Idaho lawmaker threatens to call police on students, tells them abortion is murder

[ehrnst]

A state senator shouted Monday at University of Idaho students affiliated with Planned Parenthood, trying to schedule a meeting with him to discuss birth control and sex education.

Sen. Dan Foreman, R-Moscow, said he would call law enforcement officials if they attempted to visit his office at the Capitol again.

The students, who had traveled nearly 300 miles from the Moscow campus to participate in a Boise lobbying event, were trying to schedule a meeting with Foreman.

The Republican canceled at the last minute. The students left him a note and condoms in his office before moving on to other scheduled meetings.

The students and Foreman passed in a hallway. He emphatically refused to speak with them in an exchange that several people recorded on camera.

“Abortion is murder. I stand against it,” Foreman says in the short clips, posted on Facebook. “I am a Roman Catholic. I am a conservative Republican. I think what you guys do stinks.”

After a further exchange, Foreman then walks through an office door. “The next time you walk in my office, you’re going to be dealing with ISP,” he says.

Foreman did not immediately return a request for comment.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article200985739.html

[spanone]

1. taliban in congress.

FUCK YOU dan, these are your constituents...i hope they vote your ass right out the door.

[samnsara]

2. we need to remind these right to lifers that their outrage cant stop at the womb...so far they only

care for the rights of the fetus...

[Aristus]

3. Idaho.

The bleeding hemorrhoid masquerading as a state.

[hunter]

4. Brain drain.

The smart creative people leave for cosmopolitan places to be replaced by white people who fled their all-white suburbs the day the first non-white, non-Christian, or LGBT family moved in.

There are some bright spots in Idaho, but they're not the people this guy represents.

I grew up in a California community that was 99% white and kept that way by redlining and sundown ordinances, later by illegal means. DWB's and other forms of harassment were the police department's favorite pastime. Some of the most racist pricks and Christian fundamentalists I knew in high school have moved to Idaho, filling their social media posts with dog whistles of various sorts as their reasons.

To be fair, a few of my classmates have sought an outdoor lifestyle there, selling the homes of their parents or grandparents at inflated California real estate prices, trading up to an Idaho farm or ranch, but more have moved to Idaho and places like it for God, guns, and white people.

[dembotoz]

5. my father in law bought some land in idaho for many of the reasons you mentioned

when he died his daughter and i thought about a move out there...ya know the land was paid for and all...but hell no