James Bond: What’s Nonini Doing?

James Bond: Bob Nonini — a great guy — is dabbling in the anti-abortion legislation area, according to Betsy’s Blog. It makes me nervous, because Bob is no Bill Sali or, for that matter, a single-interest-type politician. At least, the Bob Nonini I know is not that way. Anyway, this makes me wonder: Is Bob trying to expand his name I.D. and build up some goodwill with the more socially conservative voters in western Ada County, Canyon County, and environs? Put bluntly, is Bob Nonini laying the groundwork for a primary challenge in 2008 against Bill Sali?

DFO: I was wondering the same thing, 007. Nonini didn’t strike me as a social conservative, prior to this legislation. Obviously, to take out Sali in the 1st District, you have to burnish your credentials with social conservatives. Nonini will always have that scrape with drug laws in the 1980s to live down. But this bill and the one from 2006 targetting the Lake City High gay club should go a long ways toward helping conservatives forget and forgive the past.