In his Idaho Politics Weekly column, Chuck Malloy comments:

"Rep. Kelley Packer’s story might seem to be a bit corny, but it explains why this mother of four from McCammon, a town of about 800 people near Pocatello, thinks she has a chance to be Idaho’s next lieutenant governor.

"There’s nothing “small town” about Packer’s thinking, and that’s something she learned from her parents -- mother Charlyne Sutton, who lives in Pocatello, and her father, the late Dr. Ernest Sutton, a dentist who thought his kids could better learn the values of hard work by living on a dairy farm. Packer knows about hard work, which has come with operating several businesses in her adult life. Along the way, she learned from her parents the value of self-confidence, which has been helpful in her political life." More here.