Larry LaRocco is still waiting to hear from Jim Risch. Last Saturday on NBC News Channel 6—KPVI-Pocatello during a live, 30-minute television interview, LaRocco called Risch out, challenging him to be in the traditional Idaho Public Television debate for their Senate race his fall.
“He ducked it in the primary in 2008. He ducked it in the general in 2006. I think he ought to be there,” LaRocco said. (See the interview here.)
LaRocco also called on Risch—again—to apologize for a lying ad he put on TV during the primary, and still has on his website. Risch claimed to have made the largest tax cut in history, but didn’t mention the 20 percent sales tax hike he passed to pay for it.
Risch ignores scathing rebukes from Idaho’s major newspapers.
Remember the Idaho Statesman front-page headline, “Hold on a Sec, Mr. Risch.”?
Or the Lewiston Tribune calling Risch, “the shiftiest of politicians.”?
Or the Post Register writing, “The kind of fuzzy math Risch just outlined led to unfair federal tax breaks for the rich and massive budget deficits for the rest of us.”?
LaRocco didn’t mince words on KPVI: “Jim Risch should apologize to the people of Idaho for those ads. He didn’t put through a tax cut, he put through a tax shift and he put the working people at the end of the line.”
In other news this week, Larry LaRocco joined 12 workers in the manufacturing division of Everton Mattress Factory in Filer. The Everton Mattress retail store is in Twin Falls. This was LaRocco’s 26th job in his “Working for the Senate” campaign. KMVT has video here.
Stay tuned for campaign news at www.laroccoforsenate.com.
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