Former GOP state Rep. Jana Kemp has filed to run for governor of Idaho in 2010 as an independent. Kemp, who served a single term in the state House from 2004 to 2006, was an active and outspoken lawmaker who staked out moderate positions. "A…
There was a time when then-Gov. Dirk Kempthorne told a joint session of the Legislature, in his State of the State speech, that he wanted them to pass a constitutional amendment to lower the two-thirds supermajority now required to pass a school construction bond -…
Former Democratic state Sen. David Langhorst of Boise has been appointed to the Idaho Tax Commission by Gov. Butch Otter, to replace Democratic Tax Commissioner Colleen Grant of Fruitland. Langhorst was assistant minority leader in the Senate in 2008 when he left the Legislature for…
Politico's Michael Falcone has an article out today on "Capitol Hell: The worst states to govern," which tags California first as the worst spot to be governor today, with its fiscal and political turmoil. New York, Arizona, New Jersey and Michigan also made the list,…
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