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BOISE, Idaho — Democrat Walt Minnick has ousted Republican U.S. Rep. Bill Sali in the 1st Congressional District, scoring Idaho’s biggest political upset in more than a decade and adding an unexpected member to the House Democratic majority. Minnick won with just more than 50 percent, or about 3,700 votes, becoming the first Democrat from Idaho to win a congressional seat since Larry LaRocco in 1992.

BOISE — U.S. Rep. Bill Sali, R-Idaho, is angry over a campaign flier mailed by the Idaho Democratic Party throughout the 1st Congressional District that shows his and his wife’s Social Security numbers on documents from their past struggles to pay debts. Sali is running against Democratic challenger Walt Minnick to represent western and northern Idaho. The fliers highlight state and federal tax liens filed against Sali, and his continuing campaign debt of more than $130,000. Sali has said he ran up the bills following law school in the early 1980s and as a result of four separate automobile accidents...

Democrats in Boise, Idaho are pretending they've done nothing wrong, as Democrats are wont, wide-eyed in amazement that anyone would question their morality after they produced a political mailer that gave out the Social Security numbers of a political opponent in a 1st Congressional District race there. The Republican, Bill Sali and his wife Terry, found their SS# printed on a mailer put out by the Idaho Democratic Party that raises concerns about past due taxes that the Sali family had earlier in their marriage. The mailer contained copies of records of the Sali's past tax problems in an effort...

BOISE – A new campaign commercial from a national Republican group targeting Idaho Democratic congressional candidate Walt Minnick has angered a nonpartisan organization that says its candidate survey is misused in the ad. “That’s pretty flagrant,” Adelaide Elm, a board member of Project VoteSmart, said of the National Republican Congressional Committee’s new anti-Minnick ad. The ad claims that Minnick “supported higher income taxes across the board,” citing the 1996 candidate survey that Project VoteSmart published when Minnick was running for the U.S. Senate 12 years ago and also citing 1996 and 2007 federal tax tables.

Democratic businessman Walt Minnick is leading Republican U.S. Rep. Bill Sali 51-45 percent according to a poll released Monday by Roll Call Magazine. The poll, conducted by Mountain West SurveyUSA, of 613 people, had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent. Sali had a favorable rating of only 33-47, compared to Minnick's 45-23. Twenty-one percent of conservative voters said they support Minnick.

Walt Minnick is still wrong for Idaho, no matter how much he tries to pose as a conservative

- The Hon. Vern Bisterfeldt is a retired Boise City Police officer and as a Republican served multiple terms as an Ada County Commissioner. He is now a Boise City Councilor. - Pat Pettiette, is a former vice president at Washington Group International, and served as the project manager for a U.S. Department of Energy project. He is a past donor to President George Bush and U.S. Senator Mike Crapo.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Acting Director Michael J. Sullivan today apologized to Congressman Bill Sali and confirmed the agency reported inconsistent versions and details of a program giving agents engraved Leatherman tool kits.

Press Release By John Foster - May 06, 2008 Walt Minnick today offered Idaho drivers low-cost gasoline to call attention to the abject failure of Washington, D.C. to address our nation’s energy crisis. He also slammed Bill Sali for his cozy relationship with “big oil.” “For one hour today, while I’m talking to Idahoans about the high cost of gasoline, Bill Sali will sit down to lunch at a fundraiser and ask for money from oil lobbyists,” Minnick said. “In 18 months he’s become a true Washington insider. What Idaho needs is a new approach and some simple fairness.” Oil...

BOISE — U.S. Rep. Bill Sali of Idaho has asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to delay opening a Mexican consulate in Boise until the government can assure Idahoans that the office will not foster the continued presence of illegal immigrants in Idaho. The request came in a letter sent Wednesday following a meeting Sali had with senior State Department officials. In the meeting, department officials expressed considerably more concern about whether the consular office would follow local zoning laws than whether it would aid people in breaking federal immigration laws, according to a prepared statement from Sali’s office. The...

Former Micron executive Larry Grant said Thursday morning that he will not run for the U.S. House in Idaho's 1st congressional district. Instead, Grant endorsed Walt Minnick, a former timber executive who ran for the U.S. Senate in 1996.

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Matt Salisbury of Nampa has declared his intention to challenge freshman GOP Congressman Bill Sali in the 2008 primary. This means Republican voters will have a choice next May, between an incumbent who subscribes to the party’s platform on the sanctity of life and the sanctity of marriage, and one who apparently does not. While Rep. Sali has been a staunch defender of life in the womb and a staunch defender of the concept that marriage is the union of one man and one woman, Salisbury evidently takes a different view. Salisbury was quoted by the Associated Press as someone...

Halloween was on Tuesday, but Idaho Democrat Larry Grant is still trying to hang onto his costume for a few days longer. This year, he went dressed as a moderate. Grant and the Idaho Mainstream press has done their darnedest to declare Grant a moderate. He's adopted the now meaningless label as a "fiscal conservative" which these days is shorthand for someone who wishes to raise taxes to pay for continued wasteful spending. Grant's most astonishing position as a potential candidate to represent the district comes in regards to the pledge of allegiance. In 2002, the US Senate including Hillary...