Wake up Bonner County! Did you want Obamacare? Neither did the Bonner County Republican Central Committee. They unanimously passed a resolution against the Health Care exchanges. Despite our wishes, all three of our elected Bonner County Republican legislators, Rep. George Eskridge, Rep. Eric Anderson and Sen. Shawn Keogh, voted for the health care exchanges in mid-March 2013.

Health care exchanges, whether federal or state, are the only way Obamacare can be implemented in a state. By the way, Idaho is the only Republican state that voted for the health care exchanges. Other Republican states said no to the exchange and are using their sovereignty to fight this issue, as Chief Justice Roberts suggested in the Obamacare decision. Yet our representatives refused to even consider the sovereignty question.

I noted that our legislators’ votes for the exchanges, despite conflicting with the expressed will of the people and the hints from the Supreme Court, are consistent with campaign contributions each of them received from the health, insurance and medical industries. Sen. Keough accepted $5,550. Rep. Anderson accepted $4,600 and Rep. Eskridge accepted $2,300. (www.followthemoney.org/database/StateGlance/)

This pack of three does not seem to be listening to the voice of the people they represent. Let’s remember this in the 2014 election. Hopefully there will be true conservatives running against them.

DEBI JACOBS

Blanchard