Idaho complaint filed after Forest Service blames shutdown on ‘radical’ Democrats
Former Idaho Rep. Todd Achilles, D-Boise, in the Idaho Legislature in January 2025. Darin Oswald [email protected]
A former Boise Democratic state representative Friday filed a complaint with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel against the chief of the U.S. Forest Service, alleging that the chief was violating a federal law that bars employees in the executive branch from engaging in political activity while on duty.
Todd Achilles, who withdrew from his Idaho House seat to run for U.S. Senate against Sen. Jim Risch as an independent, accused Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz of allowing “overtly partisan” messages to be posted on the Forest Service’s website. Those messages, which blamed the “radical left Democrats” for the government shutdown, broke a federal law called the Hatch Act, Achilles said.
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