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I'm not much of a mind reader, but unless there is gross corruption, negligence of his constituents, or his challenges to his conservative voting record, Mr. Labrador looks strong.Republican Raúl Labrador has represented Idaho's 1st congressional district since 2011. Labrador won election to a second term in 2012, defeating former NFL player Jimmy Farris with 63% of the vote.
Labrador was rumored to be considering a run for governor in 2014, but has announced he will run for re-election instead.[1]
Reed McCandless, who received 19% in the 2012 Republican primary, is challenging Labrador again. Also running in the Republican primary are Rathdrum resident Sean Blackwell, Boise resident Lisa Marie, and Eagle resident Michael Greenway.[2]
Although Farris initially expressed interest in a rematch against Labrador, in July 2013 he told the Idaho Statesman he was leaning towards a run for a Boise-based seat in the Idaho Legislature instead.[3] In August 2013 State Representative Shirley Ringo of Moscow announced she is running for the Democratic nomination.[4] Hayden resident Ryan Barone is also running in the Democratic primary
I looked up the race and found this in Wikipedia, Random Variable:
I'm not much of a mind reader, but unless there is gross corruption, negligence of his constituents, or his challenges to his conservative voting record, Mr. Labrador looks strong.Republican Raúl Labrador has represented Idaho's 1st congressional district since 2011. Labrador won election to a second term in 2012, defeating former NFL player Jimmy Farris with 63% of the vote.
Labrador was rumored to be considering a run for governor in 2014, but has announced he will run for re-election instead.[1]
Reed McCandless, who received 19% in the 2012 Republican primary, is challenging Labrador again. Also running in the Republican primary are Rathdrum resident Sean Blackwell, Boise resident Lisa Marie, and Eagle resident Michael Greenway.[2]
Although Farris initially expressed interest in a rematch against Labrador, in July 2013 he told the Idaho Statesman he was leaning towards a run for a Boise-based seat in the Idaho Legislature instead.[3] In August 2013 State Representative Shirley Ringo of Moscow announced she is running for the Democratic nomination.[4] Hayden resident Ryan Barone is also running in the Democratic primary
Idaho residents are basically very independent-minded and family-first folk, and as a Wyoming and Oregon resident for 45 years, I can affirm that Idahoans are very good neighbors and never do their neighbors any wrong, to the best of my knowledge. I wish them well as they choose a representative that keeps their state and its people in the forefront of their voting. The rugged beauty of Idaho is just awesome, too. What a credit to the USA Idaho is.
The Second Congressional District is also up for grabs on November 4.
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Well if it worked before use it for Immigration Reform, raising the minumim wage, and extending the unemployment insurance benefits:
Labrador on CNN - YouTube
Bottom line is that this district in Idaho is vulnerable ONLY with a weak Republican AND being in a good year for Democrats.
There is basically only one way in which this could become competitive:
1. Obamacare becomes much more popular.
2. The economy picks up steam and unemployment falls below 6% (and real unemployment, U-6 I think, also falls at the same rate as the U-3)
3. Raul Labrador pulls a Todd Akin.
Already, Reps. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas, Raul Labrador of Idaho and Matt Salmon of Arizona, all of whom voted for last years budget, said they are rethinking their support, staying undecided because the plan calls for spending of $1.014 trillion in fiscal year 2015, which is higher than they like.
Labrador added that although the budget is loaded with conservative priorities, he has little faith that leaders will try to implement any of them.
Theres also a lack of commitment from the party, from the Republican members of Congress, to actually doing what the Ryan budget says, he said. I came here to actually get things done, not just vote on a document that is just for show.
Another day, another right trampled
April 13, 2014
By Congressman Raul Labrador
Nearly every day, the Obama administration announces a new policy or regulation that undermines our Constitutional rights and stifles our economy. The EPA, in particular, has put out some egregious regulations that have a direct and negative impact on the people of Idaho.
We saw that recently when, on March 25, the EPA proposed an aggressive expansion of its regulatory authority over local bodies of waters and surrounding property. Under the Clean Water Act (CWA) which was first passed in 1972 the EPA has authority over traditionally navigable waters. While that term was slightly ambiguous, for decades, the EPA understood there were certain lines it couldnt cross. Now, the EPA wants to cross those lines. Specifically, it wants to remove the word navigable from its enforcement of the CWA and change how waterways are defined in order to capture virtually all land in America.
The most obvious effect of the EPAs plan is that it would increase the number of waters subject to federal water quality standards, adding costs to Idahos farmers and small business owners. But it goes beyond that.
If the EPAs plan is implemented, their bureaucrats would have jurisdiction over virtually the whole country. Basically, if water can flow on your property, you might find yourself subject to EPA control. Virtually every farmer, rancher and homeowner in America might have to apply for federal permits to do anything on their land.
To prevent this disaster, I am a cosponsor of HR 3377, the Defense of Environment and Property Act. This bill would stop the EPA power grab by clarifying existing law under the Clean Water Act.
Bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. should not have regulatory power over puddles, ditches, and other water sources that have no connection to interstate commerce. Its time for the EPA needs to be reined in. I am committed to protecting Idahos property owners and imposing common sense on an agency that desperately needs it.
Wheres the Environment in Senator Pauls Defense of Environment and Property Act?
Stacey Detwiler
What part of the environment does Senator Paul (R-KY) believe he is defending with his Defense of Environment and Property Act of 2012 (S. 2122)?
Its certainly not clean water.
In the latest iteration of a dirty water bill this Congress, Senator Pauls legislation drastically limits the scope of the Clean Water Act. Ignoring science and even the status quo, the bill leaves the majority of stream miles in the U.S. unprotected the small streams and wetlands that create our mighty rivers like the Cumberland or the Ohio that flow through the Senators own state.
Senator Pauls bill is an attack on clean water for people in Kentucky and across the country. S. 2122 would prevent Administrative efforts to restore protections to small streams and wetlands. It forces the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers to get specific permission from states before doing anything to control pollution or protect land and water resources essentially disrupting the careful balance of state and federal responsibility for land and water management.
Science has consistently demonstrated that what we do upstream impacts downstream waters. Filling in headwater streams at mountaintop removal mining sites degrades river health downstream and exacerbates flooding. With more than 117 million Americans relying upon small streams and wetlands as a source for their drinking water, it is critical to protect them.
Dirty, polluted waters create no value economic or environmental for communities. Not many people want to swim in a river polluted by coal ash or fish in a lake contaminated with PCBs.
If your rivers are too polluted for swimming, your lakes are too dirty for fishing, and your drinking water supplies are contaminated is that good for your property?
- See more at: Wheres the Environment in Senator Pauls Defense of Environment and Property Act? | American Rivers
Tell Your Representatives to Cosponsor S. 2122, the Defense of the Environment and Property Act of 2012
BY Matt Kibbe
Dear FreedomWorks members, As one of our million-plus FreedomWorks members nationwide, I urge you to contact your senator and ask him or her to cosponsor S. 2122, the Defense of Environment and Property Act of 2012. Introduced by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the bill would reform federal water policy to protect land owners. The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers are dangerously out of control. The Defense of Environment and Property Act of 2012 would rein in the powers of the EPA and protect the Constitutional rights of landowners.
Just prior to Citizens for a Sound Economy morphing into Freedomworks and Americans for Prosperity Dick Armey was CEO/President and Tom Posey was Treasurer, with David H. Koch and C. Boyden Gray sharing seats at the the Board of Directors. Tom Posey was the bagman in the Iran-Contra Scandal transporting money and weapons to the Contras in Nicaragua through his mercenary group Civilian Military Assistance. During this moment C. Boyden Gray was heir to American Tobacco Company fortune participating with CSE, Armey, Koch, and Posey carrying out activities to further the 50-year RICO Organized Crime tobacco frauds. It is significant looking forward that this organization tolerated and approved employee-officers who engaged the overthrow of a popular democratically-elected government.
Congressman Raul Labrador made a similar call for unity. He spoke of the 11th Commandment, a notion created by former president Ronald Reagan. He explained it as an understanding that we should speak no ill of Republicans, he said.
"I want you to do everything that is necessary so we can keep Idaho red, and we can keep it the most conservative state in the union," he said.
Jeb Bush must have known the flak he would take when he said illegal immigrants who come to America to support their families were guilty of an act of love.
Sure enough, critics pounced. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said it isnt positive and beneficial to break the law in search of a better life. Rep. Raul Labrador of Idaho, who has a big say over immigration policy in the House, called it pandering. And in tweets and Facebook posts, the conservative former governor was denounced as a RINO Republican in Name Only.
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