Senator Crapo late for lunch
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August 6, 2013 |
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U.S. Senator Mike Crapo is just like everyone
else ... when travelling north to Bonners Ferry
today for a 12:30 p.m. luncheon, he was tied up
in road construction right along with countless
others. His guests started eating while awaiting
his delayed arrival.
Crapo didn't mind a bit, but found humor in the
situation.
"They told me the Sandpoint bypass would speed
things up!" he quipped.
Around 70 people gathered at the Kootenai River
Inn for the luncheon; including county
commissioners, mayors, leaders and officials of
the Kootenai Tribe, business leaders and the
just plain curious.
"It's great to be back up here where the air is
clean and people have good sense," Crapo said
after being introduced by county commission
chair Dan Dinning. "If the people of North Idaho
were running Congress, I don't think this nation
would be faced with all the problems we're faced
with now."
He then spoke on a number of those issues; the
level of federal debt, tax reform and the ever
increasing intrusion into the privacy of
American citizens and business by a growing
panoply of federal agencies, and of what he and
the Idaho delegation, along with a growing
number of representatives in both the Senate and
the House are doing to rein in a federal
government run rampant.
After answering questions posed by those in
attendance, the Senator and a few members of his
staff, obviously famished and having eyed the
feast put on by Inn staff since they arrived,
got to enjoy a quick bite before embarking on a
tour of one of many local projects Dinning said
Crapo's support at the local level helped make
possible, the Kootenai Tribe's Kootenai River
restoration project.
Then it was off to Bonner County for a meeting
with county commissioners there. |
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