House flops, OKs arts budget

After the House earlier rejected the budget for the Idaho Commission on the Arts in an unrelated dispute, it’s now voted 51-17 in favor of a new version with just one difference: There’s an extra $200 in the budget for private donations for arts education projects. Rep. Wendy Horman, R-Idaho Falls, in an unusual move, announced to the House, “I’m taking up a collection.” She brandished a stack of cash. “Members of JFAC have already been very generous, as well as many members around me,” she told the House/ Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here.

Question: I wonder which ones of our less-than-stellar North Idaho delegation voted against the arts this time?