<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Reminder: A candidates forum, sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Moscow, is being held this evening (7:00) at the Latah County Fairgrounds. Seeya there, Moscow.</div><div><br></div>Courtesy of today’s (April 25, 2018) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.<div><br></div><div>———————————————</div><div><br></div><div><div><h1 itemprop="headline" class="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 42px; margin: 0px 100px 0px 0px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Foreman calls Moscow area ‘cesspool of liberalism’</span></h1><h2 itemprop="alternativeHeadline" class="subhead" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 10px 100px 10px 0px; font-size: 24px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Idaho 5th District legislative candidates express pro-life, pro-gun views at forum in Fernwood</span></h2></div><div><br></div><div>Idaho 5th District Sen. Dan Foreman, R-Moscow, did not hold back his thoughts when speaking about Moscow area residents during a candidates forum Tuesday night at UpRiver Bible Church in Fernwood.</div><div><br></div><div>“Latah County, particularly the university, greater Moscow area, is a cesspool of liberalism,” Foreman said.</div><div><br></div><div>Some of the roughly 50 attendees inside the church applauded Foreman’s comments.</div><div><br></div><div>Foreman was joined by Hari Heath, R-Santa, and Terry Hardman, D-Sanders.</div><div><br></div><div>Foreman is facing a challenge from Marshall Comstock, R-Moscow, in the May primary election, and Hardman is facing Laurene Sorensen, D-Moscow, in a race for 5th District House Seat B, which is currently held by Caroline Nilsson Troy, R-Genesee. Heath is running against Bill Goesling, R-Moscow, for 5th District House Seat A, which is held by Margie Gannon, D-St. Maries.</div><div><br></div><div>All three present Tuesday expressed their opposition to abortion and support for the Second Amendment.</div><div><br></div><div>“Folks, we need to stop murdering unborn kids in America and in the United States,” Foreman said. “It’s immoral, and it’s just stupid, and it has to stop.”</div><div><br></div><div>He said the centerpiece of his legislative efforts has been pro-life legislation, which he said he attempted to introduce twice but could not even get the legislation into a committee.</div><div><br></div><div>If elected to another two-year term, Foreman said his anti-abortion campaign will be the cornerstone of his efforts once again.</div><div><br></div><div>Heath said he will be happy to work with Foreman on passing anti-abortion legislation if the two are elected.</div><div><br></div><div>“I’m your only pro-life candidate available in this particular race,” Heath said.</div><div><br></div><div>“Murder is a crime,” Heath added. “There’s no statute of limitations, and for good reason.”</div><div><br></div><div>Foreman also touched on the Second Amendment.</div><div><br></div><div>“If government starts placing restrictions on rights, then they are no longer rights,” Foreman said. “You shouldn’t have to bargain with anyone or pay a fee to exercise your rights.</div><div><br></div><div>“(Legislators) need to keep their bloody hands off of the Second Amendment,” Foreman added.</div><div><br></div><div>Foreman said Idaho senators will not “sell out” Idahoans’ Second Amendment rights.</div><div><br></div><div>“They don’t do a really good job on a lot of things in my opinion, and it’s an educated opinion,” Foreman said, “but with respect to the Second Amendment, they’ve held their ground, and I think will continue to do that.”</div><div><br></div><div>Heath also said the Second Amendment is an absolute right.</div><div><br></div><div>“Taking away the Second Amendment won’t take away the right that we already have,” Heath said.</div><div><br></div><div>Foreman said he voted “yes” on every pro-gun bill during the past two legislative sessions and voted “no” on every tax increase, “wasteful spending bill” and expansion of government effort he recognized.</div><div><br></div><div> “You have a good state government in terms of how it’s structured and how it’s supposed to run and could run,” Foreman said. “You have a very weak state government in terms of how it is running.”</div><div><br></div><div>Foreman said he voted against the University of Idaho budget twice and that he his happy he did because “there was a lot of pork in it, and I’m a steward of the people’s tax dollars.”</div><div><br></div><div>“If I see wasteful spending bills, I vote no,” Foreman said. “Other legislators are too doggone chicken to vote no when it comes to anything for education.”</div><div><br></div><div>Hardman, the lone Democrat at the forum, said he is pro-life and pro-Second Amendment. He said he believes the U.S. and Idaho constitutions are governing documents that need to be interpreted in the spirit they were written.</div><div><br></div><div>Heath said he wants the people to have control of government again.</div><div><br></div><div>“We the people are the ones who create government,” Heath said.</div><div><br></div><div>Three Benewah County Commissioner candidates also spoke Tuesday night.</div></div><div><br></div><div>———————————————<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="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="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>