ACHILLES: Strong and independent
In her July 3 letter, "Vulnerable candidate," Jenny Holmes wants readers to believe Todd Achilles is just a Democrat wearing an independent label. She's right that Todd once served as a Democrat in the Idaho House. She leaves out why he doesn't anymore.
Todd grew up on a family farm, served in the Army as a tank commander, spent more than twenty years building businesses in tech, and now teaches public policy. When a seat opened in the statehouse it was Republican Governor Brad Little who appointed him. He left that seat, and the party, because he reached the same conclusion a lot of us have, that both parties in Washington keep growing the debt, looking out for their donors, and setting us against each other while neither one fights for Idaho. That's not a rebrand. It's the reason he's running as an independent.
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