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Senator: Beware NIdaho ‘Whack Jobs’

Sen. Pam Roach, R-Auburn, during a hearing on an encounter with a constituent suggests why public officials might want their addresses off their required financial statements: “We live out in the boonies. . .I was alone and somebody drives up into the driveway. This guy looked like a hoarder or he was from some place in – excuse me, I love Idaho – from Northern Idaho or something. . . This guy was a whack job. Right there. Because he knew where I lived.” It’s not clear how many whack jobs troll the financial statements for legislators’ addresses. But one wonders how Roach would have described him if she didn’t love Idaho/Jim Camden, Spin Control. (AP file photo: State Republican Sen. Pam Roach, back left, listens to a resolution on the Senate floor honoring the Seattle Seahawks in Olympia, Wash., last Friday)

Question: Does Sen. Roach love of us in North Idaho -- or not?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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