Herndon's extreme views don't belong in Idaho

Scott Herndon, the Republican candidate for state senator District 1A, is the most dangerous person to ever be on the Idaho ballot. He's worse than

Ammon Bundy. He's not your run-of-the-mill Wall Street Journal conservative. He is an evangelical militant extremist.

Herndon endorses the execution of both a woman and her doctor for performing an abortion. He regards those of us who don't maraud around town with automatic weapons threatening bystanders and librarians as weak "snowflakes" or "sheep." He tried to shut down our 38-year-running Festival at Sandpoint twice because the Festival's gun policy clashed with he and his militia buddies' nascent alt-right ideology.

He believes states and counties to be their own all powerful redneck republics or cracker kingdoms. As long as someone can write a law then we all have to obey it. These are all a state or county's supreme sovereign "inalienable rights." According to Herndon, the federal government can never strike down a state law and not even a state can strike down a county ordinance. Reminds me of the racist U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond from South Carolina who ran on a platform of state's rights to enforce segregation of black people in his state.

Our Constitution is set up so that our rights are guaranteed regardless of the outcome of an election. No one should ever have to watch their back based on who gets elected.

I've met Steve Johnson. He is local, sincere, kind and of high integrity.  So write him in on Nov. 8.

JACK GREEN

Sandpoint