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Grading Legislature: C Or Worse

A new poll conducted for the Idaho Politics Weekly newsletter published by Zion Bank asked Idahoans how they’d grade this year’s legislative session. The results: Just 3 percent gave lawmakers an A, and 16 percent handed them a B. Thirty percent – the largest single group – awarded a grade of C. Fourteen percent gave the session a D grade, and 10 percent an F. That means 54 percent thought lawmakers earned a C grade or below. In addition, 12 percent awarded an “incomplete” – the same grade Gov. Butch Otter said he’d give the session – and 14 percent weren’t sure; a special session is set for May 18 to address a crisis in the state’s child support enforcement system created when a bill died on a 9-8 vote in a House committee on the final day of the session/Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise. More here.

DFO: I think this Legislature was better than most other recent ones (although that isn't saying much). If Gov. Otter and the Legislature can fix the mess caused by the Neincompoops (Fort Boise's word, not Huckleberries') of the House Judiciary & Rules Committee, I'd give the Legislature a C-minus or D-plus. I've only given F's in recent years. What grade would you give the Legislature?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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