For 20 years, Greg Strimple was a fixture in the Republican Party’s New York-Washington campaign machine and also worked for corporate clients such as AARP, AT&T, Fox, GE and the NFL. By 2009, he had four young children and had spent all but 89 days of the year away from home. “I needed to create some better life balance,” said Strimple, who moved his family to Boise in 2010. He said he and his wife, Kari, a stay-at-home-mom, used a Venn diagram to pick the city. Their intersecting sets: the West, good public schools, healthy economy, modest taxes, lower cost of living, easy airport access, good weather and fly fishing. “When you start doing that, quickly it narrows to Boise,” said Strimple, 45/Dan Popkey, Idaho Statesman. More here. (AP photo: Mitt Romney hugs a supporter after speaking about the tragic mass shooting at a movie theater in Colorado during a campaign event in Bow, N.H., today)

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