Eye On Boise

They don’t mince words…

Posted by Betsy

April 30, 2010 2:54 p.m. • 6 comments

Here are some samples of what you’ll hear when candidates Vaughn Ward and Raul Labrador appear together on tonight’s “Idaho Reports” program on Idaho Public TV:

Ward: “It’s not about that my wife works in I.T., it’s that Fannie Mae was allowed to do certain things that shouldn’t have happened, and Congress backstopped them all the way.”

Labrador: “What I’ve learned is that if you’re willing to say lies about small things, you’re willing to say lies about big things.”

Ward: “I’m not lying to anybody, and I find offensive that others would say that. That doesn’t matter, that’s just noise in the campaign. What’s important here is accept responsibility, take corrective action and move forward.”

Labrador: “I’m actually an expert in immigration law, I understand what the problem is, it’s a huge issue, I know where it’s broken, I know how to fix it.”

Ward: “If you want to send somebody to Congress who’s going to go fight against this problem, why send someone who defends illegal aliens? I didn’t say it was wrong. I just said that you have a choice.”

The GOP primary ballot for the 1st Congressional District actually will have five names on it, but two, Allan Salzberg and Michael Chadwick, have withdrawn; the other, Harley Brown, is a frequent candidate for various offices who maintains he was called by God to become president of the United States. The winner of the Republican primary will face 1st District Democratic Congressman Walt Minnick in November.

Six comments on this post so far. Add yours!

WildWest on April 30 at 3:31 p.m.
Ask Labrador next time why he and so many Idaho republicans worked with known racist, birther and hate merchant Kris Kobach, who was in Idaho a few months back pushing racist forms of immigration onto the Idaho legislature.

Kobach is the attorney for FAIR that penned the racist Arizona law.

It all starts with false accusations of voter fraud. you’ve seen here with Moyle, he used that false rhetoric and could not identify and actual voter fraud in 100 years.

Idaho is on the hit parade to be one of the next to be lobbied in 2011 to discriminate using legislation, Labrador approves of that?

Labrador is an immigration law expert in his own mind, his facts are serious manipulated to fit his conservative rhetoric of fear the brown, which is his case is quite odd.
jmrusche on April 30 at 8:51 p.m.
I cannot believe that they both called for the removal of the direct election if US Senators. And stated that the 17th Amendment interfered with “states rights”. How many of us want the legislature to override our electoral choice?
Talk about radical.
ericn1300 on April 30 at 9:05 p.m.
So much for the old adage “cream rises to the top”. The republicans in the 1st Congressional district seem to be in a race to the bottom. Really now how much lower can you go with out closing the primaries?

I’m watching this race closely so I can vote for the one most likely to loose in November. Looks like a coin toss right now.
IdahoRed on May 02 at 11:03 a.m.
I just got to meet and hear Raul Labrador speak about a month ago and am hugely impressed.

Labrador is a true conservative, with genuine conservative principles and beliefs of limited government and fiscal and moral responsibility. He has a proven record in the Idaho Legislature and will sit down with any citizen in the state of Idaho and talk heart to heart and not pump out a bunch of campaign rhetoric.

Labrador (an imigrant himself) understands and supports the idea of front door imigration. Where people in search of freedom, hope and prosperity come to America for the right reasons and they come here the right way! Through the front door! Nobody I know has a problem with legal immigration… Everyone I know has a big problem with illegal imigration.

Labrador doesn’t tell people what they want to hear… Labrador tells people what he stands for everyday, all day. There is a big difference I(especially in an election year)
slfisher on May 02 at 12:26 p.m.
“Labrador doesn’t tell people what they want to hear.”

Can’t argue with you there.
State_of_Idiots on May 03 at 3:25 a.m.
OH, MY GOD!*#!*#

Candidates who are actually showing some “heated passion” in an Idaho campaign, without the restrictions of that oh-so-constraining Mormon underwear (Brand Label—”Born to be Mild”). What is this state coming to?

P.S. – to all you dumb asses who flunked geography: America is the 3rd largest nation on Planet Earth (look it up yourselves)…so, WHY DO WE NEED ANY MORE PEOPLE?