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Update on the Lava Ridge Fight

Dear Friends, Over the last week, I’ve filed two separate suits in strategic opposition to the Lava Ridge wind turbine project proposed for the Magic Valley on Bureau of Land Management property. The project itself is promoted by Magic Valley Energy, LLC, an East Coast energy consortium which plans to ship most of the power […]

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Idaho State Medal of Honor Presented to Boise Police Officer Chris Dance

[BOISE] – Today, the State of Idaho Medal of Honor Commission awarded the 2024 Medal of Honor to Officer Chris Dance of the City of Boise Police Department in recognition of his heroic acts during the 2021 shooting at the Boise Towne Square Mall, during which two people lost their lives and several others were […]

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Destructive Forest Mismanagement

Our Forests are Dying & Burning due to Poor Forest Management & the Ban on DDT Insecticide which Controlled Pine Beetles. Please work to restore DDT to stop the death & burning of our precious US Forest Service forests. DDT was used very safely to control Pine Beetles. Poor forest management of not allowing the […]

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Why Rank Choice Voting is BAD

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” ~ Thomas Sowell Ranked Choice Voting will be on the ballot in November as Proposition 1, but what is RCV and what will it do to Idaho and you? Prop 1 eliminates […]

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The Math of Ranked Choice Voting

Prop 1, Ranked Choice Voting, will be on the ballot this November. What is it? What impact will it have? Should Idaho support it? The Ranked Choice Voting website explains what it is: “Ranked choice voting (RCV) is an election method in which voters rank candidates for an office in order of their preference (first […]

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Sustains Act – Theft Of Private Property

Along with other state Attorneys General, Raul Labrador was successful in stopping the Natural Asset Companies (NAC), at least for now. However, in its continued quest against the American people, the federal government has essentially put the same agenda into a piece of legislation called the Sustains Act. Basically, the Sustains Act is the same […]

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Idaho Prevails Against Biden-Harris Administration in Federal Stockwater Case

[BOISE] – Attorney General Raúl Labrador secured a significant victory for Idaho water rights against federal claims of unconstitutionality in the United States v. Idaho. U.S. District Court Judge David Nye rejected the Department of Justice’s attempt to block Idaho ranchers from seeking forfeiture of stockwater rights on public lands that the United States is […]

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Rural Community Advocates, Save Our Ground, to hold fundraiser Event in Kuna

(Kuna, Idaho) Save Our Ground, rural community advocates, gained a temporary stay in Ada County, to stop an industrial-scale solar farm in the middle of farms in the Melba and Kuna communities during Ada County Commissioners meetings in July and August. They are planning a community benefit concert to fund the non-profit. Dustin Ferdinand, one […]

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Prop 1 Fact Check

About a third of all the visitors to the Republican tent at the North Idaho Fair had no idea about Proposition 1 and were unaware it was going to be on the November ballot. So what is Prop 1 and why should they or you care. If passed, Proposition 1 would eliminate our current primary […]

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Labrador Letter: The Misinformation Campaign of the Idaho Statesman

Dear Friends, I know it will come as no surprise to the readers of the Labrador Letter that I’m not particularly fond of the media. Some reporters in Idaho try to be fair but most newspaper editorial boards and columnists are nothing short of left wing idealogues. They persistently show their editorial bias in the […]

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Ignorant, Brainwashed, or Lying

“The trouble with our Liberal friends is that they know so much that isn’t so.” Ronald Reagan When I hear a progressive say something that is obviously untethered from the truth I consider whether that person is ignorant, brainwashed or lying. Ignorant if they simply do not know the truth. Brainwashed if they have been […]

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Prop 1 Ranked Choice Voting Is Expensive

Six years ago, Reclaim Idaho promised the people of Idaho that Medicaid Expansion would only cost around $400 million a year and that, since it was mostly covered by the federal government, it would be practically free. Today, taxpayers are shelling out many times that amount, and with the national debt now over $35 trillion, […]

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