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Stories related to Elections - IdahoShowing up to 25 most recent stories (11/6/2008) Shoshone County Undersheriff Mitch Alexander wasn't planning to run for the county's top law enforcement position after his boss, Sheriff Chuck Reynalds, was defeated in the primary. (11/6/2008) BOISE – Idaho's congressional delegation will go from 100 percent to 75 percent Republican when Walt Minnick, a Democrat, takes office in January as North Idaho's new congressman. (11/1/2008) BOISE – The Idaho attorney general's office recommends that anyone who got a campaign flier showing the Social Security numbers of a congressman and his wife shred it. (11/1/2008) BOISE – Idaho Senate candidate Jim Risch is airing two campaign commercials just before the election – but one's not running in North Idaho. (11/1/2008) Kootenai County Sheriff Rocky Watson said the proposed $145 million facilities bond that would expand the jail and update all county public safety buildings boils down to this: "If you're building a jail with sales tax, if it's $140 million, it's a half a cent. If it's only $70 million, it's a half a cent. So why phase it in? Just go get it done." (11/1/2008) BOISE – Idaho's Secretary of State is urging all Idahoans to vote – and they don't even have to have been registered in advance. (11/1/2008) Kootenai County Sheriff Rocky Watson wants voters to know that providing county law enforcement with adequate jail space, salaries and manpower is, according to Idaho law, the responsibility of the Kootenai County Board of Commissioners. (11/1/2008) District 1 Republican Kootenai County Commissioner Todd Tondee faces two challengers as he defends his first term in office. Democrat Bruce Noble wants the county to hire an administrator and change the commission structure, and Independent Greg Wells feels Republicans have become too liberal with big-ticket expenditures. (11/1/2008) District 2 Kootenai County Commission Chairman Rick Currie will defend his two terms in office against a retired Coeur d'Alene middle school principal and a former city and county politician. (10/30/2008) BOISE – Democratic candidate Walt Minnick leads Republican U.S. Rep. Bill Sali by a seven-to-five margin in one of the most telling polls of Idaho's 1st Congressional District race: a tally of the two rivals' personal firearms. (10/29/2008) MERIDIAN, Idaho – Pressed by two of his opponents to explain why he never served in the military, GOP Senate candidate Jim Risch, Idaho's current lieutenant governor, said Tuesday that an ulcer kept him from serving in the Vietnam War. (10/29/2008) BOISE – Idaho Rep. Bill Sali has run into more problems with his Federal Election Commission campaign finance filings. (10/29/2008) BOISE – The Idaho Democratic Party is defending a campaign flier it mailed throughout Idaho's 1st Congressional District that clearly shows the Social Security numbers of Rep. Bill Sali and his wife. (10/28/2008) BOISE – The two leading candidates for Idaho's open U.S. Senate seat are focusing on their differences on taxes and Social Security as the election approaches. (10/25/2008) Education is a priority for both candidates vying to represent voters in District 4, which includes most of Coeur d'Alene. (10/25/2008) Tamara Lee Poelstra has been knocking on doors, more than 4,000 of them.People tell her they're worried about losing their jobs. They can't pay for health care. They want a good education for their kids. (10/25/2008) BOISE – Idaho Rep. Bill Sali says he'll move his main district office if he's re-elected, after the House Committee on Administration said he's violating House rules by maintaining his office outside the 1st Congressional District. (10/25/2008) BOISE – Idaho Rep. Bill Sali has a new campaign ad out charging that one of his rival's "priorities is health insurance for illegal aliens," a claim his opponent's campaign calls "absurd." (10/25/2008) State Sen. John Goedde has two opponents hoping to keep him from a fifth term.The Republican senator from Coeur d'Alene is being challenged once again by Independent Jeremy Boggess, as well as first-time candidate Democrat Ken Howard. (10/24/2008) BOISE – A new campaign commercial targeting Idaho Democratic congressional candidate Walt Minnick has angered a nonpartisan organization that says its candidate survey is misused in the ad. (10/24/2008) BOISE – Four of the candidates for Idaho's open U.S. Senate seat ripped into the absent fifth, GOP candidate Jim Risch, as they debated Thursday on live TV. (10/23/2008) BOISE – The latest campaign ad by an outside group targeting an Idaho race features an image of GOP Rep. Bill Sali with a bunch of sheep and charges he's "hanging with the wrong flock in Washington." (10/22/2008) BOISE – The two major-party candidates for Larry Craig's Senate seat split on the idea of a second economic stimulus package in a debate Tuesday night. (10/21/2008) BOISE – Democratic Idaho Senate candidate Larry LaRocco has two new TV ads out criticizing Republican rival Jim Risch on Social Security and taxes. (10/20/2008) BOISE – When an outspoken conservative goes up against a centrist Republican-turned-Democrat, the result is what Idaho is seeing now: a hot race for North Idaho's seat in Congress.
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