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Sandpoint, ID

Apr 3, 2008

ID Senate votes 20-15 on primary bill to help GOP chairman

“We should pass legislation based on its merits.”

The state Senate voted 20-15 Wednesday to make public the party ballot choices of voters in Idaho's primary elections.

Majority Republicans who voted for the bill said they did so to help GOP Chairman Kirk Sullivan survive a challenge from conservatives who want him replaced at the party's state convention in Sandpoint in June.

The House declined to take up the bill before the Legislature adjourned Wednesday. But the vote immediately drew barbs from critics who said the Senate should rise above issues of political expediency. Read more

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