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Abusive behavior pushes good people away from participating in public policy and getting involved at a local level. We’ve heard from many who have either given up or are considering quitting politics because it’s become so toxic in our state. People involved in Idaho politics on a volunteer basis are forced to choose between standing up and taking the abuse or leaving in silence to avoid further nastiness.

The AP recently ran a story on how racism was gaining traction again in North Idaho after a local GOP group hosted Brittany Pettinbone and issued a resolution supporting her request for help in getting her fiancee's travel ban lifted. (He was a donor to the Christchurch shooter.) The media had a field day with this and used this to link Republicans to racism. Idaho Conservatives has a very different take on the situation, one that better explains what is really going on with Idaho Republicans. https://idahoconservatives.com/editorial/martyrs-north-idaho/

Lucas Baumbach, the Boise Republican legislative candidate who created the video mash-up juxtaposing phrases from speeches by Vaughn Ward and Barack Obama, calls himself a “RINO hunter” and a “Tea Party activist” and is blunt about why he created the mash-up: Because he supported Raul Labrador over Ward. His video mash-up gives the impression that Ward, in his announcement speech in the Idaho Capitol on Jan. 26, parroted Obama’s 2004 Democratic National Convention speech word-for-word, though that’s not exactly the case. “No, it wasn’t accurate - it was a piece of propaganda,” Baumbach told Eye on Boise today, “and people...

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