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Labrador conducts Nampa townhall

Labrador Town Hall U.S. Congressman Raul Labrador talks during a town hall at Meridian Middle School in Meridian, Idaho, Wednesday, April 19, 2017. Labrador is holding a town hall, the first of the state's congressional delegation to do so since the November election. (Kyle Green/Idaho Statesman via AP)
Labrador Town Hall U.S. Congressman Raul Labrador talks during a town hall at Meridian Middle School in Meridian, Idaho, Wednesday, April 19, 2017. Labrador is holding a town hall, the first of the state's congressional delegation to do so since the November election. (Kyle Green/Idaho Statesman via AP)

1st District GOP Rep. Raul Labrador’s second town-hall meeting in two weeks, held last night in Nampa, drew a crowd of about 350, and health care issues dominated the questions. Labrador expressed support for a border wall on the Mexican border, saying, “I am for the wall,” while also calling for changes to the immigration system combined with a high level of enforcement; he repeated his comment from the previous town-hall meeting that he doesn’t believe health care is a right; and he again spoke out against funding Planned Parenthood, displaying a map showing the three Planned Parenthood clinics in Idaho and another showing federally qualified health clinics around the state, which he said should receive the funding instead/Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise. More here.



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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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