{"id":13720,"date":"2023-07-30T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=13720"},"modified":"2024-09-23T23:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T05:22:24","slug":"idahos-presidential-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/idahos-presidential-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho&#8217;s Presidential Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It appears that Governor Little is not going to call a special session to deal with the need to reinstate the March Presidential Primary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This has to be a tragedy of epic proportions. Surely the governor understands that under current policy, our military and our absentee voters will have no vote. That has to be considered a terrible tragedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some have suggested that the Legislature ought to call itself into session. I am told they can do that but they cannot limit the session to a single topic, as the Governor can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any decision has to be made before October to avoid other problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Legislature and the Governor caused this problem, and they have a moral obligation to solve it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Governor Little is not going to call a special session to deal with the need to reinstate the March Presidential Primary. This has to be a tragedy of epic proportions. Surely the governor understands that under current policy, our military and our absentee voters will have no vote. That has to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":12671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[28,348,1339],"class_list":["post-13720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions-op-eds","tag-election","tag-idaho","tag-idaho-gop","cat-243-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13722,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13720\/revisions\/13722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}