You’re among the first to know - the lawsuit has been filed which will finally allow Idaho Republicans to select their own candidates in primary elections. Rod Beck, former Idaho Senate Majority Leader, issued the announcement in a press release this afternoon.

A rule establishing party registration was adopted in the Idaho Republican central committee meeting in June, after heated debate, and surprise opposition by some long-time prominent Republicans. However, it was impossible for them to refute the hard evidence that Democrats regularly instruct their members to vote in Republican primaries to force the selection of the most liberal GOP candidates.

Remember when Bingham County Democrat Chairman Beverly Beach sent out a thank-you letter to her party faithful who helped defeat the more conservative GOP candidate, Steve Adams, in favor of proven liberal Joe Cannon? And the Idaho Falls newspaper has carried several very interesting letters to the editor which carefully instruct Democrats how to request a Republican ballot in the primaries, and how to switch parties to get elected. And the Blackfoot paper carried similar letters.

(Remember our former Speaker of the Idaho House, Bruce Newcomb, who failed time after time as a Democrat to get elected? He was his county Democrat chairman. When he switched the “D” to an “R”, he finally won a seat in the Idaho House.)

You will want to know every detail of this lawsuit, and it’s all available at Grassroots Idaho GOP. Bookmark it now so you can check back for the latest news on the lawsuit, Beck et al V. Ysursa Case number: 1:07-cv-229, filed in US Federal Court in Boise.

The time for the restoration of our Constitutional right of association under the First Amendment has come.

Check out previous posts on this subject by searching our website for “closed primaries”.

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