Oopsy. Ken Roberts' congressional campaign sent out a press release first thing this morning noting that Roberts, R-Donnelly, the current House majority caucus chairman who's running for the 1st District congressional seat, has now been endorsed by 30 legislators from the 1st District. The release included a list of the representatives and senators, but there was an oddity: Among the senators listed were Carlos Bilbao, Judy Boyle, Stephen Hartgen and Dick Harwood. They all serve in the House, not the Senate. Two and a half hours later, a corrected version went out with the correct split between representatives (25) and senators (5). "We had them all in one list and then somebody said, 'Oh, let's splice 'em into senators and representatives,'" explained Roberts campaign manager Kevin McGowan. "It was me working with some volunteers. ... Somebody worked on it and I sent it out and I went, 'Oh, no, we sent the wrong version.'"

Roberts and Vaughn Ward are facing off in the GOP race for a shot at challenging Democratic 1st District Congressman Walt Minnick. As the race begins to take shape, Roberts has been announcing legislative backers, including his campaign chairman, House Speaker Lawerence Denney, and Ward has scheduled his own town hall meeting on health care reform for Sept. 1 from 6-8 p.m. at the Nampa Civic Center; Minnick has held several town hall meetings on the issue around the district. Here are links to the two rivals' campaign websites: www.robertsforidaho.com  and www.vaughnward.com

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