Editorial from Twin Falls Times-News:

Republicans in Boise like to reflect a unified front, but it's no big secret to anyone paying attention to the Statehouse that a far-right fringe group of legislators has been leading a mini insurgency against the moderates in leadership positions for years.

That usually quiet battle became much more public last week when Speaker of the House Scott Bedke, a Republican from Oakley, was accused of talking loudly about sex acts and young women during a committee hearing five years ago. Bedke is married, with children and grandchildren, and prides himself on integrity.

The allegation surfaced in an affidavit from the committee's secretary, now living in Colorado, who leaked it to a far-right website in Idaho. The woman claimed she came forward after seeing that Bedke had stripped Rep. Heather Scott of her committees; Scott was overheard saying that women advanced in the Legislature by performing sexual favors. More here.