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For the week of January 23 - 29, 2002

  Editorials

Looking for a senator


It came as no surprise to the 5,266 local voters who trounced Idaho Sen. Larry Craig 2-1 in the last election when he announced that Blaine County is not part of Idaho and that he does not represent it.

However, it may have surprised the 2,796 local voters who cast ballots for Craig, not to mention the people who donated generously to his campaigns.

It turns out it isn’t just disinterest that accounts for Craig’s lack of support for wilderness, clean rivers, clean air and healthy wildlife. The little known fact that Blaine County isn’t part of Idaho explains it all.

Looks like the county commissioners need to get busy and find the county a new home. Maybe Oregon, Washington or Montana would take us. Maybe there we could find a senator to represent us.

Still, it’s puzzling. Craig has not let this matter keep him from accepting campaign donations from people who live and visit here. It hasn’t kept him from attending Republican fund-raisers here.

Now the cat’s out of the bag, perhaps he’ll seek out a more suitable place for these confabs, like the lovely banks of a mine settling pond or a nice warm nuclear waste dump.

It’s good Craig made his position clear. Next election, no Blaine County voter will have to waste a ballot—or a dollar.

 


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