Fri., Oct. 14, 2016

Trillhaase: Heather’s goons gone wild

Idaho State Representative for District 1 Heather Scott, center waits for her turn to address the crowd during the candidates forum at Priest River Junior high school sponsored by Bonner County Republican Central Committee on Wednesday, May 4, 2016. (Kathy Plonka/SR file photo)

In his weekly Cheers & Jeers column, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune gives JEERS to ... state Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard:

JEERS ... to state Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard. Is there anybody who delights more in shooting off her mouth? In a brief two-year term, she has stoked the fires of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge standoff, tried to dismantle Idaho's child support enforcement system, and hysterically alleged a cover-up in a Twin Falls County child sexual abuse case.

But when someone else speaks up - and has the temerity to suggest Scott ought to sit out the next legislative session or five - this provocateur would rather not hear it.

Last summer, one of Scott's gun-toting goons threatened Democratic challenger Kate McAllister's 90-year-old mother-in-law while she was shopping at the Sandpoint Safeway store.

Then this month, Scott's thugs stalked, harassed and accosted a 21-year-old Brigham Young University-Idaho student who had signed up as a Democratic Party field organizer in Bonner and Boundary counties. It got so intense - Democrats say someone tracked him down to a rural home where he was staying and at 2 a.m. began photographing the house and his car's license plate - that the young man has been yanked out of northern Idaho for his own protection.

And what does Scott say about this? More here.

Posted Oct. 14, 2016, 8:29 a.m.

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Trillhaase: Heather’s goons gone wild

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