Jorgenson Rips ‘Untrue Claims’

Sen. Mike Jorgenson, R-Hayden Lake, chairman of the Idaho Indian Affairs Council, has put out a guest opinion on the flap over proposed legislation from the Coeur d’Alene Tribe regarding cross-deputization, after a three-year dispute between the tribe and the Benewah County Sheriff. “The purpose of this guest opinion is not to discuss the merits of the proposed legislation,” Jorgenson writes. “It is to address the inflammatory and patently untrue claims of its opponents now circulating.  Statements by groups such as the Idaho Eagle Forum and the North Idaho Citizens Alliance,  generally considered a radical Anti-Indian activist group, do a substantial injustice to Idaho Indian Tribes and are stoking unwarranted fears in local citizens”/ Betsy Russell , Eye On Boise. More here .

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