Bradshaw announces bid for governor

Bonner County Commissioner Steve Bradshaw has announced he is running for Idaho governor.

“We face tremendous threats from massive federal overreach to our way of life as Idahoans. Biden’s radical federal regime wants to run roughshod over the sovereignty of Idaho, and the freedom of Idahoans,” Bradshaw said in a press release announcing his Restore Our American Republic campaign Tuesday.

While Washington, D.C. technocrats want to dictate every detail of how Idahoans live their lives, Bradshaw said their “one size fits all” solutions don’t work in the state.

“So I am never going to allow that to happen,” he said. “Western traditions of freedom, independence and self-reliance — not government dependence — are the very essence of Idaho. We simply will not be dictated to by Washington, D.C. when it comes to our way of life and our values.”

Bradshaw said Idahoans will not be masked or vaccinated against their will and political rights must be honored.

“We will not deem patriots as ‘domestic' terrorists, nor will we deem a political gathering an ‘insurrection.’ We will stand up for our rights and we will back our stand by our God-given right to defend ourselves, our families, our homes and our way of life. No one will ever take our guns, and no one will limit how many rounds we can hold in our mags.”

In short, Bradshaw said in the press release, he will defend the sovereignty of the state if elected.

“We will protect the sovereignty of the entire state of Idaho, every inch of land within our borders, all of which falls within our dominion as a sovereign state,” he said. “Yes, I am talking to you, Bureau of Land Management, National Forest Service. You are guests in our state, we are not sharecroppers in yours.”