<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Esto perpetua, V-Peeps.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Courtesy of KHQ at:</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><a href="http://www.khq.com/story/22735900/otter-dumps-rival-names-idaho-reps-wife-instead" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.khq.com/story/22735900/otter-dumps-rival-names-idaho-reps-wife-instead</font></a></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------------------------</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div id="WNStoryHeader" style="margin-bottom: 13px; "><h3 class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; clear: both; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Otter dumps rival, names Idaho rep's wife instead</span></font></h3></div><div id="WNStoryBody" class="" style="margin-bottom: 15px; display: inline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; ">BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter named U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson's wife to a board that nominates Idaho judges, in the process replacing a Republican Party rival who has split with the governor on numerous issues.</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; ">Otter named Kathy Simpson of Idaho Falls to the seven-member Idaho Judicial Council to replace Ron Nate of Rexburg, whose term ended last month.</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; ">Otter and Nate have differed on numerous GOP issues in recent years.</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; ">Nate helped promote Idaho's closed Republican primary, while Otter opposed it.</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; ">Nate also favors punishing Republican lawmakers who vote contrary to internal GOP party resolutions, such as when the 2013 Idaho Legislature backed Otter's state-based insurance exchange.</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; ">Judicial council members not only help nominate new judges, but oversee discipline of wayward members of the bench, should such an instance arise.</p></div></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------------------------<br><br></span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still </span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill <br>If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon<br></span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div></div></body></html>