Posted on 10/11/2022 5:53:09 PM PDT by cotton1706
Nearly 50 longtime Idaho Republicans, including a former governor and dozens of other past and current officeholders, on Tuesday endorsed the Democratic candidate for attorney general in November’s election.
Republicans attended a news conference at the Statehouse with Boise attorney Tom Arkoosh, who has said he has no political ambitions other than to run the office fairly.
“Tom Arkoosh is the first candidate on the Democratic ticket I have supported in my 66 years of work with the Republican Party," said Republican Sen. Patti Anne Lodge, the powerful chairwoman of the Senate's State Affairs Committee who is retiring this year.
“When that conversation happens, we will move away from extremism,” he said. “We will become Idahoans altogether again.”
Arkoosh announced his candidacy in July after former U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador defeated five-term incumbent Attorney General Lawrence Wasden in the Republican primary in May.
Arkoosh and the Republicans supporting him say Labrador will turn the office into a partisan base to further his own political ambitions. Wasden is well known for a strategy he describes as even-handedly calling balls and strikes on legal matters, frequently irking fellow Republicans in ruby red Idaho.
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But they have revealed themselves as Democrat operatives.
How? Where's your proof of that??
What more do you need to hear?
They are afraid of someone looking into the 202o election, and finding the GOPe complicity in the election theft, even though it failed there.
“Tom Arkoosh, who has said he has no political ambitions other than to run the office fairly.”
Yeah right. Dems lie. The title should be 50 RINOS kneeled to a Dem.
Do you help your adversaries?
They endorsed a Democrat. Duh!
There’s a whole lot of Republicans not acting like Republicans. What would Renaldo Maximus have to say about that?
Idaho has a RINO problem. It was hidden in the past, but becoming more evident as of late.
Potato heads..
The old guard are frightened. There was a bloodbath in the primaries.
But I can't see why Republicans would support the Democrat or believe that he'd actually be non-partisan.
crime rate not high enough?
vote dem for AG
watch it skyrocket
If he was that great his name wouldn’t be anywhere near the libtard ticket
It’s a scam
Hillary has said she won’t run for president again.
Anyone buying that tripe?
This guy is a Democrat. He’s almost certainly lying. It’s
what Democrats do.
EVERY SINGLE STATE that can be described as “ruby red” (a la the article) has a major RINO problem, not just Idaho. Democrats know they can’t get elected to anything, so they simply run as “Republicans” and have been doing so for decades.
It’s amazing that it takes something like these Idaho quislings to make people aware that the problem even exists.
Note that the reverse NEVER happens — for example, there are not a bunch of closet Republicans getting elected as Democrats (DINOs) in far-left lunatic asylums such as California, Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, etc. But in every “red” state there are more RINO officeholders than most people can count.
You make it sound like there is any difference between R and D.
In a state like Idaho, to advance in politics you need to have an (R) next to your name.
No, I make it sound like we are changing our politicians because there is no difference even though there is supposed to be. 🙂
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