retirement from LASD, and his crooked helicopter program, he published his findings on his website and social media. Wilson says, “It’s obvious that local media refuses to publish facts surrounding Sheriff Bob Norris and his associates. We made a bold move to publish our research including facts and evidence regarding Norris’s history, his inconsistencies, and his failed policies and programs here in Kootenai County. That’s not mudslinging. It’s truthslinging and if you don’t like it, I don’t care.”