Spokane County Democrats abruptly adjourn convention after chairman falls ill

The Spokane County Democratic Party has abruptly postponed its county convention scheduled for Saturday, the day on which regional Democrats would have adopted their first official party platform since the pandemic.

It should be a moment of hope for the county Democratic Party, which lost all records of its most recently approved platform after a Grand Coulee man, Peter Yeager, set fire to the party headquarters in 2020, party chair Naida Spencer said Wednesday.

Spencer, who has been battling health problems for two weeks, was hospitalized Thursday, second vice chair Christin Crowder said in an interview Friday. On Friday morning, the convention was postponed to an unspecified date in September or October, according to the party’s website.