Mark Schmitt has some interesting information on Larry Craig’s appointed successor, Jim Risch. When Hurricane Katrina hit, Risch was serving as the interim governor of Idaho. He had this to say:
“Here in Idaho, we couldn’t understand how people [in Louisiana] could sit around on the kerbs waiting for the federal government to come and do something. We had a dam break in 1976, but we didn’t whine about it. We got out our backhoes and we rebuilt the roads and replanted the fields and got on with our lives. That’s the culture here. Not waiting for the federal government to bring you drinking water. In Idaho there would have been entrepreneurs selling the drinking water.”
Of course, as Schmitt notes, the Idahoans did nothing of the sort. The federal government cleaned up their mess.
We need to help Larry LaRocco defeat this guy. The last thing we need is another entrenched wingnut senator.
