Let this page be the first to relay the following message from Idaho Democrats to those Republicans who just filed suit in federal court to close their party's primary elections to all who haven't registered publicly as Republicans: Thank you, thank you, thank you. What the 72 plaintiffs in this lawsuit - 21 of them from north central Idaho - have done is invite every voter who does not care to be herded into a party corral, for all to see, to vote in the Democratic primary election, and stay there for the general election. No, these puritans of the right cannot prevent independents and unregistered Republican-leaning voters from voting for Republican candidates in the general election. But they certainly are telling those voters they aren't welcome in the Grand Old Party's new, smaller tent -- Jim Fisher/Lewiston Tribune.

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Question: Will Idaho Republicans suffer fallout from the attempt by 72 members, including Ron Vieselmeyer and Ruthie Johnson, to close party primaries?

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