Right Mind (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bill London writes in yesterday’s Moscow-Pullman Daily News : Bill Sali did it again. Sali, the Republican congressional representative for northern Idaho, just sent us another campaign letter. And as usual, he charged us (the taxpayers) with the postage. Sali could pass on the mailing costs to us since he tried to disguise the letter as a request for our opinions about energy policy. However, his...
43rd State Blues: Democracy for Ida (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
I'm surprised no one has written about this yet. Evidently Bill Sali's campaign has yet to file their quarterly FEC report . They're now over a week late on that (it was due 15 July). According to Sali's spokesman Wayne Hoffman, this is due to "technical glitches." As treasurer for Debbie Holmes' campaign in the 2nd CD - which is subject to the exact same reporting requirements as Sali's camp - I...
Right Mind (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
From the FRC : Recently in a Special Orders session, Bill Sali exposed the fact that U.S. taxpayers are subsidizing the abortion industry to the tune of several hundred million dollars each year. Although polls continually show that the majority of Americans oppose government funding of abortions, organizations that promote and perform abortions get large sums of taxpayer money in the form of state...
DennisMansfield.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Idahoans have never been attracted by big DC political campaigns. It's just not in our DNA. Typical national Dem or GOP campaign strategists do their third-party "media buys" from the East Coast in a milky-white homogeneuos fashion, photoshoping the local-yokle's...
Adam's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Kevin Richert has a piece pointing to Congressman Sali’s sponsorship of a Bill calling for the U.S. to get out of the U.N. Because the Bill has only 4 co-sponsors and is unlikely to get a hearing. Of course, the fact is that there are thousands of Bills in Congress that are introduced and don’t get [...]
Adam's Blog (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Rep. Paul Braun (R-GA), one of the candidates on My Slatecard is almost certainly on his way back to Washington after a 71-29% victory in the Republican Primary in a solid Red district. Braun applies a four-fold test to legislation, “Is it constitutional and a proper function of government? Is it morally correct? Is it something [...]
DennisMansfield.com (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Those who read this blog know of my support for Bill Sali. He and I have been friends for almost 18 years. When he was first elected to the Legislature, I met him there, when I was a lobbyist with...
The Stupid Shall Be Punished (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008 | US
I went to a hurriedly-scheduled "town hall" meeting today with my Congressman, Bill Sali . Long-time readers will remember that I'm not a big fan of Bill Sali; I feel that our district deserves a Congressman who is able to work with people to get things done, rather than just embarrass himself with insensitive gaffes and be on the losing end of a bunch of 403-18 votes. The meeting started about 10...
The MountainGoat Report (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
By now you've probably heard that Congressman Bill Sali held a last minute town hall meeting in Nampa on Saturday. You may have even read Bubblehead's account of the meeting...
The MountainGoat Report (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
The long holiday weekend didn't contain much in the way of good news for Idaho Congressman Bill Sali. In towns large and small all around the 1st District ominous signs...
The MountainGoat Report (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
The following is the text from an Idaho Democratic Party press release: The jig’s up. It’s well past time for Representative Bill Sali to stop being fiscally reckless. Sali should...
43rd State Blues: Democracy for Ida (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
From the Walt Minnick for Congress campaign: The Minnick for Congress campaign issued a strong rebuke to Bill Sali for his vote today against bipartisan legislation aimed at lowering gas prices by preventing unscrupulous oil companies from gouging drivers. Moreover, Sali held a "town-hall" tele-conference this evening where he never once mentioned his vote. read more »
The MountainGoat Report (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Congressman Bill Sali stood on the floor of the U.S. House on June 3, speaking in support of National Men's Health Week. Strangely enough, it was all about gas and...
SayUncle (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
You’ll recall ATF’s Always Think Forfeiture brouhaha. Well, thanks to their boneheaded ass-hattery, comes a Bill by Congressman Bill Sali: Sali said he will pursue legislation to prevent the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) from restarting the marketing program. These guys continue their record of stellar performance!
43rd State Blues: Democracy for Ida (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
According to a previous staffer of a Congressman, Bill Sali's vote against the timber counties of Northern Idaho stems from an election year stunt to make Democrats look bad: I'm pretty sure that this is strategic. Somebody in the logging industry has convinced them that now is the time to pin this mess on the democrats and let the counties bleed out. At that point they will point to the democratically...
