[Vision2020] Idaho GOP considering requiring leaders' blessing

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of KHQ at:

http://www.khq.com/story/22553880/idaho-gop-considering-requiring-leaders-blessing
  
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Idaho GOP considering requiring leaders' blessing


BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Idaho Republicans aiming to run for governor, the Legislature or even coroner may first have to win approval from GOP leaders.

That's according to a proposal slated for consideration Friday and Saturday at the Republican Party Central Committee's meeting in Donnelly.

Idaho's secretary of state would put only candidate names on the GOP primary ballot with their party leaders' blessing.

The proposal comes from Region 4 Republican Chairman Rod Beck.

He's among those who believe elected GOP officials are ignoring party leaders, such as when some Republican lawmakers and Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter backed a state-based insurance exchange.

The Central Committee opposed the exchange.

Forces are mustering against Beck's proposal.

In a letter, lawmakers including House Speaker Scott Bedke say they worry it will disenfranchise the overwhelming majority of Republicans.

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Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"There's room at the top they are telling you still 
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill 
If you want to be like the folks on the hill."

- John Lennon
 

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