House Speaker Lawerence Denney, left, and Majority Leader Mike Moyle, ceenter, have contributed to a political action committee seeking to unseat six fellow Republicans, including Majority Caucus Chairman Ken Roberts. right. Groundwork is being done by at least four interconnected PACs led by Lou Esposito, Denney’s appointee to the first 2011 redistricting commission. Esposito operates Spartac, a political consulting firm. He also is coordinating with a fifth PAC, Idaho Chooses Life, led by his friend David Ripley. Idaho Chooses Life is targeting some of the same candidates as Esposito’s PACs. The PACs are sending direct mail, identifying voters and turning out the vote. Last week, a flier from the Free Enterprise PAC blasted Roberts — the No. 4 Republican in the House — for supporting fuel-tax increases in 2009 and for this year’s failed bill to allow Boise County commissioners to raise property taxes to pay a legal judgment without a vote of the people. A subsequent bill that became law requires a popular vote and is on the May 15 ballot, as are the legislators/Dan Popkey, Idaho Statesman. More here.

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