The Kootenai County Republican Central Committee (KCRCC) held a special meeting on Tuesday to review the candidates for the November election and then to vote by secret ballot on which candidates the KCRCC would recommend. Many organizations, groups and associations endorse candidates for office. These groups typically are composed of individuals who are bound together […]
Category: Opinions / Op-eds
To Debate Or Not To Debate
On Tuesday night, the American people were once again reminded that Donald Trump is not only fighting the Democrats but an entrenched system that is using lies and lawfare to stand in the way of making America great again. As Republicans, we are all too familiar with how our candidates are forced to debate not […]
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 […]
[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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
(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 […]
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 […]
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 […]