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Bill Cope has something to say about Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo:
A couple of months ago, our local weekly picked Bill Cope's column back up....glad to see it.
One recent morning, as I was prodding the little grey cells into action with coffee and some news, Mike Crapos campaign ad came on. Youve seen it, I bet. Hes standing there in his once-every-six-years jeans, a gallon of milk in one hand and a plastic gas tank in the other, complaining about Joe Bidens inflation, as though with his $174,000 a year job plus anything and everything he can pull in from special interests to keep his butt in that $174,000-a-year job he needs to worry about grocery shopping or mowing the lawn.
Now normally, I rely on the remotes MUTE option to escape crap like oh, for instance a Mike Crapo campaign ad. But this particular morning, just as I was about to shush Mikey up, I thought Ya know, Bill, that election is right around the corner, so maybe you should be writing something about this goof. If you let this one slip by, your next chance wont be for another six years!
Right. This fall, Crapo is running for his fifth term. If he wins which is likely, and Im confident even his opponent (David Roth, an Idaho Falls lad) would privately agree in six more years he will have been hunkering down in the Senate for three decades. Counting the six years he spent in the House and the eight he spent in the Idaho Legislature, he will have been on the public dime for 44 years, doing what?
Not that he doesnt pop up on occasion, doing something. There was a picture of him a few years back (six years ago, now that I think about it, hmmm ) over in Greenleaf, putting on a show of congratulating that little burg in the Canyon County beet fields for going full hillbilly on guns. I did a column about it at the time. See, the village poohbahs had passed a municipal ordinance encouraging strongly everybody in town to own at least one gun, and Crapo must have calculated it was a dandy opportunity to show voters how he was all in for every last moron in Idaho being capable of killing other morons. But I cant remember if that column was about my low regards for the Greenleaf leaders for the grand-standing and essentially meaningless stunt, or Crapo for his sloppy pander to those simpletons who think the Second Amendment is the only one that counts.
Now normally, I rely on the remotes MUTE option to escape crap like oh, for instance a Mike Crapo campaign ad. But this particular morning, just as I was about to shush Mikey up, I thought Ya know, Bill, that election is right around the corner, so maybe you should be writing something about this goof. If you let this one slip by, your next chance wont be for another six years!
Right. This fall, Crapo is running for his fifth term. If he wins which is likely, and Im confident even his opponent (David Roth, an Idaho Falls lad) would privately agree in six more years he will have been hunkering down in the Senate for three decades. Counting the six years he spent in the House and the eight he spent in the Idaho Legislature, he will have been on the public dime for 44 years, doing what?
Not that he doesnt pop up on occasion, doing something. There was a picture of him a few years back (six years ago, now that I think about it, hmmm ) over in Greenleaf, putting on a show of congratulating that little burg in the Canyon County beet fields for going full hillbilly on guns. I did a column about it at the time. See, the village poohbahs had passed a municipal ordinance encouraging strongly everybody in town to own at least one gun, and Crapo must have calculated it was a dandy opportunity to show voters how he was all in for every last moron in Idaho being capable of killing other morons. But I cant remember if that column was about my low regards for the Greenleaf leaders for the grand-standing and essentially meaningless stunt, or Crapo for his sloppy pander to those simpletons who think the Second Amendment is the only one that counts.
more here:
https://www.idahopress.com/boiseweekly/opinion/bill_cope/opinion-bill-cope-the-see-through-senator/article_56db6dfc-48b3-11ed-a3f5-6ff0f20eb8b1.html
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Bill Cope has something to say about Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo: (Original Post)
yonder
Oct 2022
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Jamesm9164
(542 posts)1. Idaho, the part of North America, no one cared about and still irrelevant.
Except for two senators. Sort of like other parts of the country.
Jamesm9164
(542 posts)2. Other than to expand.
Idaho has nothing to contribute to the "wealth" of the nation other than great wilderness which we should embrace. Actually, I think the entire state should be a national park.
Stuart G
(38,439 posts)3. K & R
RussBLib
(9,034 posts)4. That is effin sad
I'll bet there is more graft and corruption under the surface.