Tribe, new PAC behind voter project

A political action committee called the North Idaho Voter Project was established last week to address low voter turnout in the region and garner votes for Republican legislative candidates Luke Malek and Peter Riggs. The project is funded through a $7,000 contribution from the Coeur d’Alene Tribe and a $5,000 contribution from the CenturyLink Idaho Political Action Committee — a voluntary, nonpartisan, employee-funded committee established by communications and data provider CenturyLink to allow its employees to pool their resources to support candidates and political causes. Helo Hancock, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s legislative director, told The Press Tuesday that although the PAC was recently established, the committee had been discussed internally for a considerable amount of time/ Keith Cousins , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.