BIZ: Cut the endorsement hose

Nov. 15 marked the reconvening of Idaho’s Runaway Legislature. This assemblage of power-hungry rubes didn’t limit themselves to a vote on Representative Giddings or even focus in on a single bill aimed at micromanaging Idaho’s business community.

Legislators’ lust for power resulted in no fewer than three dozen bills filling the agenda. A review of the list revealed a large helping of grandstanding sprinkled with premature bills — bills that addressed issues that don’t yet exist.

All of this was presented on a platter overflowing its boundaries as the power seekers don’t seem content with regulating women’s bodies, teachers, the practice of medicine and local government. Now they’ve set their sights on business.

There’s a remedy for this. That remedy is for the business community to announce there will be no more endorsements and not one more penny contributed to the re-election campaigns of those legislators who seek to impose their strict ideology on the rest of us.

My message to Idaho’s business community is: Not one endorsement! Not one penny! Stick to that promise for 2022.

MARY OLLIE

Bonners Ferry