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BOISE (Idaho Statesman) — Senate President Pro Tem Chuck Winder, a Boise Republican, spoke out against the Idaho Freedom Foundation on Wednesday, calling the think tank’s influence “one of the biggest threats” Idaho has to its democracy. During a virtual forum for legislative leaders held by the City Club of Boise, four lawmakers addressed the […]
Idaho groups form to fight far-right extremism Clark Corbin, Idaho Capital Sun Share This Ammon Bundy is dragged and then carried from the Idaho Senate Chambers gallery by Idaho State Police after returning to the Idaho Statehouse on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020 in Boise. Officers cited a statute before taking Bundy into custody a day after being arrested for refusing to leave a committee meeting. | Darin Oswald, Idaho Statesman Lifelong Republican Jennifer Ellis almost doesn’t even recognize her own political party when she looks at some of Idaho’s far-right legislators that dominated the a...
Driving past the ball fields near my house the other evening, I experienced waves of nostalgia, the stabby kind, the âaw, gee, shucksâ heartwarming kind, worthy of a Hallmark Channel Movie. You know for certain springâs arrived when the daffodils push themselves out of the hard, cold earth, … More Headlines
The Lewiston Tribune The Idaho Legislature may not go home for weeks, but already, the session’s prize for blatant hypocrisy has been claimed. And this year, that distinction goes to the Idaho Freedom Foundation. Last week, the IFF successfully called for defeating the Idaho Division of Welfare’s annual budget. Included within that budget - and the source of IFF’s ire - was federal coronavirus relief for the state’s struggling child care operators. The idea behind this aid - contained within the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act signed by former President...
Dear Members of Congress, We, the undersigned organizations representing millions of Americans nationwide highly concerned by our country’s unsustainable fiscal trajectory, write in support of the Maximizing America’s Prosperity (MAP) Act, to be introduced by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.). As we stare down a mounting national debt of over $28 trillion, the MAP Act presents a long-term solution to our ever-worsening spending patterns by implementing a Swiss-style debt brake that would prevent large budget deficits and increased national debt. Since the introductio...