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HART: Voters can do better — much better

| April 12, 2024 1:00 AM

In 2022, voters in Idaho’s District 2 had NO choice in who they wanted to represent them in the Idaho State Senate. That’s because there was only one name on the ballot. Phil Hart ran unopposed and was elected despite a long history of misconduct and fraud.

Hart stopped filing both federal and state income tax returns in 1996. When he was unsuccessful in bringing suit against the IRS and was ordered to sell his Athol home to pay his debt, he attempted to avoid losing it with a string of bankruptcy filings and false claims that other people owned the home. 

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