‘Get the flock out of here’
Click below to read my full story from today’s Spokesman-Review on the fight over the personal property tax break that’s dominating the final days of this year’s legislative session. Meanwhile, Statehouse reporters have been wearing ugly ties for the past week and a half as a sign that it’s time for the session to end (the thinking being that lawmakers will be so disgusted by the unattractive neckwear that they'll just want to leave). Late yesterday, Sen. Jeff Siddoway, R-Terreton, promised to deliver one of his apparently hideous “sheep ties” to the press corps to aid in that effort, “so we can get the flock out of here.”