In an editorial in the Lewiston Tribune, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase pays tribute to former Idaho House Speaker Tom Boyd, who died this week:

If you want to understand what made House Speaker Tom Boyd, R- Genesee, so unique, consider the fate of the lowly steelhead. Boyd, who died Monday at the age of 86, adopted the steelhead as the mascot for a political career that consisted, as he would put it, of swimming upstream, always against the current. Even the night he first got elected to the Idaho House of Representatives, Boyd was the odd man out. It was 1976. Jimmy Carter and the Democrats were sweeping into office. Latah County had elected Boyd, a Republican, to join an otherwise Democratic delegation that included Sen. Norma Dobler and Rep. Bob Hosack. And so it continued. More here.

Question: Are there any Republican Idaho legislators today, in the mold of the late Tom Boyd, who reach across the aisle to do what's right for the people of Idaho rather than what's best for the Republican Party?