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IDemo

(16,926 posts) Wed Mar 11, 2015, 11:51 AM Mar 2015

Idaho lawmakers approve spending $400,000 to kill wolves

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho lawmakers have approved spending $400,000 to kill wolves.

The Spokesman-Review reports that the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee approved the money Tuesday for the Idaho Wolf Depredation Control Board.

The vote maintains the operating budget at the same level as the previous year for the five-member board created last year and operated under the governor's office.

Last year the board spent about $140,000 to kill 31 wolves between July 1 and Jan. 1 at a cost of about $4,500 per wolf.

http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/local/capitol-watch/2015/03/11/wolves-kill-funding/70145108/

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Idaho lawmakers approve spending $400,000 to kill wolves (Original Post) IDemo Mar 2015 OP

I will never visit Idaho again. sinkingfeeling Mar 2015 #1

Idaho, politically, is just weird. ffr Mar 2015 #2

Sick and stupid is more like it... 2naSalit Mar 2015 #4

I'd be gone this afternoon if I could find a job elsewhere IDemo Mar 2015 #7

Ya don't say? IDemo Mar 2015 #6

They hate animals that are more intelligent than they are. hunter Mar 2015 #3

In Idaho... 2naSalit Mar 2015 #5

Yep. hunter Mar 2015 #8

sinkingfeeling

(51,457 posts)

1. I will never visit Idaho again.

Reply to IDemo (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 11:54 AM

Mar 2015

ffr

(22,670 posts)

2. Idaho, politically, is just weird.

Reply to IDemo (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 12:03 PM

Mar 2015

2naSalit

(86,646 posts)

4. Sick and stupid is more like it...

Reply to ffr (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 12:58 PM

Mar 2015

oh and a theocracy. That's why I left the state. Beautiful real estate, totally fucked up social climate. Sadly, my choice of refuge is rapidly becoming as bad as Idaho.

IDemo

(16,926 posts)

7. I'd be gone this afternoon if I could find a job elsewhere

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #4)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 01:06 PM

Mar 2015

My great-great grandparents came here by covered wagon. I hate to see this beautiful place so thoroughly trashed by a band of crazies and their sycophants.

IDemo

(16,926 posts)

6. Ya don't say?

Reply to ffr (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 01:02 PM

Mar 2015

hunter

(38,317 posts)

3. They hate animals that are more intelligent than they are.

Reply to IDemo (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 12:10 PM

Mar 2015

There's not much intelligent life left in the Republican Party, just a bunch of zombies marching to the broadcast orders of their corporate masters.

2naSalit

(86,646 posts)

5. In Idaho...

Reply to hunter (Reply #3)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 01:00 PM

Mar 2015

it's not just corporate masters, they have the extra added intellectual vacuum of mormon domination to boot. Anything progressive in that state is tacitly prohibited.

hunter

(38,317 posts)

8. Yep.

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #5)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 01:16 PM

Mar 2015

One of my ancestors was a nineteenth century mail order bride from Northern Europe to Salt Lake City. She didn't enjoy sharing a husband so she ran away with a monogamous fellow, thus establishing my Wild West family's strange relationship with the Mormons as people to buy things like alcohol and condoms from, or arbitrate certain sorts of disputes with great discretion.

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