Vote for competent LD2 legislators Nov. 5

Idaho'as Legislative District 2, LD2, includes Clearwater, Shoshone, and Benewah County, eastern Kootenai County and three precincts in Bonner County.

Let's vote for public education defenders to represent LD2 in the Idaho Legislature.

Vote for Tom Hearn (D), Senator; Loree Peery (D), Representative 2a; and Tami Holdahl (I), Representative 2b.

Hearn, Peery, and Holdahl support public education and have already been serving the people of North Central Idaho in evenhanded and respectful ways.

Our K-12 public schools strengthen Idaho's rural communities with purposeful learning, family-based activities, sports, and services.

Idaho's public colleges and vocational schools are active. County extension programs from U of I provide agricultural and forestry courses as well as 4H directly to rural counties of LD2.

The Idaho Republican platform has a plank against tax-payer funding beyond K-12.  

On school and college boards, the far-right's agenda has been to sabotage public education from within, following out-of-state playbooks.

Look at North Idaho College or the West Bonner School District. Destructive board members put qualified personnel under siege and schools in peril.

Idaho's hard right legislators drain public schools, restrict curriculum, and ignore public testimony. They fail to represent the majority or respect the role of public education.

Vote for competent LD2 legislators who will represent the voters and fight for Idaho's schools!

Vote for Hearn, Peery, and Holdahl.

SANDRA GOFFINET

Orofino