Well, it's over for me, I'm done. Finished. Fin. Finito. Abgeten. Acabado.

[Major Hogwash]

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I voted today.
By absentee mail-in ballot.
Straight Democratic ticket.

Now I can get a good night's sleep knowing that I did everything I can to right the course this nation is on.
Even if for some odd reason I should pass away unexpectedly between now and election day, I will sleep sound tonight because I know my votes will still count.

I didn't know until earlier this month that the FBI is currently conducting an investigation of our Republican Governor.
Turns out that several years after Governor Otter gave a very lucrative state contract to a private prison management company to manage the new minimum security prison built a few miles to the south of Boise, that they gave him rather large campaign contributions just 4 years ago, when he ran for his 2nd term as governor.
Kickbacks are illegal, as far as I know.
Pretty sure that's what the law says about kickbacks.
But, hell, a little ol' thing like that wasn't enough to cause the state's Republican Attorney General a case of heartburn.
Because he didn't even look in to it.

However, after the local newspaper wrote a few articles about the way the private prison company had been managing that prison, they came under scrutiny for breaking various, numerous laws.
So, what did the Governor do?
The Governor intervened, and somehow he managed to have the official investigation into those wrongdoings stalled, and kept an investigation from ever being started . . for nearly a full year!

The private prison management company claimed they was innocent, dont'cha know.
And for some coincidental reason, decided they didn't want to renew the contract when it came to an end this past spring.
They were assessed a slap on the wrist, paid a paltry fine, and some of the Republicans even scolded that company in public.
Can you imagine that?
They sounded like a group of Gomer Pyles saying, "Shame, shame, shame", all wagging their fingers at that company.

Naturally a few questions about the ethics of the Governor's handling of this incident were then raised.
So, the Republicans in the state legislature looked in to it.
You see, since Idaho is only 1 of 2 states in the entire United States that does not have an independent ethics committee not tied to members of the state assembly or legislature, any wrongdoings by the Republicans have to be approved by the Republicans.
Err, I mean, investigated.
Err, I mean cleared.

Nevertheless, after nearly all of the Republicans in the state legislature agreed that it could have been handled better, there was nothing to see here, the Governor is the Governor, after all.
And the Governor is the one who decides who gets those lucrative, no-bid state contracts.
However, after the state's Republican Attorney General came out publicly and cleared the Governor of any wrongdoing, the smell must have reached clear to Washington, D.C.
Otherwise, the FBI wouldn't be looking into it!

This is how Republicans are . . they are so freakin' bold, that they don't give a damn if they are being investigated by the FBI while they are currently conducting their own re-election campaign.

The average man would know better, and he would simply be content with having been the Governor of a state for 2 full terms, and then he would quietly drop out of the public eye until the FBI is done investigating him.
But, make no mistake about it . . Republicans are NOT the average man, they are greedy!
They want more, and more, and more!
More control, more power, and more money, lots and lots of money!

Like Joe Pesci's character said in the movie "Casino" --- "It's all about the fucking dollar."

You have to remember this is the state that gave the nation Representative George Hansen.
This is the state that gave the nation Representative Helen Chenoweth.
This is the state that gave the nation Representative Bill Sali.
This is the state that gave the nation Senator Larry Craig.
All of them were Republicans, and all of them were ginormous hypocrites.
All of them were caught breaking the law and then acted like they didn't!
And then they started screaming their innocence to the high heavens, hoping that someone would eventually save their ass from being kicked out of office.

Because there are only 2 ways to get rid of Republican rats like this . . vote for a Democrat for their office, or drive them out of office.