If some of you have time today, can you post some comments at the link for this editorial? With only 2 legislative weeks left in our Idaho session, we are still trying to get Senator McKenzie to let Senator Mike Jorgenson's bill S1155 be heard to force employers to use E-Verify. Thanks.


LEADERSHIP: State needs to improve
Posted: Saturday, Mar 28, 2009 - 06:55:28 pm PDT
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We need leaders in Idaho.

Not the business-as-usual, majority of politicians in our state capitol. Our state is not improved by serving only the wealthy, by taxing the citizen and not the businessman, by posturing and grandstanding while our transportation system disintegrates; our schools languish, the number of illegal aliens employed by corporate farms climb, while our state's workers are told -- yet again -- that their substandard wages must be reduced because our legislature and governor refuse to tax those entities that have gorged at our public trough, tax-free, for decades.

We don't need more feel-good declarations, specialty license plates, God Bless America photo ops, nor meaningless excuses ("not in an election year;" "not in these economic times") for political constipation.

Our legislature needs fortitude, political courage -- a recognition that it's not about them, their political cronies, their lobbyist lunch mates, or their place in history. It's about serving all Idaho's citizens, no matter the opposition, no matter the public's perception. It's about recognizing opportunities and backing unpopular decisions. It's about coming prepared, having informed discussions and producing legislation for the common good, regardless of what the old guard wants. It's about doing the right thing.

We need leaders in Idaho.

JIM WEST

Coeur d'Alene


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