From Bryan Fischer, Idaho Values Alliance

This just in: Sen. Brad Little has been selected by Gov. Butch Otter to serve as Idaho’s next lieutenant governor. Sen. Little is a moderate Republican, who voted against the marriage amendment more than any other Idaho legislator in state history.

Sen. Little voted against the marriage amendment no less than five times, and for it just once – the last time it came to the senate floor, on Valentine’s Day in 2006.

In the third – and successful – effort to get the marriage amendment through the Idaho legislature, Sen. Little voted against it in committee on Friday and for it on the floor on Tuesday.

Well-placed sources told me at the time that he changed his vote when others in legislative leadership took him aside and said he’d better get his mind right over the weekend about his floor vote if he wanted to have a future in Idaho politics. The message apparently was received.

Since Sen. Little represents District 11 (think Emmett), which is considerably more conservative than he is, we can hope that he will be replaced by someone with a more conservative philosophy on social and fiscal matters.

Thus the potential exists that his departure from the legislature will actually strengthen the senate, which far too often has been the place where good, socially conservative bills go to die.

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