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Candidate Recommendations

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 […]

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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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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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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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Will Idaho Still Be Heaven For Our Children?

On August 18th in North Carolina Kamala Harris stated: “As President, I will work in partnership with industry (developers—jl) to build the housing that we need both to rent and buy. We will take down barriers and cut red tape including at the state and local levels.” This speech could have been given by Boise […]

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Idaho Supreme Court Denies Access to Innocence Compensation Fund for Man Convicted of Robbery, Kidnapping, Aggravated Battery

[BOISE] – Today, the Idaho Supreme Court denied John Wurdemann access to a compensation fund for defendants who are wrongfully convicted and are subsequently able to demonstrate their innocence. This fund has been used previously for defendants who were exonerated by DNA evidence. John Wurdemann was convicted for a June 2000 crime when he and […]

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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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The True Cost of Prop 1

Do you want Idaho to spend $40 million dollars on new electronic vote tabulation machines made by Dominion Voting Systems? According to the Secretary of State, Phil McGrane, if Proposition 1 passes this may be our new reality. This November you will be voting on Proposition 1 which is an initiative to eliminate our current […]

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Be Smart, Say “NO” to Corporate Immunity

I read Senator Mark Harris’ recent article that read more like a propaganda piece than an opinion piece. The theme of his article was that unless the Idaho legislature provides Bayer, the manufacturer of Roundup, with immunity, civilization as we know it will collapse. Until I read Senator Harris’ article, I never knew that without […]

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New reports show culture of dependency beneath Idaho’s welfare ‘safety net’

Reprinted with permission of the Idaho Freedom Foundation New data reveals most able-bodied adults on Idaho’s welfare programs are not working, and enrollees tend to remain on the books for years—not weeks or months. By supporting increasingly generous benefits, taxpayers are funding a lifestyle hidden in the guise of a social safety net. It is […]

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Idaho vs Minnesota

This week, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris chose Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. This decision offers a stark contrast between the country we love and what the Democrats have planned. Minnesota under Governor Walz is a vision of the dystopian future a Harris/Walz administration would impose on America. Under Walz, Minnesota […]

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