I wish that were the case, but our area is under consideration for annexation AND the main body of employers is in the city proper. They have far more control than I would like - especially since I can't vote to replace them.

City council has no authority over you, I presume, other than spreading the socialist virus to the county?

"Per the senate, the legislature was called by the governor into special session and the purpose of that session is limited."

But the legality of such limits isn't founded in the State Constitution. And there is quite a bit of noise that they will address all of this in the next regular session in a couple of months.

You won't see demonstrations around the governor's house (unless they're bused in from Portland). Idahoans are too peaceful and proper for that. Around the Statehouse? Yup - several. I have, however, seen an open petition to recall the governor (as well as the Boise mayor and a city councilwoman). I don't think he'll survive the next election TBH because he's really stepped in it. He made the totally cowardly move of not only denying that the special session could address his overreach, but he sidestepped his responsibilities by passing the buck to the leftist County commissioners to determine health policy. Fortunately, they have no teeth so their policies are in large part ignored by most people - except the sheeple. I'm in the county rather than the city so I pay slightly lower property taxes but it also means I don't get to vote for city council. Trade-offs.

Discussion on the Senate's action here:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politi...

Per the senate, the legislature was called by the governor into special session and the purpose of that session is limited.
Yes, I think they are cowards, too, Blarman.
The people have to make enough noise to get the governor to act rationally. Surround his house and demonstrate for days against his policies.

Unfortunately, they didn't have the balls to actually make this a law and end the Governor's unConstitutional takeover. The Senate wouldn't take up the resolution and instead weaseled out by saying they had talked to Attorney General Lawrence Wasden (corrupt) who told them that despite plain language in Idaho Code that the Legislature didn't have the power to end the governor's lockdown unless they were in normal session...

As I have written previously here in Arizona gun owners are buying up ammunition by the truckload and first-time gun owners are making reservations at my local firearms range for training. Flagstaff and Tucson have turned Left and Phoenix is split. Arizona is experiencing an influx of Cali refugees. Conservatives and gun owners are adopting the phrase "Don't California My Arizona".

I personally do not like this restriction business. I have given it a lot of thought and I think (my personal opinion) most everyone was so shocked by the orders and restrictions (which has never happened to us before) they just agreed to everything.

The "expand Idaho" plan would basically reduce Oregon to metro Portland, Salem, and Eugene, giving Idaho the entire coastline.

As for California, I once did a plan for partitioning that state too, that would give both parts a coast. It goes like this. "Left California" gets all the coastal counties from Sonoma through Los Angeles, plus Alameda, Contra Costa, and Santa Clara counties and the LA-basin portions of Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Everything else is "Right California", so it has two coastlines: one north of Point Reyes and one that covers Orange and San Diego counties. The Right also gets the Central Valley, the Sierra, and part of the Wine Country, while the left gets all the major cities. And both states are contiguous.

I saw this as well, and thought how well done. Just present the image of real normalcy, not new normalcy, and just let it sink in for all its optical and uplifting value. No need to even mention it. The media will fall right into it, go ballistic, and repeat the plain in sight message over and over. And they are. Brilliant.

!!! For a couple of decades, being a gold and silver geologist in Nevada, I have always tongue in cheek advocated just this. The plan: Dump Clark County (now maybe add Washoe), let California have it, trade for far Northern California.

This particular political entity, be it still a State or a new country, would have a salt water port, timber, water, gold silver, lithium, copper, barite, lead, zinc, geothermal energy in abundance in the Great Basin. Reopen the Carson City Mint and issue real money coinage, encourage eastern Washington, Oregon, Idaho and perhaps some other adjacent entities to join and redraw the border with California to the Sierra crest (actually within the Ca State Constitution).

Right, tongue in cheek long sore from biting down.....

While he didn't say last night that it is time to immediately end all covid restrictions, the left was terrified by his optical message when the President was observed by his audience 99% without masks and sitting right next to each other. Living free and independent without fear is not the left's desire right now, nor has it ever been.

A red state with a Pacific port would be very positive for trade.

Some people just need to stop living, and he is one of them

Sisolak has also had his eye on ruining the casino industry. He had to stop short of total and complete shutdown, because he realized the casinos were funding the government here, and he ran out of money

In 2018 Trump stopped and gave a rally in Elko for Adam Laxalt for Governor. I was there. Sisolak won, and has not stopped punishing Elko County.

Recall Sisolak efforts got squashed during the lockdown. Petition to extend deadline for signatures was shot down - by Sisolak.

Take all of Nevada, too except for Clark and Washoe Counties. Lots of gold, silver, and geothermal! Start minting real money again.

I moved out West at age 22 from New England in 1977 for obvious reasons. First Arizona, but the Californians were ruining it, then Nevada, then Wyoming, then Nevada. Nevada was still the best for Libertarian freedoms and I always considered the Sierra Nevada just as much a people shadow as a rain shadow. That is gone now. Nevada has always had its fights because of the preponderance of "federal land", but now having been blue waved in 2018, it has gotten really bad. Governor Sisolak is actively punishing the red counties, particularly in Northern Nevada, and now the legislature has set their sights on taxing to death the mining industry - an industry deemed "essential" on one hand (apparently so they could loot it), but also produces a fifth of the worlds gold and silver production. The only sound money. Wait to go pinheads.

There is also a movement to expand Idaho to include rural areas of Oregon, Washington, and even far-north California. This would create a red state large enough that it would be sure to stay red (it would not include any cities along the I-5 corridor).

Thumbs up!!!!! YES, finally a break through..

It won't be possible as long as the two parties control selection of the candidates for office, and consistently select the ones they can control.

There is a great port in Guantanamo Bay.

I agree. The repub deep state people were real disappointments. We need more intellectually rational people in government (maybe not possible though)

he is in love with california, washington, and oregon. I think we could take all those governors and put them on a cruise ship that somehow never gets to any port.

Unfortunately Idaho has also been getting a lot of leftists from the Hollywood gang, specifically in Sun Valley, Ketchum, and Sandpoint. Idaho has been labeled the "New North Hollywood."

NC had been going downhill for 3 decades as NYer's took over the tobacco business and much of the beachfront property was bought by wealthy with Wall St bonuses and leftist beliefs.
UNC and Duke have been producing socialist graduates for 40 years and hiring racists as professors like this one. https://www.dukechronicle.com/article...
Asheville's city council recently voted to pay reparations for black residents. I'm sorry you have had to deal with those irrational childish fools.