In his weekly Cheers & Jeers column, Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune gives Jeer ... to Idaho Republican Party Chairman Steve Yates (pictured): "He says it's no big deal that his candidate for Idaho state schools superintendent, Sherri Ybarra, got caught plagiarizing. An entire section from Democratic candidate Jana Jones' website - word for word and with identical punctuation - wound up on Ybarra's webpage. And there it remained for months until Idaho Education News' Clark Corbin exposed it. "This is plain, vanilla prose," Yates told Kimberlee Kruesi of The Associated Press. Ybarra didn't steal Jones' policies, just her introductory statement. Jones seems to be seeking "an expansive accusation of plagiarism." Is the leader of the Republican Party telling Idaho's school children that plagiarism is OK as long as it's the "vanilla prose" variety? Would he be equally forgiving to Democrats? Full Cheers & Jeers column here.

Question: Are you as forgiving as Idaho GOP Chairman Steve Yates toward possible plagiarism found on Republican superintendent candidate Sherri Ybarra's campaign site?