Misinformation campaign filled with vicious lies

If you’ve received junk mail recently slamming Boundary and Bonner County’s native son, state Sen. Jim Woodward, you can expect to receive a flurry of more as Idaho’s primary election gets nearer. This vicious and lying misinformation campaign is a tactic being used like never before in our great state of Idaho.

The group behind these far right junk mail campaigns, operating under the banner of “freedom” and their use of lies and propaganda by the Idaho Freedom Foundation, has done more to undermine the credibility of the Idaho Republican Party than any other group during my lifetime.

Their dark misinformation, outrageous claims and smears directed at those Republican elected officials who dare to vote based on their own intellectual understanding has done more damage to the Idaho Legislature than any other sleazy political lobbying group in history.

These self-appointed comrades came to power and took advantage of the complacency of the Idaho voter, which was elevated when they were successful in making the Republican Primary a closed one. Thousands of Idahoans who considered themselves conservatives were suddenly barred from voting in the Republican primary because they did not feel it necessary to formally join the Republican Party.

It is too bad libel and slander laws make telling blatant lies about political candidates outside from their protection, which most people don’t understand. Since it is “mostly” legal to freely lie, Idahoans are being flooded across the state with attack material as vicious as routinely found in any communist nation.

DARRELL KERBY

Bonners Ferry