Hartgen: McGeachin again shows her unfitness for office

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Note: I usually do not present conservative viewpoints on DU; however, this editorial by a retired five-term Republican member of the Idaho House of Representative about the current lieutenant governor and her aspirations for governor is definitely worth a read.

by Stephen Hartgen


That whooshing sound you hear is the air going out of the Janice McGeachin campaign balloon for governor, evident by her ham-handed interchange with the national news network CNN, the resulting deflation in Idaho and new questions about her basic knowledge of state government.

McGeachin calls attention to herself on many occasions. Her picture with two armed militant thugs at her office door immediately following her 2018 election was a clear indication of who she would listen to. And she has.

She followed that with hiring a known law-enforcement hater as a security staffer. The individual, Parish Miller, is the cop critic behind the Idaho Freedom Foundation’s rankings of legislative measures. He had a post in which he effectively said it was okay for citizens to murder police. (DailyBeast, 7/25/2021)

But that was just as her campaign was getting going last spring. These days, she headed a do-nothing, self-created task force to find examples of critical race theory, social engineering and the evils of communism allegedly being taught in Idaho schools. It turned up nothing.

Read more: https://magicvalley.com/opinion/columnists/hartgen-mcgeachin-again-shows-her-unfitness-for-office/article_44dde3be-8c61-5391-9514-1724af495ed5.html

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1. Thanks for this. With her, unfitness is an understatement.