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Among the 21 lawmakers who debated Otter’s 7-cent fuel increase Thursday, telling words came from Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Eagle. Labrador is ambitious enough to enjoy talk about his running for Congress and represents a district crisscrossed by congested roads. But rather than silently cast a “no” vote, Labrador openly defied Otter and the coalition the governor has spent two years building. The 43-27 vote against the tax increase included a 28-24 defeat among Otter’s fellow Republicans and a 19-9 loss among lawmakers from the Treasure Valley, the region supposedly most sympathetic to higher taxes for roads/Dan Popkey, Idaho Statesman. More here.
Question: Why did the GOP & Treasurer Valley legislators abandon Otter on the road-fix issue?
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 March 20 at 12:07 p.m.
This was round one. Now he knows the lay of the land and its time to work a compromise.
JeanieSpokane on March 20 at 1:57 p.m.
The “Remarks at the funeral of my son” is beautiful and heart-wrenching.