How to defeat an extremist strategy

How did the extremist Scott Herndon get control of the local Republican Party?

He had a strategy. He found other extremists who swallowed his extremist rhetoric, and they became his Republican precinct troops.

They, in turn, created such chaos and divisiveness that regular North Idaho Republicans resigned their precinct positions in protest. Which was exactly what extremist Herndon had planned. Then, he contacted a wealthy extremist lobbying group in Nevada, McShane, LLC, and paid them $80,000 to produce and distribute thousands of dishonest and distorted postcards that lied about state Sen. Jim Woodward. The lies worked, and extremist Herndon won the Republican primary in 2020.

And, now, power-hungry extremist Herndon thinks he can do it again. Although this time he will not only lie about Jim Woodward, he will also lie about Mark Sauter and anyone else who calls him out on his extremist and divisive agenda.

How do we stop him? Honorable and community-minded Republicans will need to take back their party. They will need to run for the Republican precinct chairs in March 2024, get elected in May 2024, and when they are in the majority, they can send dangerous extremist Herndon down the road.

In the interim, honorable and honest Republicans will need to make sure they are registered and will vote in the Republican primary in May 2024. Hopefully, Sen. Jim Woodward will run in the Republican primary in 2024 and win. And extremist Herndon will go back to wherever he came from.

STEVE JOHNSON

Sagle