Campaign School
What are political candidates in Idaho thinking about? Well if you interviewed potential candidates for public office who recently gathered at the annual Idaho Farm Bureau Campaign school, you’d hear that they were thinking a lot about roads in Idaho and representing rural interests. I’m David Sparks and I’ll be right back. The Idaho Farm Bureau Campaign school is open to all potential candidates with a curriculum targeted at local, state and national political races. Over the past two decades, 80 percent of those attending the school were elected to public office according to Idaho Farm Bureau organizer Dennis Tanikuni. The curriculum for the Campaign School was put together by the American Farm Bureau with help from political consultants, staffs from both national political parties and even a couple of former reporters that grilled candidates in ambush interviews. Farmers…I took one for the team since I was one of the reporters along with the Farm Bureau’s Jake Putnam that did the grilling. We asked tough questions Long and short…to summarize what potential candidates were saying…agriculture is important, roads and infrastructure have to be developed, sound economic policies have to be employed and government needs to be returned to the people. Amen.
