Idaho’s Republican lieutenant governor and gubernatorial candidate, Janice McGeachin, attended a gathering where she was endorsed in a glowing introductory speech by a rightwing militia leader, as revealed in a video obtained by the Guardian. Earlier that year, Parker founded the Real 3% of Idaho as an unincorporated non-profit organization. Lindsay Schubiner, program director at the Western States Center, a progressive non-profit whose work includes monitoring extremist groups in the region, said that Parker’s video “demonstrated his cozy relationship with McGeachin”. She described the relationship between such a senior politician and the far-right militia figure as “deeply disturbing”. Neither McGeachin nor Parker responded to repeated attempts to contact them for comment.

Source: The Guardian June 09, 2021 06:56 UTC