Campaign season is in full swing now, I have been out knocking doors in my district and asking about issues. You meet some nice people that way. (And others.) Democratic-leaning voters are fed up with our extreme abortion ban, the recent library bill that lets any fanatic with a bug up their butt challenge any book and force it to be put in an “adults only” section (which libraries don’t have), no review or recourse, and similar stupidities. But they are also concerned about growth, and how to manage all the building without depleting our water resources.
I watched a candidate forum for two neighboring districts on Wednesday, and participated in one for my own district on Thursday. The questions were somewhat different (heh). But I even found a few square inches of common ground with our current Senator, most of whose positions I consider nutty, on the issue of the right to grow one’s own food. HOAs are frequently evil on this issue.
Then Saturday was Parade America in Nampa, and I walked it with the District 12 Democrats. That was fun. And tiring. It’s about a 3 mile route. This gal in the Liberty costume is da bomb, she won everyone over.
Campaigning takes cash, as we all know. Printing and signs and events, at a minimum. I need to put $1500 into the coordinated campaign at the state level for all the shared services. If you can help out, the Act Blue link is: secure.actblue.com/...
An odd thing is happening in the Republican primary. A barrage of mailers has been attacking Mike Moyle, my opponent, in intensely negative terms. These were timed for the primary, and only sent to registered Republicans, who are the only ones who can vote in the Republican primary. A voter I met door-knocking showed me a handful of them. The language seemed to appeal to the extreme right. And Moyle’s primary opponent is even farther right than he is, which is saying something. So I assumed these, sent by various PACs, were supporting her interests. But Moyle is blaming them on “out-of-state liberals” and “drug legalization activists”, in a blitz of his own ads all over the internet. (you probably aren’t seeing them if you don’t live in Idaho. But they are littering every article I try to read online.) I know it is Republican reflex to blame everything on the left, including things that have not, in fact, happened (!) but this is just weird. I suppose there is no political hay to be made by admitting that he is being primaried from the right.