Yates Wants To Build Idaho GOP

Steve Yates doesn’t talk about his opinions much. He doesn’t see that as the party chairman’s job. Instead, the recently elected state Republican chairman said, his job is to work to build the party and help its candidates win election. “It’s not a think tank,” he told the Times-News editorial board Wednesday. “It’s not a shadow government. It’s really an impressive gathering of volunteers.” Yates was elected head of Idaho’s GOP in early August, capping a contentious period that started with primary battles between mainline and tea party-backed Republicans, followed by a convention that collapsed in discord and led to more than a month of argument over who the party chairman was. The upheaval resulted in the ouster of tea party-aligned Barry Peterson. Yates doesn’t have a typical background for someone in Idaho politics/ Nathan Brown , Twin Falls Times News. More here.

Question: How can you build a party that already holds all the executive branches of state government and a supermajority of the Legislature?