Most Idaho Dems are still mourning, and still a little
dumbfounded that Idaho's 1st district voters would once again elect the craziest of the GOP bunch. It's become almost a point of pride with Idaho Republicans to send the most inane, idiotic, embarrassing, and ineffective person they can find to DC to represent them.
But still, Democrats in Boise have some reason for hope. From NewWest.net:
The legislative districts which make up the core of Boise are now represented by a troupe of all-singing, all-dancing Democrats.
The new "Ada Eight" representatives-to-be are celebrating victories over incumbent Republicans who have seemed unbeatable in the past. The soon-to-be freshmen are District 16's Les Bock, District 17's Bill Killen and Sue Chew, and District 18's Phylis King and Branden Durst. They join incumbent Democrats Margaret Henbest (16), Nicole LeFavour and Anne Pasley-Stuart in District 19.
Nicole LeFavor is also the only openly gay politician in Idaho, and was handily reelected to her second term Tuesday. These gains in Boise gave Democrats a half dozen new seats in the legislature. They are still woefully underrepresented statewide, but it's a little better. Another small, but significant, sign that the city is moving forward: voters finally put to rest a ridiculous battle to restore a Ten Commandments monument to a city park it had been removed from several years ago. They rejected the initiative 47.3 to 52.7. Small victories, just like in Dallas, but enough to give a little hope.