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Idaho’s Governor is taking a different tack with transportation funding after a bruising legislative session. Boise State University Professor Emeritus Jim Weatherby provided commentary to several media outlets including the Spokesman Review:

The governor’s move is a surprising one, according to longtime Idaho political observer Jim Weatherby, political science professor emeritus at Boise State University. “It would seem to me to make more sense, maybe not politically, when you’re talking about raising taxes, but in terms of public safety and addressing our deteriorating roads, that those issues be laid on the table and discussed during the campaign,” he said, “before candidates again, as they did in the last election, lock themselves into a position of opposing any tax increase.”

Weatherby said, “It seems to me it has the potential of a rerun of the session we just had.”

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