Local GOP tables 'no
confidence' discussion
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August 10, 2011 |
The Boundary County Republican Central Committee
met for the first time since Region 1 GOP
leaders issued a vote of "no confidence" to
Idaho Senators Shawn Keough and Joyce
Broadsword, and about 25 people attended.
 RCC
Chair Donna Capurso, who made the motion last
month that resulted in the no confidence vote,
opened the meeting, and worked through a rather
long agenda, with the committee unanimously
electing Caleb Davis as a State Youth
Committeeman, accepting Steve Shelman's
resignation and appointing Rick Braun to fill
his shoes as a representative on the state
Republican Central Committee, approving the
minutes of their last meeting.
Members discussed the federal charges so
recently leveled against Jeremy Hill for
allegedly killing a grizzly bear. The BCRCC had
received a presentation shortly after the
incident, which occurred in May, where they
learned that several bears had been going after
Hill's pigs and that he felt fear for his three
young children.
At the time, members agreed to have a letter
urging that charges not be brought against Hill
to be submitted to state legislators, but
Capurso later received a report that charges
would not be filed, so the letter was never
sent. After learning that charges were being
brought, the BCRCC on Tuesday reaffirmed their
support and directed that the letter be sent
seeking to get the charges dropped.
County Emergency Manager Dave Kramer gave an
overview of how the Boundary County Emergency
Management System works and trains, and gave a
look at some of the lessons learned in the wake
of the tour bus crash July 25 that involved 54
people, Pam Stout gave the Sandpoint Tea Party
report, and Larry Spencer presented and sought
local support for a federal balanced budget
constitutional amendment that he proposes the
State of Idaho present the federal government as
a state resolution.
The BCRCC unanimously agreed to submit a letter
calling on the governor to call a special
session of the state legislature to consider the
proposal, which Spencer said had met with
overwhelming approval from other state central
committees and the legislators he's presented it
to.
Reports were given on the state central
committee meeting and resolutions, and the call
finally came for discussion of the Region 1 no
confidence vote, which, Capurso said, the media
"got all wrong."
State Representative George Eskridge distributed
three pages of material and was preparing to
speak against the Region 1 vote and give his
vote of confidence in the two Senators when
discussion broke out among a few of the
committeeman regarding the hour and the need to
have time to read the material.
Before Eskridge or anyone else could speak, a
motion was made and seconded and vote taken to
table that agenda item until the next meeting,
to take place at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, September
13, at Mugsy's.
That motion passed unanimously and the meeting
adjourned. |
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