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Eye On Boise archive for March 20, 2012

TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2012






Odd candidate behavior nothing new in Idaho... 

Idaho Statesman reporter Patrick Orr has a full story today on Cynthia Clinkingbeard, the 1st District congressional candidate who was arrested over the weekend after threatening Staples employees with a 9mm handgun. The former physician, whose medical license was revoked in 2005, was charged with…

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House back at 2:30, Senate at 3:15...

The House has recessed until 2:30; the House Ways & Means Committee will meet at 1:15 and consider a new bill from state Administration Director Teresa Luna regarding rules governing the Capitol Mall. Meanwhile, the Senate has recessed until 3:15 p.m., and tomorrow morning's Senate…

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Siddoway says odd ultrasound motion was ethics protest 

Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Sen. Jeff Siddoway's unconventional conflict-of-interest declaration during Monday's debate over an abortion ultrasound mandate was designed to protest an ethics investigation into his Senate colleague. Siddoway made a motion asking to be excused…

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Senate Assistant Minority Leader Les Bock, a lawyer, addresses the Senate Ethics Committee Tuesday on the minority's ethics complaint against Sen. Monty Pearce, R-New Plymouth. (Betsy Russell)

Ethics debate: A 'quid pro quo'?

Senate Assistant Minority Leader Les Bock, D-Boise, an attorney, though one who's no longer practicing, told the Senate Ethics Committee this morning that Senate Resources Chairman Monty Pearce's own declaration that he had a conflict of interest with HB 464, regarding oil and gas developing,…

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Senate Ethics Committee convenes on Tuesday morning to hear ethics complaint against Sen. Monty Pearce, R-New Plymouth. (Betsy Russell)

Ethics hearing: 'Divided loyalties'

The Senate Ethics Committee this morning has received a revised complaint from Senate minority leaders and a response from Sen. Monty Pearce, R-New Plymouth, to the ethics complaint against him. The Democrats' revised complaint adds some detail about "pecuniary interest," saying that Pearce's oil and…

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