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"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
- Thomas Jefferson
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State Chairman: Paul Venable
208-402-4635 – P. O. Box 695, Parma, Idaho 83660
State Secretary and Kootenai County Chair :
Mary Rutkowski
208-773-6698
State Treasurer: Bruce Ankeny
P. O. Box 705, Kuna, Idaho 83634
208-463-0627
Canyon County Chair: Susan Venable
208-412-0284
Bonneville County – Idaho Falls Area Contact:
Jared Nickle
208-523-1378 – 169 College Street, Idaho Falls, Idaho 83402
Bannock County – Pocatello Area Contact:
Merrill Tew
208-904-4437 – 529-A Raven Way, Chubbock, Idaho 83202
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Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another...It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man... |
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