Thou shall not bear false witness

Our mailboxes are flooded with trash that Scott and his out-of-state handlers are using to try and muddy Jim Woodward's reputation and record.

Expensive, professionally printed flyers and “newspapers” misrepresent Jim Woodward, but contain little on Mr. Herndon’s record of destruction. And in an absurd display of the pot calling the kettle black, Mr. Herndon accuses Jim Woodward of taking $15,000 in out-of-state donations. Scott, where did the many tens of thousands of dollars come from to pay for your flooding us with what the Bonner County Sherrif called printed “rags” that lied about his endorsement of you and your picks for the elections? Hmmmmm? 

About your record … It's a long history of performative actions that resulted in trauma: 

• For schoolchildren and our communities when you and your kids displayed large gruesome dismembered fetus photos at school gatherings, farmers markets, and community events; 

• The taxpayer cost when you tried to force the Festival at Sandpoint to allow you to carry weapons in music venues; 

• Our hospitals and medical staff with poorly written legislation making them criminals to save a mother rather than letting her die of childbirth complications; 

• Dictating what schools/teachers can teach, and what librarians allow in our libraries.   

Enough of the hateful and deeply divisive agendas by the oxymoronic named “Freedom Foundation” which does the opposite of promoting freedom for Idahoans.   

Jim Woodward listens and thoughtfully votes on what benefits all of us without outsider agendas. He has done an outstanding job as our senator. He is a real contractor and a real Christian in all that that means. He is a loving family man and a traditional conservative who doesn’t require permission from others in his votes. And Jim doesn’t shoot his neighbor’s dog.   

PIERRE BORDENAVE

Sandpoint