Gotta love Dan Foreman. From the Moscow-Pullman Daily News:
The only candidate who strongly disagreed with the state’s [covid] response was former Sen. Dan Foreman, R-Viola, who is running against Nelson. He called for an investigation, both into the state’s actions and into the medical community, for the decisions they made.
“Your constitutional rights were violated,” Foreman said. “Anybody ever hear of the Bill of Rights, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion? When they pointed the finger and said, ‘Your business is essential, but yours isn’t,’ they had no right to do that. … Maybe it was well-intentioned, but it was dead wrong. There’s no emergency clause in the Bill of Rights.”
Foreman was also the exception when it came to the Legislature’s decision to use a large pot of federal dollars to expand broadband access across Idaho.
“I hear people say every day we need to keep the government out of our lives, that we need to let business people be free to run their businesses,” he said. “Yet here we go again, with our hand out wanting Uncle Sugar to bring in all the money so we can have all the things we want. But it should be provided by the private sector.”