4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | Thank you for joining us. |
0:01.0 | Oh, you bet. |
0:02.0 | Glad to be here. |
0:03.0 | Absolutely. |
0:04.0 | Let everybody know who you are and what you do in the state of Idaho. |
0:06.0 | Okay. |
0:07.0 | Well, I am a state senator. |
0:09.0 | One of the 35 state senators in Idaho, I'm from District 5, which is Laitau County and Benawa |
0:16.7 | County, which is kind of unique because it's a split district in the sense that Benawa County is extremely conservative and |
0:24.3 | Laita tends to be not so conservative. I ran for sheriff here in 2016 and narrowly |
0:31.9 | lost that I thought I was done with running for office and |
0:35.9 | then was asked to run by the Republican Party in this district, asked to run for Senate because they had a young man drop out. |
0:45.8 | He was the nominee and he dropped out of the race. |
0:50.2 | So I said, okay, I gave it some thought and said I'll do it we ran and we won |
0:56.1 | One by 330 votes which is a standard margin okay in this district and had one session under my belt down in Boise. |
1:06.0 | That was January, February, March of this year. |
1:10.0 | And it was an eye-opener. |
1:13.0 | It wasn't quite what I expected, but... |
1:15.0 | Why was that? |
1:17.0 | Well, I didn't expect the quality of the legislators to be as high and as good and as solid as it is. |
1:28.0 | I knew they'd be good people and accomplished people but they're exceptional people really. |
1:35.5 | Very well accomplished, they've done a lot in their lives and they're very dedicated to making Idaho a better place to live. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Apologia Radio, Jeff Durbin, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Apologia Radio, Jeff Durbin and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.