When Idaho's Republican State Central Committee gathered for its winter meeting over the weekend, it faced 37 proposed resolutions, including one supporting tax-protesting Rep. Phil Hart, R-Athol, in his ethics issues; one rapping Rep. Eric Anderson, R-Priest Lake, who filed an ethics complaint against Hart; one to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana; and one calling for banning the IRS from filing tax liens in Idaho counties, as it's done repeatedly against Hart in Kootenai County. The central committee's resolutions committee decided not to consider those first three, but it did pass the tax-liens measure.

Also approved: A new rule limiting the 200-plus central committee members to proposing just two resolutions per meeting in the future; this time, one member, Lucas Baumbach of Boise, proposed 14, including the marijuana one and another calling for ending state funding for all education expenses other than "basic education in reading, writing and arithmetic."

Among the resolutions that did pass: A "fair tax" resolution submitted by Baumbach, which originally called for eliminating Idaho's personal income tax and raising the state's sales tax by 2 cents, but was amended to just call for eliminating the income tax; one backing state Superintendent of Schools Tom Luna's school reform plan; one seeking to "nullify" the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision on abortion; another calling for repealing urban renewal; and one demanding that the Legislature "nullify" the Superfund law and boot the EPA from the Coeur d'Alene Basin cleanup; you can read the 20 successful resolutions here.

"These are resolutions - that's a statement in support of or opposition to or encouraging an idea," said Idaho GOP Executive Director Jonathan Parker. "It's not legislation per se, obviously. ... This is an avenue for our members to express their views and their ideas, and we take great pride in being the party of ideas." He added, "All of these resolution have been submitted to our Republican legislators and state officers and congressionals, and if they decide to act on some of these ideas and suggestions from the state party, that's great."