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I was asked by a Daily Bee reporter by email to respond to a story about Dave Reilly and other organizations. I responded within hours and by the deadline. The reporter even acknowledged they received my response.
I was surprised then to read in the story that “Local legislators Sage Dixon and Scott Herndon did not share comments, saying they needed to familiarize themselves with the issue before speaking on it."

What I actually returned to the reporter was this: I don’t know anything about Dave Reilly to put me in a position to speak knowledgeably. 

I also do not know anything about the arrangements between IFF and any of their staff or contractors to speak knowledgeably.

Some have claimed a link between Dave Reilly and Nick Fuentes. I have seen some limited videos on X of Nick Fuentes. The rhetoric and movement Fuentes represents appear to promote government expansion, collectivist ideological principles, identity politics, and even a socialist-style dictatorship. Those principles are flat-out anti-American and have more in common with radical leftists like Antifa and BLM than they do with the Idaho Republican Party.

The Fuentes principles are also fundamentally against the limited government and individual liberty principles that I have fought so hard for in Boise. I oppose massive government expansion and spending increases because it deprives North Idaho taxpayers of their treasure through higher tax burdens. When it deprives them of their treasure, it also deprives them of their time and their choices.

My position is that all human beings are individually created in God’s image. I reject secular humanism, collectivism, and the supremacy of one group of people over another, such as white supremacists, socialists, communists, and practitioners of identity politics (politics based on race, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, social background, social class). I also agree with the Idaho Republican platform when it states that, “We believe in equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity for all, regardless of race, creed, sex, age or disability.”

SCOTT HERNDON

Sagle