ID-01: Top GOP Recruit Bows Out

[ccharles000]

The Idaho GOP has lost its top choice to run against frosh Democratic Rep. Walt Minnick. Idaho state Treasurer Ron Crane has decided not to run for Congress despite sounding like a candidate earlier in the week. From the Idaho Press-Tribune:

Nampa resident and Idaho Treasurer Ron Crane has decided against running for Walt Minnick's 1st District U.S. Congressional seat in 2010.
Crane, a Republican, told the Idaho Press-Tribune Friday he had made the decision not to run.

"I seriously explored it," Crane said. "I have come to the conclusion not to run."

Crane spent the last week hobnobbing with the GOP braintrust in DC, and now I have to wonder if he wasn't sufficiently impressed by the sorry state of affairs in the Boehner caucus. So make that one bullet dodged for Walt Minnick... but there are undoubtedly plenty more to come.

http://www.swingstateproject.com/diary/4931/id01-top-gop-recruit-bows-out

[Arkana]

1. Idaho. Really?

Does the DNC exist out there?

Is there even a chance a Democrat could get elected?

[ccharles000]

2. Idaho has a dem rep.

Walt Minnick is the first Democrat to represent Idaho at the federal level since Larry LaRocco, who represented the 1st for two terms until being swept out in the Republican Revolution of 1994.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Minnick

[Arkana]

3. How'd I miss that?

Huh.

[Hippo_Tron]

5. Lots of exciting shit happened on election night, I almost forgot Walt Minnick won

[ccharles000]

4. kick

[Hippo_Tron]

6. If the Republicans had picked any less of a nutjob than Bill Sali this wouldn't be an issue

Props to Minnick for being the first Democrat elected in Idaho since dinosaurs roamed the earth. I hope he can hang on to that seat.