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Keith Allred is seen with his wife Christine answering questions during an interview with the Associate Press in Boise. (AP Photo/Charlie Litchfield)
Keith Allred formally announced his candidacy for governor as a Democrat this morning, at a rally in the Twin Falls High School gym, the same place he gave his first speech as a sixth-grader and where he spoke often when he was the school’s student body president. Allred had a surprise announcement: Joining former four-term Democratic Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus as honorary co-chairman of his campaign will be former state Sen. Laird Noh, R-Kimberly, the longtime Republican chairman of the Senate Resources Committee. Noh also served on the board of Allred’s nonpartisan citizen advocacy group, The Common Interest/Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise. More here.
Question: What do you make of respected former legislator Laird Noh co-chairing Keith Allred’s campaign?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Sisyphus on December 17 at 10:55 a.m.
I make of it that Walt Minnick has got to be the happiest Democrat in Idaho right now.
Phaedrus on December 17 at 10:57 a.m.
What Sis said. ;-)
Arpie on December 17 at 11:11 a.m.
I’ve always thought Noh is an uncommon statesman. Now that he is backing my candidate I think so even more. Allred is a game changer. Idaho needs to figure out how to play a new game. electing him is how we can do it.
Smacky on December 17 at 11:14 a.m.
And I thought that was just fog out there this morning. Turns out it was a lot of heavy breathing.
scootermom on December 17 at 11:54 a.m.
Noh is a stand up guy, who does not march in lockstep with the Republican party. Good for him.