Most of us want our elected representatives to be hard-working, effective, and responsive to us, their constituents. Our current state representative from District 1A is just that.
In the debate about Representative Sauter’s failure to accurately represent the Republicans of North Idaho, we seem to have forgotten that he was unable to garner support from even 40% of LD1 Republican voters in last year’s May primary. The only reason he was able to win the seat is that he drew substantial support from Democrats who had been urged to register as Republicans for the primary by front groups like North Idaho Voter Services (please see their March 10, 2022, email suggesting just that) and there were four other primary candidates splitting the vote.
Mr. McDermott’s defense of Representative Mark Sauter in recent letters to the editor follows the same pattern of hollow, ad hominem misdirection as all the other talking points from NIVS, the Bonner County Democrats, and their allied Shawn Keough acolyte front groups.
When the Bonner County Republican Central Committee recently issued a vote of no confidence in Representative Mark Sauter, the key to our decision was whether members of the BCRCC have confidence that Representative Sauter will support the most significant and key principles of the Idaho Republican Party’s platform.