Chenoweth Launches Re-Election Campaign

U.S. Rep. Helen Chenoweth launched her re-election campaign Thursday, saying she wants to continue to shrink the size of government.

“We need to do away with most of the regulations that we are laboring under,” she told a crowd of supporters that packed closely into her cramped campaign office. “The wise, multiple use of our resources and property rights for Americans must begin to take a priority.”

Chenoweth, 58, is opposed in her re-election bid by Democrats Dan Williams, a Boise attorney and aide to former Gov. Cecil Andrus, and Matt Alan Lambert, a Murray resident.

Chenoweth has drawn national attention for her comments criticizing the Endangered Species Act, including her remark that white Anglo-Saxon males are an endangered species; her outspoken support of militia groups’ right to organize; and her proposed legislation to require federal lawenforcement agents to win a local sheriff’s permission before they can operate in a county.