Posted on 02/09/2024 4:09:08 AM PST by cotton1706
Fights within the Idaho GOP boiled over Thursday as lawmakers ousted a senior member of Republican leadership.
Rep. Megan Blanksma, R-Hammett, was removed from her position as majority leader, the most senior position in the House after Speaker Mike Moyle. The vote against Blanksma came a day after she was the lone House leader to vote against budgets passed by a panel of lawmakers — an apparent statement made over a new controversial process for setting state agencies’ budgets.
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Rather than pass individualized budgets, the co-chairs of the committee, Rep. Wendy Horman, R-Idaho Falls, and Sen. Scott Grow, R-Eagle, implemented rules to first group sets of agencies together and pass “maintenance” budgets, which provide minimal funds needed to keep the agencies operating. Only after that would lawmakers consider requests from agencies for new spending. The committee leaders have said that process allows for more scrutiny.
While the Legislature’s hard-right members and some others have come out in favor of the new approach, a group of more traditional Republicans rebelled and sent a set of comprehensive budgets of agencies that included more funding, similar to ones approved in years past, to the House floor.
House lawmakers voted to pass the first “maintenance” budget bill Wednesday. Blanksma was the only member of Republican leadership to vote against it.
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Any Idaho FReepers tell us about the players involved? Are they Conservative or are they Democrats?
They aren't simply counting heads, since Idaho Republicans appear to solidly control both chambers: 28-7 in the Senate and 59-11 in the House.
They expose many "Republicans" for who they really are: liberals who put an (R) after their names on the ballot because they'd never get into office as a (D) in their districts. Plenty of voters are fooled, and this sort of thing is hardly limited to Idaho.
What is going on in the Idaho legislature is a battle between rinos and conservatives and for once conservatives are making some inroads. We’ve been ruled by the Rhinos for quite a while but God willing things are changing!
Amen
What many outside of Idaho do not realize, is that 80% of everyone moving to Idaho are more conservative than those who already lived here.
those like me are moving the state to the right, and the old Mormon controlled Rino leadership is in a tizzy, because us conservatives moved up here and we are not taking any prisoners.
last election saw the biggest defeat of Rinos the state has seen in yeas, and come November 2024 we will replace wvwen more establishment Rinos
Yes!!! Friend of mine is an Idaho State Rep... conservatives are making inroads.
Thanks for posting that link.
The Institute for Legislative Analysis is a good source of information. It reinforces my belief that RINOS are Democrats.
“It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.” ~ Sun Tzu
Also in TX, LA big time
And every other of those big rectangular states where Republicans appear to have overwhelming majorities in the state legislatures (ND, SD, NE, SD, WY and UT), plus much of the deep South.
Whether the Republicans have actual control — as opposed to a mere numerical advantage — in any of those is debatable.
Funny thing though, the reverse NEVER applies in ultra-liberal Democrat states. E.g., the Massachusetts legislature is not exactly swarming with Republicans who are simply posing as Democrats. Same in New York, California, Illinois, and at least a dozen other states.
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