Woodings rips Denny over attorney hire

Rep. Holli Woodings, D-Boise, is ripping her GOP opponent in the Secretary of State’s race, Lawerence Denney, for hiring a private attorney with public funds to represent the Legislature’s Federal Lands Interim Committee, after he and co-chair Sen. Chuck Winder didn’t like the legal advice they got from the Idaho Attorney General’s office on the chances for getting federal public lands transferred to the state. “Without consulting other committee members, Winder and Denney hired a private attorney who will be paid $41,000 in taxpayer dollars,” Woodings writes. “The other committee members learned of this decision only after Sen. Winder disclosed the hiring to Montana legislators.” That disclosure is detailed in an AP story here .

What do you think of the decision to hire a private attorney in this case?