Jeers — to Scott supporter Giddings

Yet here was Giddings on Monday joining four hard-liners such as Rep. Ron Nate, R-Rexburg, in an apparent show of solidarity with defrocked state Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard.

After Scott accused leadership of trading sexual favors for choice committee assignments, House Speaker Scott Bedke, R-Oakley, stripped away her committee assignments.

Well, five more can play that game: Take away our committee assignments, too, they dared the speaker.

Giddings told the Tribune’s William L. Spence she was summoned to a closed-door meeting with Scott, Bedke and House Majority Leader Mike Moyle, R-Star, and she didn’t like what she saw.

But who would it hurt if Bedke reciprocated?

Remove Giddings from the State Affairs Committee and she’d have no voice about any bill to impose more strenuous background checks on gun purchases.

Dropped from the Resources and Conservation Committee, Giddings could do virtually nothing about Fish and Game policy.

Ousting Giddings from Local Government would deprive her of any real influence over urban renewal reforms.

She’d be left holding her breath, waiting to turn blue. Full Cheers & Jeers column.