Woodward will deliver conservative common sense

In his letter, Don Myers (Daily Bee, April 14) advocates for “common sense,” and I’m pretty sure we can all agree that would be a good thing. But then he implies that HB 500 is common sense. However, HB 500 is a poorly written bill and even the Idaho attorney general thought HB 500 was “constitutionally problematic” before it was passed. Not surprising to anyone with “common sense” HB 500 was challenged in court shortly after being signed into law and has been blocked on constitutional grounds at both the district and appeals court levels. 

Passing bills that are almost certainly going to open the state of Idaho to expensive lawsuits that are only going to make liberal lawyers rich doesn’t seem to fit my definition of “common sense.” What does seem like common, fiscally conservative sense, would be voting against such a bill. A vote against HB 500 would actually protect the citizens of Idaho from paying the inevitable legal fees of liberal lawyers. That is what Jim Woodward did, and what I trust Jim Woodward to continue to do if elected. But I guess “common sense” means different things to different people.

JAMES KNOBBS

Dover