Another article on Dan Foreman in the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
The Republican in the race, former Sen. Dan Foreman, of Viola, said one of his top priorities will be to launch a “Nuremberg-style” investigation into how the state handled the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I believe Idahoans needlessly died and suffered and lost their life savings because of the way the pandemic was handled,” he said. “People need to know what happened, so we can make sure it never happens again.”
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Foreman thinks the new district boundaries work in his favor.
“We picked up more registered Republicans,” he said. “There’s a large block of unaffiliated voters, but the Democrats and unaffiliated voters together don’t outnumber Republicans by much.”
Given the outcome of the May Republican primary, when several moderate Republican incumbents lost to more conservative candidates, Foreman also thinks his District 6 race could help tip the balance in the Senate.
“It hasn’t gone unnoticed that we have a large stable of conservative Senate candidates,” he said. “If we win the lion’s share of those races, it will be a completely new Senate, with new leadership.”
Foreman said the conservative candidates are “in communication with each other” and will come to the post-election organizational meeting in December prepared to nominate a slate of conservative Republican leaders.
“We’re loaded for bear,” he said.
Although he wouldn’t run for a leadership position for egotistical reasons, Foreman said, “if I think I’m the best person to be Senate president or majority leader, for the sake of Idaho I’d step up to get the job done. And I will get it done: Executive branch interference needs to end.”
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Foreman said if he’d been in office for the special session, he would have “emphatically” opposed the decision to set aside more money for schools. He said it simply poured more money into a broken system.
“Money isn’t the key (to a good education),” he said. “It’s dedication and effort, having a good curriculum and having parents who value education. The system we have turns schools into a union-influenced cash cow.”
Inflammatory remarks were something of a specialty of Foreman’s during his one term in the Legislature. For example, he twice voted against the University of Idaho’s annual budget, saying it contained “too much pork.” He also referred to Moscow, the largest community in his district, as a “cesspool of liberalism.”
Saying the Legislature needs to conduct a “Nuremberg-style” investigation is similarly inflammatory, given that it refers to the Nazi war crimes trials held after World War II.
Foreman is unapologetic for using such terms.
“You can’t sugar coat the truth so it will be palatable to your listeners, because then it’s not the truth,” he said. “My constituents gave me that term. Individual rights were violated (during the pandemic) in the name of taking federal money. If saying that costs me votes, so be it. I’m not a politician; I am a Christian, conservative Republican. Watering down issues this serious is tantamount to lying.”