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Political debates galore…
Political debates galore…
Batt endorses Labrador, cites Minnick’s ads
Batt endorses Labrador, cites Minnick’s ads
Idaho U.S. Senate race
Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo is seeking a third term in the U.S. Senate, after making history six years ago by running unopposed for his second term, drawing only a write-in challenger. This time, Crapo faces two longshot challengers, Democrat P. Tom Sullivan, of Tetonia, a first-time candidate, and Constitution Party candidate Randy Lynn Bergquist, of Fruitland.
Idaho 1st congressional race
Freshman Democratic Rep. Walt Minnick is being challenged this year by state representative Raul Labrador, R-Eagle, and two others, in one of Idaho’s most-watched election contests.
Idaho governor’s race
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter is seeking a second term in office at a time when the state is facing historic budget cuts and high unemployment, and after he’s failed twice to push through his major legislative initiative, to increase funding for the state’s roads and bridges.
Other statewide Idaho races
Other statewide races in Idaho.
Idaho House District 2B race
Rep. Dick Harwood, R-St. Maries, is among the Legislature’s most conservative voices, pushing legislation to tell the federal government to “back off” and to assert that the federal government can’t regulate in-state gun sales
Idaho House District 3B race
Idaho state Rep. Phil Hart, R-Athol, was unopposed in his bid for a fourth term until Hayden businessman Howard Griffiths, angered by Hart’s continuing tax problems, filed to run against him as a write-in.
Idaho Senate, District 4 race
Coeur d’Alene Sen. John Goedde is the chairman of the Senate Education Committee, and in his bid this year for a fourth term in the Senate, the Republican has drawn no Democratic challenger, but does face an independent and a Constitution Party candidate on the November ballot.
Idaho House District 4A race
Mike Bullard was pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Coeur d’Alene until he retired in 2009 after 35 years at the pulpit. Now he’s running for political office, challenging three-term Rep. Marge Chadderdon, R-Coeur d’Alene.
Idaho House District 4B race
An open legislative seat is up for grabs in Coeur d’Alene, with the retirement of four-term Rep. George Sayler, D-Coeur d’Alene; Democrat Paula Marano and Republican Kathy Sims are facing off for the seat.
Idaho House District 5A race
Rep. Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d’Alene, is the chairman of the House Education Committee, and he’s been in the thick of the debate over this year’s unprecedented cuts in public school funding – in fact, Nonini called for deeper cuts.
2010 Kootenai County coroner race
The race for a four-year term as county coroner pits the 26-year chief deputy coroner against a six-year deputy coroner, who has worked on a contract basis.
North Idaho College Board of Trustees races
Four people are running for two positions on the North Idaho College board of trustees.
Wash., Idaho voters cast ballots with local, national implications
Most voters across the Inland Northwest will have their ballots by this weekend for a Nov. 2 midterm election that will decide everything from control of the U.S. Congress to whether wealthy Washington residents will have to begin paying state income taxes. In Idaho, where most ballots are still cast at the polls on Election Day, voters will choose a governor and several other statewide leaders, as well as a new Idaho Legislature, where every seat is up for election. Several local offices, including a rare contested race for Kootenai County coroner, are on the ballot as well. This is the first year Idaho voters will be required to show photo ID at the polls.
Candidates get another day
Candidates get another day
‘This is Newt Gingrich…’
‘This is Newt Gingrich…’
Conservative Union backs Labrador, small-business federation backs Minnick
Conservative Union backs Labrador, small-business federation backs Minnick
Rep. Hart logged state land for home
BOISE – Idaho state Rep. Phil Hart stole timber from state land to build his log home in Athol in 1996, according to court documents, and still hasn’t paid a judgment against him for the theft. What’s more, the property Hart illegally logged is school endowment land, meaning the timber there is supposed to benefit Idaho’s public schools. Hart contended then – and still does today – that a loophole in state law allowed him, as a citizen, to cut and take the logs, totaling nearly 8,000 board feet of timber. But three court rulings found that argument not only wrong but unreasonable and “frivolous.”
GOP ad targeting Allred on taxes
BOISE – The Idaho Republican Party has launched an attack ad against Democratic candidate for governor Keith Allred, charging that he’d tax everything from child care to church bake sales, a claim Allred dubs a “wild distortion.” Norm Semanko, Idaho Republican Party chairman, said the new TV commercial, which is running statewide including in the Spokane TV market, is based on Allred’s statement at a debate in Twin Falls that everything is on the table when it comes to reviewing existing tax exemptions.