News & Q&A

I fully agree with Terri.

We had an opportunity to put medical marijuana on the ballot. It failed to make the ballot. This is not that.

This is about controlling who gets to make the decision.

Politicians need to be responsive to voters, not insulated from them, which is exactly what HJR 4 would do.

I think this is a continuation of the invasion of our personal privacy and liberty that expanded with the Patriot Act.

They took a one-time horrific occurrence and a tremendous amount of fear generated by it and passed legislation that expanded the government's surveillance powers.

That includes everything from your phone to your financial transactions.

I work for a financial institution. We file a lot of reports for the government based on how you move your money.

And now we're up to the point where you leave your home and the government can record where you go.

I agree with Terri. It's not going to stop until we make it stop.

As a country, we made a strong commitment to public education, and it has served the United States well.

We've had decades of being the envy of the world. We educated our children well. Our parents and grandparents received good educations.

I was fortunate to go to an exceptional public school, and that's a lot more difficult now.

There's a primary duty of government to educate children through public education. It is not a duty of government to fund private education.

I've occasionally chosen alternatives to public education and put a couple of my children in private schools from time to time. We homeschooled for a while. There aren't too many forms of education we haven't tried.

But that was my choice. As a parent, I exercised my right to make those choices.

As a government, we need to fund public education, and fund it reasonably well. This is an investment in the future.

My wife had an ectopic pregnancy. She came within an hour of dying. There are states where she would have died, and very possibly this state.

I look at Proposition 1 a little differently than most people. I view it as a reset because it's not a constitutional amendment.

We're going to get rid of the current extremist position, and I think that's a notification to the legislature.

The legislature will revisit this, even if it passes overwhelmingly. My hope is that whatever follows will be considerably more reasonable and won't put women at risk.

Idaho is a very conservative state. We're not going to be California, and I think it's fair to recognize that.

I think people should look at Proposition 1 as a reset.

I spent a lot of time listening to Uncle Milton Friedman out of the Chicago School. He was an extremely conservative economist, which went along with the school I was attending at the time—a very conservative school.

There's a place for reasonable regulation, which is not what we have now. We have unfettered vulture capitalism.

When I went to graduate school, we studied stakeholders, not shareholders. Stakeholders.

We've got a lot of stakeholders, but the shares are largely owned by the exceptionally wealthy. So it continues that pattern of returns to capital versus returns to labor.

Most of us actually have to show up at work to pay a mortgage. There's a certain group that doesn't need to do that.

The system has tilted wildly in favor of large wealth, to the point that we're seeing extraordinary concentrations of wealth.

And we're seeing the oligarchs take over. It's very clear what's going on in Washington, and it's filtering down.