<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Ladies and gentlemen . . . the main event . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Let's get ready to RRRRRRRUUUUUUUMMMMMBLE ! ! !</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of the Idaho Statesman at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/12/02/2366855/mcgee-affair-bleeds-into-senate.html">http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/12/02/2366855/mcgee-affair-bleeds-into-senate.html</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------</div><div><p style="margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 620px !important; "><img src="cid:F9B355C8-8D62-4D2B-A748-0302C217207D" alt="image.jpeg" id="F9B355C8-8D62-4D2B-A748-0302C217207D" width="648" height="83"></p><p style="margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 620px !important; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="dateline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">BOISE, IDAHO</span> — Former Republican Sen. John McGee's Senate exit is bleeding into a fight over leadership of the chamber's dominant GOP faction for 2013.</span></p><p style="margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 620px !important; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Senate Majority Leader Bart Davis is being challenged by Sen. Dean Mortimer for the No. 2 position in Wednesday's secret vote.</span></p><p style="margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 620px !important; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The two Idaho Falls lawmakers would seem natural allies. However, the Idaho Statesman reports of dissatisfaction in the caucus over Davis' handling of the McGee affair.</span></p><p style="margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 620px !important; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Davis remained a McGee ally, despite the Caldwell lawmaker's 2011 drunken-driving conviction.</span></p><p style="margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 620px !important; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile, Mortimer was among nine senators who said publicly they tried to oust McGee as majority caucus chair in a closed-door vote in January - just weeks before sexual-harassment allegations ended McGee's career.</span></p><p style="margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 620px !important; "></p><p style="margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 620px !important; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Davis declined comment to The Associated Press on Saturday.</span></p><p style="margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 620px !important; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mortimer was in Texas and couldn't be reached.</span></p><p style="margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 620px !important; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There are two other leadership races in the Senate. Curt McKenzie of Nampa is challenging Assistant Majority Leader Chuck Winder of Boise, and Steve Bair of Blackfoot takes on Majority Caucus Leader Russ Fulcher of Meridian, who was elected to the leadership post when McGee quit in February.</span></p><p style="margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 620px !important; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-------------------------------------</span></p><p></p><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px; height: 1px; text-align: left; overflow: hidden; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><font><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Read more here: <a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/12/02/2366855/mcgee-affair-bleeds-into-senate.html#st">http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/12/02/2366855/mcgee-affair-bleeds-into-senate.html#st</a></div></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px; height: 1px; text-align: left; overflow: hidden; "><font><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Read more here: <a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/12/02/2366855/mcgee-affair-bleeds-into-senate.html#storylink=cpy">http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/12/02/2366855/mcgee-affair-bleeds-into-senate.html#storylink=cpy</a></div></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px; height: 1px; text-align: left; overflow: hidden; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><font><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Read more here: <a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/12/02/2366855/mcgee-affair-bleeds-into-senate.html#storylink=cpy">http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/12/02/2366855/mcgee-affair-bleeds-into-senate.html#storylink=cpy</a></div></font></div><p></p><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px; height: 1px; text-align: left; overflow: hidden; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Davis remained a McGee ally, despite the Caldwell lawmaker's 2011 drunken-driving conviction.</span><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 1px; height: 1px; text-align: left; overflow: hidden; "><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><font><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Read more here: <a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/12/02/2366855/mcgee-affair-bleeds-into-senate.html#storylink=cpy">http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/12/02/2366855/mcgee-affair-bleeds-into-senate.html#storylink=cpy</a></div></font></div></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Read more here: <a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/12/02/2366855/mcgee-affair-bleeds-into-senate.htm">http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/12/02/2366855/mcgee-affair-bleeds-into-senate.htm</a></span></div></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen, CPL (Commie Pinko Liberal)</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></body></html>