Idaho Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch have indicated they’ll vote in favor of proceeding to consider a controversial GOP health care bill when it comes up for a vote in the Senate on Tuesday; here are their full statements: Crapo’s communications director, Lindsay Nothern,…
North Idaho Rep. Eric Redman, R-Athol, has announced that he won’t seek re-election after his current term ends next year. “I’m going to term-limit myself,” said Redman, who’s in his second two-year term. “I would be 73 in my third term, and I just feel that’s plenty old...
Jonathan Parker will be the next Idaho Republican Party chairman after a vote Saturday. Elected by secret ballot where voters scribbled down a candidate’s first name, Parker – the party’s former executive director – could not attend the GOP general session on Saturday because he was called away Friday on an urgent family matter.
In my Sunday column: Idaho's distinction for lacking financial disclosure laws, now that we're one of just two states without them; Otter on grocery tax decision; the money race for 1st CD; and Yates launches bid for lieutenant governor, joining crowded race...
With 10 months to go until the Idaho gubernatorial election, the race’s three Republican candidates answered a series of business-centric questions Friday during a forum held at the state GOP’s summer meeting. Convened by the local business community, the intent of the forum was to clarify where each candidate stood on issues...
At the Idaho GOP’s summer central committee meeting over the weekend in Coeur d’Alene, a proposal from Doyle Beck and former state Rep. Janice McGeachin, R-Idaho Falls, to bring back the party’s former requirement that all Republican candidates declare their commitment to upholding every plank…