Now with the formalities out of the way, we thought we should write you a letter so…..
Dear Tina L. Nigrelli Kunishige,
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Politics! Now, seriously, can we talk?
We started hearing rumors of “Tiny Tina”, the girl with the big gun who had aspirations of being Kootenai County Sheriff. Much to our surprise, we discovered they weren’t rumors, “Tiny Tina” is you and apparently you’re serious about running for Sheriff.
Now don’t get us wrong, we’re very open to giving anyone a chance to “come to the dance”, in Kootenai County. And, as Conservatives, we love to see new faces that might bring something to the table to help foster Liberty in our beautiful Kootenai County. But Sweetie, as far as we can tell, you ain’t one of us! Why you ask? Well, we’ll get to that, but the purpose of this letter is to set a few facts straight, ask you some questions, make some suggestions and generally, just open the door to public discussion about…well…YOU!
So, let’s get started…
Tina, here’s part of the problem…you portray this face…
But here’s what we’re starting to see!
You’re applying for a position in a relatively exclusive club. That club is proud of its members and doesn’t let just anyone in. You are asking us to hold you in the same esteem as some fine Conservative women. Women like Senator Mary Sousa, State Rep. Kathy Sims and former Commissioner Jai Nelson.
These are strong, honest, hardworking, principled, women, who are an asset to our Republican Party, but most of all, they are competent, qualified women who, through their life experience, education and careers have proven that they have what it takes to give value to the voters who put them in office.
Sorry, girl, you ain’t no Kathy Sims, Jai Nelson or Mary Sousa! What do you bring to the party? What qualifications, education and experience do you have that would qualify you, not only to be Sheriff, but to join the ranks of these fine principled conservative public servants, who also happen to be women?????? Conspiring minds want to know!
So, Tiny Tina…This Is Your Life…or some of it anyway
You graduated from Sonora High School (California) in 1990. Congratulations, we all graduated from High School too! We can presume that prior to graduation, you did the typical childhood thing; likely none of it gave you any training, skill or education that would prepare you to keep the peace as High Sheriff!
1990 to 2015 is 25 years Tina. But let’s just concentrate on 1990 to 1999, shall we? We can find no record of, nor do you claim, publicly at least, that you have any college or vocational training that would qualify you to serve as Sheriff. Perhaps you were just a housewife and mother? Nothing wrong with that! Still, we have this yearning to know just what you were doing for the nine years after high school! Perhaps you could post it on your Facebook page? Tina, we just can’t imagine that you would think these weren’t important issues to us. As far as we can tell, your post High School years were spent doing…well…nothing! Tell us we’re wrong Tina! We’d love to be wrong. So, as far as preparing yourself to be Sheriff the sum total of your training and education until 1999 was ZILCH!
And then what? Well, we know that from 1999 to 2003 you owned and operated a business in Delhi California called “Mid Valley Chimney Service, LLC”. We don’t have the public information back on that company, yet, but apparently despite the fact you were the owner of the company and ran it, it didn’t fare well and is now defunct. Would “failed” be fair? Now, don’t feel bad. Lot’s of folk’s first business fail. Nothing to be ashamed of, but how does that qualify you to be Sheriff?
There’s a little fuzzy patch between 2003, when your Chimney Sweep venture ended and 2006, when you owned a company called “American Reflections, LLC” which you claim did “Quilting Machine Rentals, classes” and that you were a professional “quilter”. Interesting, Tina, it really is, but again, just how does that qualify you to be Sheriff? (Oh, by the way Tina, why do you say you started in 2006 when the Secretary of State Office shows you started American Reflections in 2007 and dissolved it in 2008?)
Now, as luck would have it, that venture didn’t fare well either. We know that despite the exciting world of professional quilting, you and apparently your husband dabbled in the fast passed world of EBay trading! Unfortunately for you, that wasn’t so lucrative. Judging by the number of law suits you filed in Kootenai County against “customers “ you spent a lot of time suing folks rather than making money-reselling stuff you found on EBay.
Sadly, we see that in 2008 you dissolved American Reflections due to your “deteriorating…health”. Sorry to hear it Tina, really we are, but again we have to ask, how does a failed quilting, EBay trading business qualify you to be Sheriff? Please, if we’re missing something let us know! And while we’re at it, while your health is a personal matter, if you weren’t healthy enough to run a small business, how do we know you can handle the physically demanding job of being Sheriff???
Moving on and speaking of suing folks, we were quite surprised to see how litigious you and your husband are. Here are just a few of the Kootenai County case numbers you were involved in: CV-2008-4825, CV-2007-8630, CV-2007-40, CV-2014-1932, CV-2012-705, CV-2006-8469 and CV-2012-7745. Wow, that’s not even all of them.
Now Tina, we have to tell you that of all these cases, the one that concerned us the most was the last CV-2012-7745. When we first heard about it we thought it was a joke. We asked the folks who told us about it if they had been in WA smoking some recreational or something, but lo and behold we saw if for our selves!
In October of 2012 you and your husband, Christopher, actually sued Coeur d’Alene Press Reporter Alicia Warren for $5000 for KNOCKING ON YOUR DOOR! Are you kidding us???? Are you serious????? And you want to be Sheriff????? Somebody knocks on your door and you sue them!!!!! But it gets worse….get this!!!! Witness Shawn Gust, a Cd’A Press Photographer and Alecia Warren’s “partner in crime”, testified in court that your husband actually said to them, as they were leaving, “Your lucky you weren’t shot”! (Listen folks, as nutty as this sounds you can read it for yourself in the public record from the suit that Tina filed. It’s at the courthouse)
Now, how much did the Judge award you for the egregious offense of knocking on your door????? Absolutely NOTHING! (Seriously Tina? You Sheriff?)
The hypocrisy of it all was not lost on us. You parade around town with that silly looking gun on your hip demanding that people allow you on their property with it whether they like it or not and you SUE SOMEBODY FOR TRESSPASS FOR KNOCKING ON YOUR DOOR! Sorry Tina, that’s just NUTS!
And while we’re on the subject of lawsuits, we couldn’t help noticing that you had some financial setbacks in your life. Two of the suits we reviewed were against you as a Defendant. One company sued you for $11,476.00 and another for $21,353.29. Now that alone wouldn’t preclude you from being Sheriff, but it looks to us (our opinion) that it’s just another hurdle in a history of hurdles, that has kept you from obtaining a lick of education, training or experience that would warrant us even thinking about taking you serious as a Conservative, Republican candidate for Sheriff!
By the way, we’re glad to see that you’re financial woe’s are apparently behind you. Judging from how proud you are of this shiny new, and very yellow, car you just purchased, you must be doing just fine on the financial side of life! Maybe it’s all those “machine guns” you are selling? Are they selling like “hot cakes”? (How come your Face book page says you’re retired but you’ve been telling lots of us that you are a Machine Gun Manufacturer?
Come on now Tina, just between us girls (well some of us are) just exactly how many machine guns have you sold since you opened your company in 2014? Mil Spec Armory, LLC, created at 8:40AM on April 10th, 2014. Wow, you’ve been busy – Quilting, Dog Training, Suing Reporters and who knows what else. Hey, by the way, where can we view your web site?
And finally, remember we mentioned those very qualified women who made the cut? Sousa, Sims, Nelson? Another thing they all have in common is they didn’t have to resort to lying about their opponents to win. They won because they were competent, qualified and classy! Well, we think you’re a bit short in the class department. How so? We read your little interview in the Spokesman Review about your running for Sheriff. You were attending a Republican Women’s function and you said that you were qualified to be Sheriff because you were not a “lawyer” or a member of the “Republican Liberty Caucus”. Well Tina, that was a not so veiled jab at John Green. Apparently, you don’t like Mr. Green much and we now know why!
You told a lot of us that you have “spoken” to John Green and that you couldn’t support him for Sheriff because he was “not for the Constitution”. Well we asked Mr. Green where you might have gotten that silly idea. Here’s his reply:
“Dear “Chester”,
I have never had a conversation with Tina Kunishige. The extent of my communication with her has been to say hello or goodbye at various functions.
However, she did write to me some time ago and ask me to support her campaign for Sheriff and in return she would support me in running for County Prosecutor.
Of course, I declined. I have no desire to run against Barry McHugh and in any event I am not licensed to practice law in Idaho. Furthermore, as far as I can tell, Mrs. Kunishige has no education; experience or training that would qualify her for such an important position. Sheriff Wolfinger is eminently more qualified than she and I cannot support him.
I hope this helps. Yes, you may make my comments public.
Cordially,
John Green
Candidate for Sheriff 2016”
Tina, really!!!!! You thought he’d back out and support you!!!! Calling Sonny the Coco Puff Cuckoo! (Yes Tina, that’s where that came from.)
So Tina, consider this letter and proceed accordingly. We’ve begun an investigation into the Real Tina Kunishige, and we’re planning on making all findings public. This is too important an issue and political race, at too critical a time to let some one like you come in and make a joke saying you are capable of protecting our life, liberty and property.
Tina, you should stop the silliness! Or at least grow a beard and become a lawyer. Then you might be qualified!
Yer Pal, (We’re guessing, not so much!)
Chester
P.S. DogTown CDA, LLC? Really?