Homeless guv wannabe arrested

A Boise man who recently registered to run for governor of Idaho in 2018 using a local homeless shelter as his address is in the Ada County Jail, after turning himself in over the weekend on a probation violation.

According to Ada County jail records, Troy Minton, 39, also was served with a warrant for an additional charge of petit theft when he turned himself in at 11:20 p.m. Saturday; he had been on probation for another petit theft charge. His court record shows several similar charges.

Minton was booked into the jail and remained there on Tuesday afternoon.

Minton, formerly a plaintiff in an anti-panhandling lawsuit, filed his initial paperwork with the Idaho Secretary of State’s office to run for governor in 2018 on March 27, filing as a Democrat. He told KTVB-TV in Boise a week later that he’s lived in several homeless shelters and at one point lived on the street, and that his life experiences were behind his desire to run and champion raising the minimum wage and helping struggling Idaho families/ Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise. More here.