EOBoise: Another Denney Clarification

Lawerence Denney, the Republican candidate for Idaho secretary of state, last week backed off from statements he made in a debate suggesting he would do away with Idaho’s primary election. “I think you misunderstood what I said,” Denney told reporters during a live debate on Idaho Public TV last week against his opponent, state Rep. Holli Woodings, D-Boise. “Certainly I do believe that a primary election is not necessarily an election at all, it’s a nomination process, and it is a party nomination process, and I think the parties deserve to choose their own candidates.” A day earlier in a debate at the City Club of Boise, Denney said, “I think it’s important that Republicans nominate Republican candidates and that Democrats nominate Democrat candidates, and I think that there could be a process that’s a lot better than what we’re doing now”/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here.

Question: Did we misunderstand what Denney said? Or did we understand only too well?