BOISE, Idaho — In Republican Idaho, questioning somebody’s allegiance to the Constitution makes for fightin’ words.
As GOP Attorney General Lawrence Wasden recently discovered, levying the allegation through a political rival’s grandson raises hackles, too.
Wasden and LeeAnn Callear, a Republican Central Committee official from Orofino, are feuding. That’s because Callear questions whether Wasden’s legal opinions reflect conservative values.
Wasden counters his job transcends politics.
In April, Callear’s grandson, 16-year-old Mitch Dollemore, was at the Capitol in Boise when he and Wasden agree this happened: The AG suggested to the teen his grandmother didn’t back the Constitution.
Wasden says he immediately realized he’d erred and quickly wrote an apology.
Dollemore and Callear remain miffed.
Beyond a little behind-the-scenes Republican dustup, however, this underscores how Idaho’s dominant political party is rife with internal conflict.
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