Idaho GOP platform changes OK’d

The platform committee at the Idaho GOP state convention was allotted two days worth of time to settle on changes to the party platform, but it got done this afternoon an hour early and won’t need to meet tomorrow. There were six proposed changes; two were defeated, and four passed. The two that were defeated both were to remove items from the platform – the call for repealing the 17 ^th Amendment and doing away with direct election of U.S. senators; and the call to return to the gstandard. … The four that were approved included two calling for more state control of federal public lands; one on education, opposing unnecessary data collection and state funding for early-childhood education; and one to add the word “divinely” before “inspired” in the platform’s preamble, referring to the U.S. Constitution/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here.