Lewiston's newly elected city council has every reason to begin moving toward banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The voters spoke. They backed three councilors who pledged to move toward enacting such an ordinance. Councilors-elect Mike Collins and Jesse Maldonado endorsed passing a measure outright during an Oct. 22 League of Women Voters candidate forum. Although Councilor-elect Bob Blakey told the same forum he opposed the concept, he later told the Tribune's Joel Mills he would support outgoing Mayor Kevin Poole's suggestion of assigning a revived human rights commission with the task of building the case for a local law. "I botched it," Blakey told Mills. "That's not who I am. There are hostile people toward the gay population in Lewiston, but I'm not one of them"/Marty Trillhaase, Lewiston Tribune. More here.

Question: Do you think the Idaho Legislature will address this issue, now that the biggest towns in the state have?