What is it that we, as Idahoans, care about? I can tell you very simply: We care about our children getting the best education available, we care about a strong economy with good jobs that pay competitive salaries, for us and for our children when they enter the job market, and we absolutely love our beautiful lands that surround us. Michelle Stennett has been fighting for these values and we owe it to our state to help her.
The local Republican candidates have said to us that they care about those things, too, but, frankly, they’re lying to us. Representative Steve Miller has voted to sell off our public lands, which would mean that the places we love, to hike, hunt and fish, would be closed to us but open to corporations for private profit.
Ewersen and Sutter co-opted the Democrats’ messages on education and healthcare when they spoke at Hailey’s Pizza & Politics, but they have expressed every intention of following Miller’s example of following the party line. What is that line? Just look at Miller’s voting record: fast tracking fracking in our state and putting our homes, property and health at risk; denying local government control of their own choices on minimum wage; reducing funding for education by $70 million; protecting animal abusers; allowing unlimited pollution of the rivers we fish, not to mention costing Idaho $46 million a year because he wouldn’t support international child support judgments in our state.
These are not the values of Idahoans. Michelle Stennett, fights for the people of Idaho, not against them, and she protects the state we love. Help her move Idaho in the right direction with the help of Sally Toone and Kathleen Eder. Vote for them on Nov. 8 and we can fight for the state we love.
Lara McLean
Ketchum resident