Cheers to … Sen Shawn Keough

The way things are going in Idaho’s Panhandle, Keough takes a risk every time she thinks for herself. The latest example: An as-yet unidentified group that has put up the site www.retireshawnkeough.com . Among its distortions, it claims Keough is pro-abortion. No, she voted against Boise Republican Sen. Chuck Winder’s 2012 bill to require anyone seeking an abortion to submit to state-sponsored rape - an invasive transvaginal ultrasound. Winder’s idea was so outrageous that even the conservative Idaho House buried it. It calls her anti-gun rights. No. But neither did she think it was a good idea to inject concealed weapons into a college campus setting. Idaho lawmakers disregarded the advice of just about everyone — such as cops, students, parents, faculty and college administrators — to follow the dictates of the gun lobby. Not six months later, the skeptics were proved right when Idaho State University professor Byron Bennett accidentally shot himself in the foot while giving a lecture. More here.