Posted on 05/19/2022 6:10:03 AM PDT by cotton1706
Canyon County voters showed strong support for some far-right candidates in Tuesday’s Republican primary, which was underscored in two races where establishment Republicans were defeated.
Sen. Jeff Agenbroad, R-Nampa, who is co-chair of the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee, lost Tuesday to newcomer Brian Lenney. And Meridian businessman Chris Trakel beat Rep. Greg Chaney, R-Caldwell, who had made a bid for an open Senate seat, the Idaho Press previously reported.
Trakel garnered nearly 54% of the vote, while Chaney received about 46%.
“I’m glad,” Trakel said. “I’m looking forward to actually working with people and keeping my promises to them and hopefully moving everything in the right direction … no pun intended.”
Voter turnout was just under 28%, according to Canyon County spokesperson Joe Decker.
Trakel said he believed pandemic measures hurt small businesses in Caldwell and voters were looking for change.
There are definitely divisions within the Republican Party, Trakel said. There’s one side he referred to as more establishment and another side that is anti-establishment.
“It’s tearing the party apart,” Trakel said. “Unfortunately, it’s come down to the fact of you’re either 100% with me or against me.”
(Excerpt) Read more at idahopress.com ...
Idaho is being destroyed with out of control migration from west coast liberals. Taxes going up. Out of control building. Folks being forced from their home due to rising costs. It’s disgusting to read about all of it. Happening everywhere.
And all you seem to see are giddy Republican officials drooling over all the tax revenue. Not caring that they’ll all be out of a job in the future as entire city councils and county commissions are turned Democrat.
Didn’t realize that flying from Boise to southern Cali is now considered a commute.
10. Boise, Idaho
A pressure cooker housing market
Forecast home price change by May 2022: 23.3%
Local professional: Suzi Boyle, loan specialist and branch manager at Castle & Cooke Mortgage
What makes the Boise market poised for growth?
“We’ve had this kind of crazy market since 2016 but it didn’t get national attention. A healthy real estate market has four-to-six months of inventory. We haven’t had four months of inventory since 2014. I have 72 pre-approved ready-to-go buyers that have been trying all year to find a home. There’s no supply, unless you’re willing to wait eight months for a custom build job. It’s become a pressure cooker market, because it’s 35% cash buyers.
“We do have a lot of tech people that commute to Silicon Valley, finance people that commute to LA and aerospace and biotech that commute to San Diego. In addition to all that, we have a lot of California retirees coming here. People like the climate, it’s a good place to raise kids, we have really low crime, we have 52 wineries in the Treasure Valley and everybody can afford to golf and ski here.”
Far right you say. Never the far left is ever reported. Anyways more good news.
“Canyon County voters showed strong support for some far-right candidates in Tuesday’s Republican primary, which was underscored in two races where establishment Republicans were defeated.”
Win/Win! :)
Wisconsin’s Republican Primary for Governor is going the same way. The Dems don’t have a good candidate in Tony ‘One and Done’ Evers (D, WI) and of the two Republicans running against one another, both would do a much better job than the current ‘Art Teacher’ of a Governor that we have now.
Kleefisch was Lt. Governor under Scott Walker. Michaels is the owner of a HUGE local construction firm and he is running as the ‘anti-establishment’ contender and making a lot of headway. He strikes me as rather ‘Senator Ron Johnson-like’ and while Rebecca Kleefisch would do a fine job, and she’s my fist pick; she’s battle-hardened, articulate, experienced and hard working. I can live with either.
I know this is anecdotal but from what I can see from my So Cal neighborhood is it is my conservative neighbors who departing for Idaho and Texas. One just left, packing up his “Trump” banner (surprised he put it up in such a hostile lefty area).
My lefty neighbors are perfectly happy with “our” representatives Adam Schiff and Gov. Newsom.
Awesome
An old co-worker of mine is up in the Boise area. Says things are out of control.
Odd to me. If I were a Governor, county commissioner, whatever, I’d be doing my best to maintain what made the place great. Not invite an army of bulldozers, excavators and builders to destroy the place.
sounds like fantastic news.
Not real happy about McGrane’s win (Sec of State), but I did my part.
Yeah, I get that.
I am a native Californian - 66 years old - and saw my home state destroyed the same way - bulldozers leveling everything in sight for wall-to-wall housing. Tons of open space destroyed by this - now it’s massive apartment and condo buildings going up. (never-mind that we are under severe water restrictions, guess all those new buildings don’t need water).
Between that and the lefty pols in Sacramento, California is done and needs to have a fork stuck in it.
Sad if same happens in Idaho.
Boggles the mind that at this stage in the game, folks can still vote for them. Especially on the local level where they can actually do something about it.
It appears as though the folks in Montana got it right last time by doing their best to get rid of all of that and the liberals. Hopefully that trend continues.
But, there’s always next time and hopefully more folks will wake up. Not too late up there, I don’t think.
It's happening. The huge farm fields are being sold to developers and sprouting apartments instead of food. My wife noted that all these new people arriving are in for a surprise: no jobs. If you're coming with a pile of money and a retirement income, you'll survive. If you show up without employment, you're going to find little more than retail/restaurant jobs. The best paid people in town ride a bus to the Idaho National Labs at 5:30 AM M-F and arrive home at 5:30 PM. The medical professionals in town do Ok. Idaho State University pays the academic staff pretty well.
“Sad if same happens in Idaho.”
It’s happening, and in lots of other places too. Quickly in some areas, more gradually in others.
People love to claim that the majority of immigrants from places like California into Idaho, Colorado, Montana, Arizona, Utah, Texas, etc. are mainly conservatives. Because the alternative (actually the reality) is not pleasant to consider.
Those who rely only on anecdotal BS (”muh new neighbor sez he vote 4 Trump!!!”) to determine how any area larger than their immediate neighborhood is trending, should stop doing that and actually look at the recent electoral trends in Boise, Salt Lake City, Austin and similar cities, counties & metro areas.
It is obvious that these areas — both urban and suburban — are moving to the LEFT (some more rapidly than you’d expect) and not to the right, and the new invaders are a major reason why that trend is occurring.
Idaho still remembers Ruby Ridge.
When America first realized that Both Parties want power more than they want to protect Americans.
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