Sam Sandmire
@SamSandmire
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Volunteer organizer for issues that affect people's lives. Retired gymnastics coach (BSU). Love my family, Idaho & being outdoors. #BABEVOTE #ReclaimIdaho
Boise, Idaho
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Got to meet one of my heroes tonight.
@DanPriceSeattle
grew up near Melba
#Idaho
& rocked the corporate world by providing every employee in his successful major corporation a minimum salary of $70,000. Thank you, Dan!
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@sandibachom
Yes. Justice Clarence Thomas is vaccinated & boosted, like many powerful far-right conservatives who protect themselves while ignoring (& sometimes spreading) misinformation that hurts others.
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When I had my baby in 1995, he was not allowed in daycare until he was fully vaccinated, which was at 8 weeks. Because I had an incredible boss (BSU AD Gene Bleymaier), I took my baby to work with me. Not everyone is so fortunate.
#BuildBackBetter
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Who else is glad Idaho legislators can't call themselves back into session whenever they want? Thank you, Idaho voters.
#idpol
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I just bought a couch from a family moving to Minnesota b/c of Idaho's draconian abortion laws. One of the parents is an ObGyn who said she can no longer provide proper care for her patients. They're also concerned for their teenage daughter. We are losing ObGyns.
#idpol
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Let's have a talk, Idahoans. Our state is being taken over by special interest groups that get legislators to harm our state by attempting to criminalize: 1. Health care workers who administer MRNA vaccines (that include COVID19, rabies & other common vaccines)
#idpol
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@GovernorLittle
What do you hope to accomplish by leaving Idaho to travel to the border? Cuz it seems like there are plenty of threats that affect your constituents right here in your state?
#idpol
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@CNNPolitics
Glad Modly resigned. He forever ruined his credibility & revealed the person he is. He is not the type of leader decent people want or need. Don't let the door hit ya on the way out, former
#NavySecretary
.
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Just testified before
#Idaho
Senate State Affairs committee. Fact: 3,785 Idahoans have died from
#Covid_19
. 33 Idahoans died yesterday from
#Covid_19
. Zero Idahoans have died from the
#COVID19Vaccine
.
#idpol
#IdahoCovid19
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I was hired at
@BoiseState
over candidates w/college coaching experience. By 2nd season
@BroncoSportsGYM
was ranked in top 20. Got offered HC job
@Stanford
but stayed & coached
@BroncoSports
for 20 yrs. Never regretted staying.
#BleedBlue
#BoiseState
@BroncoSportsFB
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@jcdeloof
I got my 1st IUD from
#PlannedParenthood
when I was 20 & used them until I was 38 & I decided to have a baby. After delivery, I used IUDs until menopause. Politicians, if you take our IUDs, we will take away your jobs--guaranteed.
#WomensRights
#Contraception
#idpol
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Who else is sick of IFF extremist terrorists who caused the lockdown of
@StLukesHealth
?
#idpol
#idleg
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School voucher bill fails . Thank you to all who support public funds going to public schools.
#idpol
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@GovernorLittle
@WhiteHouse
@realDonaldTrump
So when you say "Idaho supports President Trump's Supreme Court Nominee," who, exactly are you referring to? Because I am an Idahoan and I most certainly do not.
#idpol
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@ewarren
@JoeBiden
@KamalaHarris
.
@SenWarren
for Sen. Majority Leader! Let's make it happen.
#FlipTheSenate
#Warren4MajorityLeader
#WarrenDemocrats
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@MeghanMcCain
...and these workers should ALWAYS have been making a living wage. In Idaho, our minimum wage is just above $7/hour, which NO one can live on.
#RaiseMinimumWage
#idpol
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Turning diversity into the enemy is harmful & embarrassing for Idahoans & bad for Idaho businesses. Do better.
#idpol
It’s official – Idaho has banned “diversity statements” ACROSS STATE GOVERNMENT!
I’m proud to sign this bill and ensure Idahoans are hired or accepted into college based on merit and hard work.
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Idaho voters have been clear. Idahoans want our tax dollars to fund *public* schools, not private schools. Even though rural Idahoans were excluded from testifying remotely at this morning's school voucher hearing, their message came through.
#idpol
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“This leads us directly into democracy and I am opposed to that.” Idaho legislator, Rep. Barbara Ehardt
#idpol
#democracy
#idleg
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ID Sen. Risch thinks person who reported Trump's illegal/dangerous leak 2 Russians is "the weasel." Some disagree.
@IndivisibleTeam
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Aaaaaannnddd...Gov. Little signed the bill banning helping minors travel to obtain legal abortions. Even US Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh said this travel ban is unconstitutional. But Idaho taxpayers will foot the legal bills.
#idpol
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Can we please stop calling voucher scams that allow tax dollars to be spent on private/religious schools "school choice" now? Tell it like it is.
#idpol
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In the nearly 3 hours of public testimony, only 2 people testified in favor of H419, the
#MedicaidExpansion
repeal bill: A representative from Idaho Freedom Foundation & one other person. Thankfully H419 failed. Idahoans favor Medicaid Expansion by a whopping 73%.
#idpol
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Mayor McLean
@boisemayor
kicked off her re-election campaign at a Boise public park. Her opponent’s campaign kickoff event was at a private country club.
#DefiningMoments
#Boise
#idpol
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Children deserve free lunch at school & free public education because they are human beings. A society that does not take care of their children is abhorrent.
#idpol
#idleg
#BasicHumanDecency
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I coached @ BSU for 20 years, married, raised 3 sons, & now volunteer w/
#ReclaimIdaho
.org . We helped bring healthcare to over 100,000 Idahoans via
#MedicaidExpansion
. We're working to fund education & restore citizen ballot initiatives.
#WeAreIdaho
#IAmIdaho
#idpol
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Idaho legislator calls rape of 13 yr. old by her father "natural circumstances" & says this situation would give the child "the opportunity" to have a child. My late father delivered a baby from a 13 yr. old who was raped by her father. This is not merely hypothetical.
#idpol
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@GovernorLittle
@IdahoBusinessEd
You went all the way to the Supreme Court to block citizens' ability to vote on education funding. You cut $90 million from the education budget. Used laptops are not going to make up for the damage your actions caused. You are not "The Education Governor."
#idpol
#idedu
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In light of the tragic disaster in Lahaina, we are opening our Kihei condo up to a Lahaina firefighter & his family who have lost everything but their lives in the fire. Our condo was not affected, so this is the least we can do. Thank you to all who are expressing concern.
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@MSNBC
My pre-midterm exercise program is door-knocking.
#Face2FaceWinsTheRace
#Door2DoorWinsTheWar
#BABEVOTE
#VoteYESon2
#MedicaidExpansion
#idpol
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Former Idaho Supreme Court Justice Jim Jones delivered over 16,000 signatures from Idaho citizens from over 200 towns urging
@GovernorLittle
to veto SB1110, the anti-citizen ballot initiative bill. Call the Governor’s office now at 208-334-2100.
#idpol
#veto1110
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Lots of Idahoans at McCall Winter Carnival signed the Open Primaries Initiative that will create 1 non-partisan primary that every registered voter will be able to vote in. Idaho's closed primaries block 270,000 independent registered voters from voting.
#idpol
@OpenPrimariesID
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Another voucher scheme disguised as “school choice” that will allow our tax dollars to subsidize private schools. No. Just no.
#idpol
#schoolvouchers
Money for private school tuition? Idaho Republican proposal is back as a ‘tax rebate’
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“The unrelenting harm that has occurred as a part of this process, & as a result of her being doxxed in blogs & by Rep. Priscilla Giddings, is exactly why two-thirds of Idaho survivors of sexual assault never choose to report the crimes against them.”
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Why would Idahoans, who passed
#MedicaidExpansion
by 61%, want a bill that would effectively repeal that law & give up the 90% federal match that currently pays to cover Idahoans who can’t afford health care coverage, & shift million$ in cost to our counties���our property taxes?
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I don’t normally Tweet videos like this, but Instagram is down & I want to express how incredibly peaceful McCall is in autumn.
#Idahome
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Idaho Rep. Ehardt just revealed the motivation to create "Greater Idaho" (which would move borders of Idaho into western Oregon): to make it more difficult for Idahoans to drive to Oregon to purchase pot & obtain abortions.
#idpol
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My testimony today on why Idaho will get sued (& likely lose) if H 124—the ban on student IDs for voting—is enacted.
#idpol
#LetStudentsVote
#BABEVOTE
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Idaho's law banning use of student IDs for voting is even more restrictive than Montana's law that got struck down. This bodes well for BABE VOTE's & the League of Women Voters of Idaho's legal challenge, where they await a ruling by Idaho Supreme Court.
#idpol
Montana Supreme Court strikes down law banning student IDs from being used for voting
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Spent yesterday with
#ReclaimIdaho
in Weiser & Council, knocking doors & meeting with citizens who are concerned about legislation that would allow their tax dollars to be spent on private schools.
#SchoolVouchers
#idpol
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Thread: While I was knocking doors yesterday, I talked with 3 Idaho residents who have not been able to register to vote due to new, restrictive laws. It’s not just young people whose votes are being suppressed.
#idpol
Watch their stories: 1. Vet with birth certificate issue
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And we taxpayers foot the bill when unconstitutional laws are challenged in court & are overturned. Now far-right Idaho legislators are colluding w/establishment Republicans to again try to steal our citizen ballot initiative & referendum rights. Don't let them.
#idpol
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Wow. New “America First”Idaho transplant wants to cave our economy & force thousands of Idahoans to lose their jobs.
#idpol
#IFFisBad4Idaho
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@LOLGOP
Let's be clear: Taking away women's right to choose is punishment all of the republican candidates agree on.
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Destinie Hart’s opponent, Xavier Torres, signed the petition to dissolve Meridian Library District. Destinie supports Meridian Libraries. Vote for Destinie
@Hart4Mld
.
#idpol
#SupportLibraries
#Meridian
#Vote4DestinieHart
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I watched
@PauletteEJordan
not just talk, but really listen to students at
@AMarch4OurLives
& other events. As governor, Paulette will continue listening.
#endorsedByThePeople
#ImWithPaulette
#jordanforgovernor
#idpol
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Idahoans voted by a landslide to expand Medicaid. 90% of the cost is covered by Federal dollars. This bill would gut Medicaid & our counties & property taxes would have to pay for tens of thousands of uncovered Idahoans again.
#idpol
#Medicaid
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@davlinnews
The problem isn’t that Rep. Shepherd said these sexist things out loud. The bigger problem is that he & many in Idaho’s legislature actually believe women belong only in the home so they pass laws to force their beliefs on all Idahoans.
#dleg
#idpol
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We must elect representatives who reflect our values. Rejecting federal dollars that could have fed hungry children from low-income families should not be “the Idaho way.”
#idpol
‘A dark day for Idaho kids’: Republicans reject $16M to feed children over the summer
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And here we have Idaho. Pay attention, voters.
#idpol
Biden won the 2020 election — 2 of 3 Idaho secretary of state candidates say he didn’t
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Pro-voucher groups spent $177,000 trying to get legislators to allow Idahoans' tax dollars to be spent on private schools. Reclaim Idaho drove to every rural Idaho county to talk w/voters about how vouchers would hurt their public schools.
#idpol
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Got to talk with one of my heroes,
@piper4missouri
Crown & Thistle in Coeur d’Alene.
#idpol
#schoolvouchers
#SchoolChoiceIsAScam
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"Little had an opportunity to veto the bill, a veto that likely would have held up without a supermajority in the Senate. He could have brokered a compromise bill that banned surgeries, which are not being performed in Idaho, but allowed for other gender-affirming care."
#idpol
We had hoped Little would have the courage to stand as a breakwall against these waves of intolerance and control that have crashed on Idaho’s shores. He didn't.
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While paddling up the Payette River, north of Payette Lake.
#Idahome
#WhyILiveHere
(it ain’t the politics)!
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@BetsyZRussell
Thank you, Capitol Correspondents Association for revoking press credentials from the reporter who filmed the teenage rape survivor after yesterday's ethics hearing. Hope the House Ethics Committee now addresses the Rep. who doxed the intern.
#idleg
#idpol
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@IdahoStatesman
I was honored to coach at Boise State University for 20 years & to help prepare students for life beyond college. Yenor is a disgrace to the university & his words and actions are harmful to its students. Fire Yenor now.
@BoiseState
#idpol
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Idaho has never had a ballot "cluttered" w/citizen ballot initiatives. The anti-initiative law is not only unconstitutional; it is unnecessary.
#ReclaimIdaho
#IdahoSupremeCourt
#idpol
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Loved the testifier who asked why we can’t trust librarians with books, but now we’re going to trust librarians with a Glock!
#idpol
#GunSafety
#GunSense
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I’m in Blackfoot with Reclaim Idaho having conversations w/Idahoans about ESA Voucher legislation that would take money from public schools & allow it to be spent on private, religious & for-profit schools. Citizens are concerned.
#idpol
#ESAVouchers
#SchoolVouchers
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I was raised in Green Bay & I'm a devoted
@packers
fan. Like thousands of WI residents, my parents are team owners. My Dad delivered Bart Starr's kids & many other Packer babies. I was a college coach for 20 years. Public health is more important than sports.
#AaronRodgers
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@GovernorLittle
Thank you for protecting the people of Idaho from a legislature that is trying to take away your power to protect us. Please also veto SB1110 to stop the legislature from taking the people's constitutional-guaranteed power to make law by ballot initiative.
#veto1110
#idpol
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Yesterday I was planning to catch a ride to the ski hill w/a friend. He texted me that he was experiencing mild cold-like symptoms, so I told him I would drive up separately. Tonight he tested positive for
#COVID19
. Glad he told me.
#DodgedABullet
#idahoCovid19
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"Meanwhile, Gov. Brad Little, Sen. Treg Bernt and Rep. James Petzke — all three white men — proudly pose for a photo holding up a proclamation ending diversity statements in Idaho."
#idpol
Are Idaho leaders sending a clear enough message that this isn't welcome in Idaho? Or are Idaho leaders sending the exact opposite message?
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@HeatherScottID
I hope this is a parody account, because I would be extremely embarrassed & disgusted if a member of our state legislature actually posted this tweet.
#idpol
#idleg
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Idaho educators & school leaders recently learned that Idaho public schools will receive $115 million less than was promised.
#idpol
I signed a petition calling on
@GovernorLittle
to keep his promise & take action to fix this problem. Sign here:
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“We have a House GOP caucus that has truly lost its way from conservative small government. That caucus now prefers to fixate on imaginary, divisive social issues that are ginned up on Fox News...to the near exclusion of the very real issues that actually face Idahoans.”
#idpol
Eye on Boise: House, Senate Dem leaders decry legislative session's focus on 'divisive social issues'; link to my full story in today's
@TheIdahoPress
#idleg
#idpol
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Volunteering for the Reclaim Idaho campaign to put Medicaid Expansion on the ballot has renewed my faith in our state. The politics of Idaho does not reflect the people of Idaho.
#WeThePeople
#ReclaimIdaho
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“Fuentes said ‘I wish Putin was president of America,’ hours before the Russian military invaded Ukraine, according to Vice News. ‘I am totally rooting for Russia,’ he wrote on Telegram. ‘This is the coolest thing to happen since 1/6.’”
#idpol
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@Lachiondo4Ada
We don't deserve you,
@Lachiondo4Ada
. I agree w/everything you said. Your intelligent, compassionate, responsible voice is needed. I hope you continue in public service, but I don't blame you if you decide not to. This sign from local HS kids echos my sentiments.
#idpol
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“As of noon Thursday, Little’s office has received 1,913 calls and emails on the library bill, spokeswoman Madison Hardy said. In all, 1,788 people voiced opposition.”
Analysis:
@GovernorLittle
has until Wednesday morning to act on the latest library bill. The guessing and waiting game begins.
#idleg
#idedu
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“Moon has been such a good foil for the initiative campaign that supporters believe she’s one reason their drive to secure the 63,000 valid voter signatures needed to qualify the measure for next year’s ballot is ahead of schedule.”
#idpol
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Listening to Rep. Young presenting her bill, H421, that would declare that there are only male & female people. Science proves otherwise. There are tens of thousands of people who are biologically intersex. Many more are non-binary. Erasing these people is wrong.
#idpol
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In light of today’s von Ehlinger verdict, I wonder how legislators who voted yes on the recent bill that allows rapists’ family members to sue rape victims if the victims choose to terminate their pregnancies feel.
#idpol
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2. Librarians 3. Parents who seek gender affirming care for their trans kids 4. People who provide or get abortions. These same legislators are trying to allow our tax dollars to be spent on private, religious & for-profit schools w/no oversight.
#idpol
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