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Eye On Boise

‘It could really move fast’

Senators including Majority Leader Bart Davis, R-Idaho Falls, center, and Sen. Shirley McKague, R-Meridian, emerge from a closed-door caucus on Wednesday. (Betsy Russell / The Spokesman-Review)
Senators including Majority Leader Bart Davis, R-Idaho Falls, center, and Sen. Shirley McKague, R-Meridian, emerge from a closed-door caucus on Wednesday. (Betsy Russell / The Spokesman-Review)

Senate Republicans emerged from their closed-door caucus, and their leadership, plus the Senate finance and transportation committee chairmen, headed straight over to meet with Gov. Butch Otter, who's already been meeting with House GOP leaders. Senate Majority Leader Bart Davis said the governor's office called to request the meeting. Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Kate Kelly, D-Boise, warned her caucus, "We're really in a holding pattern. It could really move fast once the dam breaks. We're just waiting."



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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