Let the games begin....

State Representative Ken Roberts is challenger number two in the race for Republicans to face off with Walt Minnick in the 1st Congressional race. The field could become more crowded with Republican candidates as pointed out in a recent post from Kevin Richert.

"I would be a little surprised,[...]this shakes out into a simple two-way GOP primary between Roberts and Vaughn Ward, a former Marine and Senate aide to Dirk Kempthorne. Too many possible candidates still unaccounted for: Attorney General Lawrence Wasden; state Sen. John McGee, R-Caldwell; state Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Eagle; and former U.S. Rep. Bill Sali, who lost to Minnick seven months ago."

It will be an exciting summer as candidates and potential candidates race to get endorsements, and equally as important, campaign funds. So far each candidate has evoked the vampire like name of Nancy Pelosi as they scramble to tag on to RNC (Republican Nation Committee ) rhetoric. 

Here's and interesting post from Policito.  And here is one from the Spokesman Review .

I wonder, two reports list Vaughn Ward as a campaign worker for Senator John McCain's presidential race and the Statesman reports he is a former aid to Dirk Kempthorne , which is correct?

Oh, here is a story from the Idaho Press Tribune with another McCain campaign reference. I love this campaign promise made by Ward.

 "He promised he would not support Pelosi as Speaker of the House or switch parties."

Boy that part about not switching parties must make long time Republicans sleep better at night.

Here's a little crystal ball prediction from Rep. Brent Crane that made me giggle.

"You get a three or four person race and Bill Sali jumps in, all bets are off," Rep. Brent Crane, R-Nampa, said about handicapping the GOP Primary election.

A primary race like that could go a long way to improving Idaho's economy what with the printing, the signs, the billboards,the mailings, the phone calls, the caterers, the paid volunteers, the....