Lake County commissioner slams Polson Police chief's book

What’s typically a cordial monthly meeting between city and county government officials collapsed last Tuesday afternoon, after Lake County Commissioner Gale Decker opened the session which he introduced as “a hearing” – by lambasting a book recently published by Polson Police Chief George Simpson.

Simpson, who wrote and published the book titled “An Odyssey of the Flathead Indian Reservation and Public Law 280” as a private citizen, was not on hand for Decker’s litany of perceived falsehoods.

City manager Ed Meece was there, however, with five staff members. After listening to Decker for several minutes, Meece said, “Commissioner Decker, can I interrupt?”