It isn’t every day that state Reps. Phil Hart and John Rusche agree on anything — particularly ethics in government.
But it happened Tuesday. Hart, a Hayden Republican and Ethics Committee frequent flier, voiced his support for a rewrite of House rules. So did Rusche, the Lewiston Democrat who filed an ethics complaint against Hart.
Editorial from the Idaho Statesman
Idaho lawmaker Joe Palmer said the most puzzling thing in explaining why a bill codifying the House’s ethics rules should take a shortcut to a floor vote rather than follow the normal course back to the State Affairs Committee.
Editorial from The Spokesman-Review
Nampa insurance salesman Bob Henry filed a 74-page brief with the Idaho Supreme Court Thursday,
contending that if his public-records suit hadn’t been rejected in district court last summer, Canyon
County’s financial woes with ex-Prosecutor John Bujak might have been averted.
From the Idaho Statesman