OPINION: Presidential Caucus fact check
Brent Regan
“I’m a lifetime Republican and I’m really worried I won’t be able to participate in the Presidential Caucus,” said Jim, an 89-year-old combat veteran during a call with Idaho GOP Chairman Dorothy Moon. Jim called the state party headquarters after reading Sandy Patano’s “Opinion: Idaho GOP's Presidential Caucus confusion,” an OpEd full of misleading information, half-truths and outright lies.
One of the few facts in the article is that Patano is a founding member of North Idaho “Republicans” or NIR, a shadowy organization not officially part of Idaho’s Republican Party. NIR was fined the maximum amount allowed for campaign finance reporting violations by the Secretary of State and they received a Cease and Desist letter from the Republican National Committee’s General Council to stop them from falsely using the Republican brand.
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