Idaho Republicans push to the right at party convention | Idaho Politics | Idaho Statesman
The Idaho Republican Party is having its convention this weekend. Just in case you thought having a candidate who thought Puerto Rico was a foreign country was as low as the Idaho Republican Party could get, that was just a warm up. Among the proposals being tossed around by Idaho's dominant party:
* immediately disband all public schools (which almost makes sense. If we're going to be this stupid, why pay for schools?)
* repeal the 17th amendment to the constitution, which would take away the public's right to elect their own state senators (you know, a nice warm up for the next convention when they can try to repeal that pesky 15th amendment and 19th amendment--giving blacks and women, respectively, the right to vote.)
* deny federal order declaring carbon dioxide a pollutant would be ignored by Idaho as "junk science." (because if you're locked in a small space without any holes or windows for many hours, it really isn't the carbon dioxide that kills you....it's little green men from Mars who do it....)
and my personal favorite:
* define marriage as between a "naturally born" man and woman, barring transgender individuals (I can only guess that some whackadoo is afraid that someone will be able to get a sex-change then get married in Idaho? Which, you know, I'm sure is likely because if you are "transgender," gay, black, Latino, non-Christian, or anything but an extremely heterosexual white male, Idaho is certainly on the top of your list as a hot place to move to. Right after the top of an active volcano.)
Honestly, every time I think the far-right in Idaho has been as embarrassing as they could possibly be, they find new ways to prove me wrong........
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