Comments on: Libya Has History In Idaho Politics

By: dog

dog — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:36:24 +0000

No big surprise here Guardian. Idaho Farmers, the Farm Bureau, Idaho politicians, happily line up to do business with Red China. What is the difference? If given the opportunity, they would embrace North Korea as well as Iran. When have the “job creators” and corporate greed ever had boundaries?
Nazis, KKK, and Brian Fischer type Christians have always been tolerated in Idaho as long as the deciders wanted them around. This helps keep the California/Jewish influence out of Idaho. Same reason we have virtually no movie making industry in Idaho.

By: Owyhee

Owyhee — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:46:02 +0000

Congrats. The mainstream Idaho media has had this story for months, including photos, and has chosen to ignore it. There was an excellent feature piece on the Idaho-Libya connection in Harpers Magazine in 1980 written by Idaho native LJ Davis.

EDITOR NOTE–Thanks for your interest. I read the Davis piece and there is no doubt he got a portion of the material from my NY TIMES stories which are now nearly 35 years back in history. For any of you Google sleuths, the NY TIMES stories had a “special to NY TIMES” note, but they gave by-lines only to fulltime staffers. I was not a staffer.

By: Frank Lundburg

Frank Lundburg — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:03:24 +0000

I was working for Governor Evans at the time as, among other things, Assistant for Agriculture. Dr. Araje wanted me to be part of the delegation to Libya. Oscar Field from the Farm Bureau was supporting the delegation. I remember being in the Governor’s Office on the day they (the agriculture lobby) came in. Governor Evans looked at the Farm Bureau folks and said, “Oscar, I love my country very much and I can’t support a crook.” I’ve never written about this before. I later read an article in a newspaper which said Senator Symms was mystified by the bidet in his hlotel room. In any event all of us where I worked rufused to participate.