Wayne Hoffman Idaho has the most conservative House of Representatives it has ever seen. That is not the doing of House Speaker Scott Bedke. Bedke hasn’t changed at all, clocking in at 66% right now on the Idaho Freedom Index. What’s different is the makeup of the rest of the Republicans serving in the state House of Representatives, which is behaving exactly as I predicted following the May 2020 primary. My expectation then was that Idahoans had elected the most conservative House of Representatives in the state’s entire history. When given an option, voters tended to select the candidate who promised to be more conservative than their opposition. As of today, out of a 70-member House, 42 members have scored more than 70% on the Idaho Freedom Index. Last year, which was also a pretty good year for conservatives in the House, saw 30 members score 70% or better. More dramatic is the way in which the House has attacked spending: As of today, 26 House members have scored higher than