Cops push back against ‘un-American’ Ammon Bundy's run for governor

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Veteran law enforcement officials in Idaho are campaigning against Ammon Bundy and other right-wing candidates.

The new political action committee called Defend and Protect Idaho, led by retired lawmen Gary Raney, Paul Wilde and Gary Winegar, is pushing back against "political extremism" in the gubernatorial campaigns of Bundy and Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, reported the Idaho Capital Sun.

"We have to return to civility in politics and stand up against radical extremism, regardless of the source,” said Winegar, the retired chief deputy of the Boise Police Department. “We just need to strongly examine ourselves and our motives and our values and align ourselves with people in our representative republic, of like mind and like values, and, to me, those cannot include violence, intimidation or extremism in any way.”

Nine former sheriffs, police chiefs and other law enforcement officials signed on to the PAC condemning "the actions of fringe extremists whose promotion of political violence threatens the rule of law, public safety and democratic governance in our communities.”

“In the last several years, extremists have become emboldened to threaten our communities and even the law enforcement officers who protect us every day,” said retired Ada County sheriff chief deputy Scott Johnson. “I’m speaking out because this cannot stand in Idaho.”

The group's statement was timed to coincide with a McGeachin campaign event where she hosted antisemitic blogger Michelle Malkin, white supremacist Stew Peters and election conspiracist Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers.

“Janice McGeachin, Ammon Bundy and their followers manipulate Republican values like liberty and independence as weapons against police officers, ignoring the rule of law that keeps us safe,” the PAC stated.

“As former and current members of Idaho’s law enforcement community, we are writing to condemn the actions of fringe extremists whose promotion of political violence threatens the rule of law, public safety and democratic governance in our communities,” the group said in the news release. “Targeting the family homes of police officers, judges and civil servants does not reflect Idaho values. Using the threat of violence to shut down hospitals and emergency rooms in order to score political points is un-American."

“Trying to appeal to white nationalists, Holocaust deniers, and convicted criminals in order to intimidate and bully true conservatives to their extremist point of view is bad for officers of the law, public servants, and ultimately, our society.”
https://www.rawstory.com/ammon-bundy-idaho-2657275351/

Must be pretty bad when the cops won't even support a rightwing candidate. Bundy and his dad should have been locked up a long time ago.
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Re: Cops push back against ‘un-American’ Ammon Bundy's run for governor

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Idaho is conservative not extreme right wing, a lot of people are Evangelical or Mormon. The Bundys aren't mainstream Mormon, they follow a different interpretation. There are right wing groups in ID, like there are right wing groups in CA.

Brad Little the incumbent ID governor will be reelected. May 17th is the Rep. primary.
https://idahodispatch.com/2022poll/
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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Trump-backed Idaho governor candidate vows 'Christ will reign' if she's elected

Idaho's right-wing Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin vowed that "Christ will reign" if she is elected governor.

The lieutenant governor is looking to unseat incumbent Gov. Brad Little, also a Republican, and she's drawn the endorsement of former president Donald Trump after she defended him during an appearance on Tucker Carlson's program on Fox News, and she has campaigned with election conspiracists and white supremacists such as Stew Peters.

"God calls us to pick up the sword and fight, and Christ will reign in the state of Idaho," McGeachin told Peters on his streaming program.

McGeachin has also associated with members of right-wing militia groups, including the Oath Keepers and Three Percenters, that were involved in the U.S. Capitol riot, and retired law enforcement officers came out in opposition to her "political extremism."
https://www.rawstory.com/janice-mcgeachin-idaho/

This is another one that that they oppose.

As my SIL that lives in North Logan, Utah says the LDS and other extreme Right wing in Idaho makes the extreme LDS followers in Southern Utah look like flaming liberals.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.-Huxley
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis Brandeis,

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TrueTexan wrote: Mon May 09, 2022 11:20 am
Trump-backed Idaho governor candidate vows 'Christ will reign' if she's elected

Idaho's right-wing Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin vowed that "Christ will reign" if she is elected governor.

The lieutenant governor is looking to unseat incumbent Gov. Brad Little, also a Republican, and she's drawn the endorsement of former president Donald Trump after she defended him during an appearance on Tucker Carlson's program on Fox News, and she has campaigned with election conspiracists and white supremacists such as Stew Peters.

"God calls us to pick up the sword and fight, and Christ will reign in the state of Idaho," McGeachin told Peters on his streaming program.

McGeachin has also associated with members of right-wing militia groups, including the Oath Keepers and Three Percenters, that were involved in the U.S. Capitol riot, and retired law enforcement officers came out in opposition to her "political extremism."
https://www.rawstory.com/janice-mcgeachin-idaho/

This is another one that that they oppose.

As my SIL that lives in North Logan, Utah says the LDS and other extreme Right wing in Idaho makes the extreme LDS followers in Southern Utah look like flaming liberals.

Northern Idaho has some extremist groups, remember that was the site of Ruby Ridge the feds fuck up operation in 1992 which just energized those groups. Not all are LDS, some are militia and other types of extremists.
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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highdesert wrote: Sun May 08, 2022 11:02 am Idaho is conservative not extreme right wing, a lot of people are Evangelical or Mormon. The Bundys aren't mainstream Mormon, they follow a different interpretation. There are right wing groups in ID, like there are right wing groups in CA.

Brad Little the incumbent ID governor will be reelected. May 17th is the Rep. primary.
https://idahodispatch.com/2022poll/
Not sure about that.
Far-left agitators never showed up. What actually unfolded in Coeur d'Alene was a tense stretch of nights when armed vigilantes and Second Amendment supporters converged on the city's quaint downtown.
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/17/92446116 ... or-answers
As an outspoken progressive advocate from Coeur d’Alene in northern Idaho, she’s grown accustomed to local animosity.

But when online messages suggested she be put in a body bag, bullet casings appeared on her friends’ front porches, and armed civilians — some of them members of unofficial militia groups — began patrolling the streets downtown, she packed her bags and left her birthplace, taking her 13-year-old son with her to an undisclosed location.
https://www.eastidahonews.com/2020/08/n ... rth-idaho/
The language and images may be familiar, but the purported gathering of neo-Nazis in North Idaho this weekend is unlike anything Tony Stewart’s seen before.
https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/north ... b5539.html

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Northern Idaho, western Montana, eastern Washington have militia and neo-Nazis groups and there are more in FL and CA. They are small, they often splinter as leaders lose power or die. The left obsesses on them like the right obsesses on antifa, communist and anarchist groups. The Bundy's are one group that is an offshoot of the LDS church but as TT said there are many in Utah, Idaho and Arizona.
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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