IFF’s Billboard Bash Exchange Solons

The Idaho Freedom Foundation says it will put up more billboards like this one in Burley, criticizing local legislators’ votes on the state health insurance exchange.

Billboards bashing Idaho legislators for their votes on a state insurance exchange have begun popping up in their legislative districts. Idaho Freedom Foundation chief Wayne Hoffman says the signs are part of his group’s lobbying campaign to get Idaho’s exchange repealed in the legislative session that starts in January, but others say the effort appears aimed at Idaho’s upcoming 2014 elections, in which every seat in the Idaho Legislature will be on the ballot. “That looks a lot more like campaigning than lobbying to me,” said Jim Weatherby, Boise State University professor emeritus and a longtime observer of Idaho politics. “It’s not a traditional way of lobbying the Legislature to use billboards – in fact, I’m hard-pressed to give an example of that”/ Betsy Z. Russell , Eye on Boise. More here.

Question: Will these billboards sway you?