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Eye On Boise archive for Sept. 1, 2009

TUESDAY, SEPT. 1, 2009

First Idaho wolf reported shot by hunter 

Robert Millage, a real estate agent from Kamiah, shot the first wolf in Idaho's wolf hunt today, according to state officials. Millage, who bagged an adult female gray wolf from 25 yards away in the mountains near the Lochsa River, told the Associated Press, “I…

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Semanko statement on Rammell 

On Friday, after GOP gubernatorial candidate Rex Rammell began making comments critical of Idaho GOP leaders - comments he repeated today - as he defended his earlier joke about shooting the president, Idaho Republican Party Chairman Norm Semanko issued this statement:"Yesterday, the Idaho Republican Party…

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Rex Rammell, GOP candidate for governor of Idaho, refuses to apologize for remarks about getting a hunting tag to hunt for President Obama, during a press conference in Boise on Tuesday. At left is NPR reporter Don Wimberly. (Betsy Russell / The Spokesman-Review)

Defiant Rammell refuses to apologize 

A defiant Rex Rammell refused to apologize today for his joking remarks about buying hunting tags to shoot President Obama, and instead accused top Idaho Republican leaders of conspiring to sabotage his run for governor by strongly condemning his remarks. "They're trying to ruin my…

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