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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCombatting cannibalism and jailing librarians: Idaho Democrats see opportunity in extreme GOP agenda
Democrat Loree Peery knows shes a long-shot candidate for the Idaho Legislature.
But when her state House representative introduced a bill in February expanding an anti-cannibalism law action prompted by a prank video Peery decided she had to try to oust the far-right incumbent, Heather Scott.
You cant win if you dont run, Peery said, adding that Scotts focus on irrelevant issues like cannibalism shows she isnt a serious lawmaker. It forces the Republicans to work, it forces [Scott] to get out there and talk to people so they can see what shes about. It forces Republicans to spend more resources on the races.
Peery, a retired nurse, is one of dozens of Idaho Democrats seeking an office in Boise for the first time. Under new leadership, the Idaho Democratic Party has deployed a grassroots recruitment strategy to put a record number of candidates on the ballot. In fact, theres a Democrat running in every district for the first time in at least 30 years.
Democrats feel emboldened by the GOP supermajoritys obsession with culture war issues like enacting a strict abortion ban, attacking LGBTQ+ rights and proposing jailing librarians over violating book bans. They also see bitter infighting between the conservative and moderate flanks of the GOP as an opportunity to present voters with a different vision for the future of the state. Idaho was thrust into the national culture war debate again this week when the Supreme Court allowed state officials to temporarily enforce a ban on gender-affirming care, reinvigorating opposition to the law that was passed last year.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/17/idaho-democrats-comeback-00152346
TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts)Oh, the paradox of that statement.
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IbogaProject
(2,824 posts)They are featured in the released much later in 2021 Grizzly II: Revenge (1983)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8guwdc
https://m.imdb.com title tt0093119
Grizzly II: Revenge (1983)
Directed by André Szöts. With George Clooney, Laura Dern, Charlie Sheen, Louise Fletcher. All hell breaks loose when a giant Grizzly, reacting to the slaughter of Grizzlies by poachers, attacks at a massive big-band rock concert in the National Park.
hadEnuf
(2,208 posts)laws" in Idaho, is clinically insane.
However, there actually are lunatics who fully believe that Democrats are eating babies in the basements of pizza parlors.
Legislation like this is to legitimize this type of insanity to the crackpots and egg them on to take their guns and "be a patriot" by "stopping these liberal monsters".
This is planned and thought out stochastic terrorism. Nothing less.
Blue Idaho
(5,052 posts)Is batshit crazy. Even in a state like Idaho, she stands out as the far edge of the lunatic fringe.
IbogaProject
(2,824 posts)Every State, Every District strategy;
Run them ragged Run them out of every office!