Idaho is not typically the sort of place where political disagreement runs rampant. But there's a major fight underway — over the state's coronavirus response, no less — between Gov. Brad Little and Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin. | Analysis by CillizzaCNN
And yet, there's a major fight underway -- over the state's coronavirus response, no less! -- between Gov. Brad Little and Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin. The Idaho Statesman's Cynthia Sewell reported last week that the two top Republican elected officials haven't spoken to each other in three weeks, and that McGeachin has personally defied Little's executive orders to control the spread of the coronavirus in the Gem State. .
In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Click to subscribe!"She left the Legislature's 2020 session early — the lieutenant governor presides over the Senate — to attend to her family business, a restaurant and pub in Idaho Falls. She has attended or supported rallies opposing Little's stay-home order and has been urging him to let businesses re-open.
Over this past weekend -- perhaps due in part to McGeachin's criticism -- Little moved the state to the second stage of the reopening process and moved the reopening of bars up to stage 3 instead of stage 4."We are one of the first states to reopen our economy," Little said.Given all of that, it's hard not to see the not-so-hidden hand of politics in all of this.
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