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• Eye on Boise: Andrus Center’s new director brings statewide experience

  May 6, 2012 in Idaho on Page B3 BOISE – David Adler, a longtime political science professor and constitutional scholar at Idaho State University, has been named the new director of the Andrus Center for Public Policy at …

• Idaho GOP schedules first straw poll

  October 27, 2011 in Idaho on Page A1 BOISE – Idaho’s Republican Party has scheduled its first presidential straw poll for Jan. 6 in Boise, and it’s hoping to attract candidates to the Gem State to woo Republican … 1

• Stoking Idaho’s conservative fire

  August 7, 2011 in Idaho on Page A1 Conservatism is practically a religion in Idaho’s legislative District 3, the district that elected tax-protesting state Rep. Phil Hart four times and this year added two like-minded lawmakers he recruited … 77

• GOP move puts Idaho primary in doubt

  July 17, 2011 in Idaho on Page B7 Idaho’s Republican Party Central Committee, at its meeting in Moscow, Idaho, on Saturday, approved moving to a caucus system – like the Idaho Democrats’ – for its presidential delegate selection … 1

• Idaho GOP opts for caucus, drops presidential primary

  July 16, 2011 in Idaho MOSCOW, Idaho — Idaho Republican officials say they will hold the state party’s presidential caucus vote on Super Tuesday in March 2012, when a number of other states across the … 2

• Idaho GOP to consider dropping presidential primary

  July 15, 2011 in Idaho on Page A6 BOISE – Idaho Republicans have dropped a proposed rule change that would have let party committees screen candidates for primary elections and select just two for each office, but they’ll …

• Idaho GOP drops plan to vet primary candidates

  July 14, 2011 in Idaho Idaho Republicans have dropped a proposed rule change to let party committees screen candidates for primary elections and select just two for each office, but they’ll consider plenty of other …

• Public to pay for GOP suit

  April 8, 2011 in Idaho on Page A5 BOISE – Idaho lawmakers rushed through a bill to pay $100,000 to the Idaho Republican Party – to which 81 percent of them belong – in the final days of … 4

• Editorial: Closing vote in Idaho carries price for taxpayers

  April 6, 2011 in Opinion on Page A13 Idaho is going through the same challenges that Washington state faced when its independent-oriented election system was ruled unconstitutional by the courts. But instead of trying to preserve that independence, …

• Idaho’s open primary infringes on GOP, judge rules

    March 3, 2011 in Idaho on Page A1 BOISE – A federal judge on Wednesday declared Idaho’s open primary election system unconstitutional, ruling that it violates the right of the state’s Republican Party to limit primaries to members. … 3

• Eye on Boise: Campaigning begins for leadership elections

  November 14, 2010 in Idaho Voices on Page I1 BOISE – Now that the election is over, for state lawmakers, the elections are coming. That would be the leadership elections, set for early December when the state Legislature gathers …

• GOP argues for closed primary in Idaho

  October 14, 2010 in City, Idaho on Page A6 BOISE – The Idaho Republican Party finally got its chance Wednesday to make a case for scrapping the state’s open primary, which they say allows Democratic voters to unfairly influence … 1

• GOP ad targeting Allred on taxes

  October 10, 2010 in Idaho on Page B3 BOISE – The Idaho Republican Party has launched an attack ad against Democratic candidate for governor Keith Allred, charging that he’d tax everything from child care to church bake sales, …

• Idaho voters against repeal of 17th Amendment

  September 24, 2010 in Idaho on Page A1 BOISE – Idahoans are dead-set against handing over selection of U.S. senators to the state Legislature, and Idaho Republicans are even more against the idea than Democrats or the state … 6

• Republican Party redirects Labrador staffers

  August 26, 2010 in City, Idaho on Page A8 BOISE – U.S. House hopeful Raul Labrador hasn’t exactly gotten the help that the Idaho Republican Party promised in June when it announced the hiring of two full-time staffers to … 2

• New planks leave hole in platform’s center

  June 30, 2010 in City, Idaho on Page A5 Idaho just turned purple. Maybe you missed it, but the reddest state in the country marched into singularity over the weekend, when the state GOP adopted a platform that would …

• Editorial: In storm of moderates, Idaho GOP has pup tent

  June 30, 2010 in Opinion on Page A11 Ronald Reagan often invoked what came to be known as his 80 percent rule: “My 80 percent friend is not my 20 percent enemy.” Reagan’s big-tent instinct seems to be …

• Nonpartisan Idaho races get scrutiny

  November 8, 2009 in Idaho on Page B1 BOISE – Idaho’s elections last week were all officially nonpartisan city races, but there’s growing statewide debate about what role – if any – political parties should play in those …

• Idaho: Partisanship growing in local elections

  November 7, 2009 in News, Idaho Idaho’s elections last week were all officially non-partisan city races, but there’s growing statewide debate about what role - if any - political parties should play in those contests.

• Judge sets trial on Idaho primaries

  September 5, 2009 in Idaho on Page B3 BOISE – A federal judge had a message Friday for the Idaho Republican Party, which claims Idaho’s open primary election system violates its constitutional rights: Prove it. U.S. District Judge …

• Judge to Idaho GOP on ‘crossover’ voting in primaries: Prove it

  September 4, 2009 in Idaho A federal judge had a message Friday for the Idaho Republican Party, which claims Idaho’s open primary election system violates its constitutional rights: Prove it. 1

• New GOP chairman has his work cut out

  July 22, 2008 in Idaho on Page B1 BOISE – When Norm Semanko was a Lakeland High School grad applying to the University of Idaho, he got a perfect score on the math portion of the ACT – …