Coeur D'Alene City Councilman Makes Excuses, Defends Drag Show at Local Park

CDA Councilman Dan Gookin defended the drag show,
denied the perversion that took place

The Coeur D’Alene, Idaho City Council faced a much justified firestorm of outrage earlier this year.

In June 2022, the perverted hate group Northern Idaho Pride Alliance sponsored and pushed through a PRIDE event at Coeur D’Alene Park. It was an outrageous, vile, and incendiary program that brought out protesters throughout the state, throughout the region!

The performances were so vile, that one of them, a Satanic ritual “unbaptism” program, was cancelled. Sadly, the rest of the groomer operation took place. Massive protests ensued, including many suspected undercover feds. More to the city’s shame, the police arrested a street preacher who was peacefully protesting!

I then found this article, exposing (no pun intended) something egregiously bad at the already disgusting PRIDE event:

I wrote to the Coeur D’Alene City Council:

You have an obligation to stop these PRIDE displays at the city park. There is NO First Amendment protections for any adult to flash his genitalia to an audience. NONE!

I am appalled that the event even took place as scheduled. The city is well within its rights–and its responsibilities–to deny a permit to the Norther Idaho Pride Coalition in the future.

WATCH: Drag Queen Pulls Out His Penis In Front Of Kids At ‘Family Friendly Drag Show’

At the North Idaho Pride Alliance’s “Pride in the Park” celebration in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, a male drag performer has been accused of showing his genitalia to

There is absolutely NOTHING family-friendly about drag queens being around children. There is nothing acceptable about this, and you have no right to allow such filth to be present in any public display on city property.

Who authorized this horrific event? Who allowed this travesty to take place?

And why hasn’t any serious action been taken to ensure that it never happens again?!

One of the city councilmembers, Dan Gookin (who started the … For Dummies books), responded to my email:

Mr. Schaper,

I was at the Pride event with our police. They did not see anyone flash genitalia at any time. If it would have happened, that person would have been arrested. For someone to say otherwise, is to doubt our police department. It didn’t happen.

Best,

DAN

I find it particularly despicable when elected officials hide behind police officers to justify their insouciance or their flippant indifference to sexual perversion being put on full display for children. “Well, the cops didn’t see it, so that means it didn’t happen …”

Give me a break.

I wrote back to Dan Gookin:

Dan:

I was born at night, not last night.

I have just showed you the photos below from the report, which clearly indicates that one of those perverted performers flashed his genitalia.

I am absolutely appalled that you are defending the PRIDE performances at Coeur D’Alene park. Furthermore, to hide behind the police department generally or in particular is just loathsome.

The police did NOT do a good job protecting the perimeter, by the way. The fact that a Bible preacher was arrested instead of these perverted adults grooming children is an absolute testimony to the failure of the police department’s leadership–and the city’s leadership, including yourself.

That entire PRIDE event should have never taken place. There is no First Amendment right to corrupt minors or undermine the public square with pornography and smut.

I am going to make your flippant, arrogant remarks below public for the entire Kootenai County community to see.

You need to be removed from office. Your arrogant indifference harms children and adults alike.

Here’s the offending Drag Queen, in case you missed it:

LibsofTikTok exposed this salacious scene on Twitter, and the tweet ended up getting flagged and taken down. If Twitter stepped into to censor this scene, then surely the city council and police should have done something.

Instead, the cops were busy arrested street preachers.

But what is it with this Gookin guy, anyway?

Here’s a little more information about Dan Gookin.

Gookin has been active in community theater and became the artistic director of Lake City Playhouse in 1997. He was elected to a seat in the Coeur d’Alene City Council in November 2011. He was a nominee for the Idaho Senate and the 2004 Libertarian nominee for the Coeur D’Alene city council.So, Gookin is a Libertarian. That explains a lot of things.

Libertarians are unwitting (or rather, witting) supporters of the regresive Left and other abject socialists. For the past 8 years, the Libertarian Party of the United States has supported homosexuality, transgenderism, Black Lives Matter, and the national party even complied with lockdown orders and mask mandates! Not very liberty-based, certainly.

And now, one of their few elected officials is on board with Drag Queens grooming kids in a public park, and he is more than happy to turn a blind eye to one of many brazen perverts flashing his private parts to the crowd.

Gookin has to go, and so does the rest of the city council for not wanting to stop this filthy, vile PRIDE event.

Contact the CDA City Council, and demand that they take action to stop these abusive programs in the future:

Coeur D’Alene City Council

City of Coeur d’Alene

710 E. Mullan Ave

Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814

Phone: 208.769.2300

Mayor Jim Hammond

jhammond@cdaid.org

Councilmember Dan Gookin

dgookin@cdaid.org

Councilmember Amy Evans