Perhaps the oddest thing about Keith Allred, the newly announced Democratic candidate for governor of Idaho, is that he's not a Democrat. He's not a Republican either. Instead, the 45-year-old former Harvard professor and expert mediator is a passionate advocate for a grand experiment in…
The Idaho Republican Party put out a press release today headed "Allred deceives public," saying that when it tried to file an IRS complaint against The Common Interest over founder Keith Allred's email to members informing them he was running for governor, it could find…
Idaho's overall tax burden, per capita, is the sixth-lowest in the country and the lowest among western states, the Idaho Tax Commission says. That's the result of its latest tax burden study, which showed significant impact from the 2006 legislation that lowered Idaho's property tax,…
In his letter describing why he's co-chairing Keith Allred's Democratic gubernatorial campaign, former GOP state Sen. Laird Noh writes, "I am a Republican rancher with nothing bad to say about Butch Otter." Citing his longtime Republican credentials, he asks, "Why would a person like me…
Keith Allred formally announced his candidacy for governor as a Democrat this morning, at a rally in the Twin Falls High School gym, the same place he gave his first speech as a sixth-grader and where he spoke often when he was the school's student…
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