Idaho's MAGA Lt. Governor Just Tried to Seize Power, Again

[Jilly_in_VA]

Nothing to see in Idaho—just a minor coup attempt launched by the state’s lieutenant governor against the sitting governor as soon as he was out of the state.

Gov. Brad Little—who, like Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, is a Republican—traveled to Texas Tuesday for a meeting with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, and seven other governors about immigration and the border. Little is expected to be back in the state on Wednesday night. But on Tuesday, McGeachin issued what she called a “fix” to Little’s executive order banning vaccine mandates, so that now it also prohibits testing requirements.

Little said Tuesday that he would “be rescinding and reversing any actions taken by the Lt. Governor when I return.”

“I am in Texas performing my duties as the duly elected Governor of Idaho, and I have not authorized the Lt. Governor to act on my behalf,” Little said in a statement posted to Facebook.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7e9n9/idahos-maga-lt-governor-just-tried-to-seize-power-again

[Mad_Machine76]

1. Do people not get arrested for pulling stunts like this?

Seems like a foregone conclusion.

[Jilly_in_VA]

2. Not in Idaho, apparently

Anyway, she's an elected official.

[Mad_Machine76]

4. Elected officials still can and do go to jail

or I would hope they still do?

[lame54]

3. Meeting with Abbott and Kemp...

And he's not radical enough for the lt. Governor

[Mad_Machine76]

5. I know

LOL

[GoCubsGo]

8. Which stunt are we talking about here?

The attempted coup in Idaho, or the bullshit political theater stunt at the border? The whole fucking lot of them belong in prison. I'm just shocked that my asshole governor didn't participate in the border stunt.

[Mad_Machine76]

9. All of it

but mainly attempting to countermand the governor's authority.

[GoCubsGo]

10. Yeah, I find it hard to believe it's legal to do this.

Going to be interesting to see what happens when the governor returns.

[Renew Deal]

6. Is this legal?

Because obviously it shouldn't be.

[Jilly_in_VA]

7. I wonder

if she was in DC on Jan 6. Maybe even in the Capitol building. Maybe someone should look for her face in the many photos the FBI has.

[Kaleva]

11. MAGA Lt. Governor also ordered state National Guard to the Texas border

"An extraordinary public feud between Idaho's two top leaders escalated on Tuesday when the state's governor, Brad Little, accused fellow Republican Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin of overstepping her authority by ordering the state National Guard to the US-Mexico border while he was in Texas visiting the border."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/06/politics/idaho-national-guard-brad-little-janice-mcgeachin/index.html

[Kaleva]

12. Link to Article IV Section 12 of the Idaho Constitution

"Section 12. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR TO ACT AS GOVERNOR. In case of the failure to qualify, the impeachment, or conviction of treason, felony, or other infamous crime of the governor, or his death, removal from office, resignation, absence from the state, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the powers, duties and emoluments of the office for the residue of the term, or until the disability shall cease, shall devolve upon the lieutenant governor."

https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idconst/ArtIV/Sect12/

[gratuitous]

13. When the bullies run out of victims, they turn on each other

I do like, though, how Gov. Kemp is all upset about Lt. Gov. McGeachin's grandstanding while he's busy grandstanding - uninvited - down at the border.

[tanyev]

14. That is so weird.

What did she think would happen when he returned?

[Kaleva]

15. Make up sex?

[LiberalFighter]

16. Does she plan to primary the Governor?

[MissB]

17. Yes

She is running.

[Jilly_in_VA]

18. Idaho has gone plumb to hell

since the days of Frank Church. He must be on spin cycle these days.