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Saturday, April 18th, 2015

GOPers Put Idaho At Risk Of Losing $46 Million Over Fear Of Creeping Sharia Law

Author:     KIMBERLEE KRUESI
Source:     Talking Points Media
Publication Date:     April 13, 2015, 5:43 PM EDT
 Link: GOPers Put Idaho At Risk Of Losing $46 Million Over Fear Of Creeping Sharia Law
Stephan:   This is what legislatures in the Red value states spend their time on. This is why little that increases wellness gets handled. These bodies are run by politicians whose rabid ideology and crass ignorance renders rational policy making impossible
Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll, R-Cottonwood, center, talks with Senators Russell Fulcher, R-Meridian, left, and Clifford Bayer, R-Ada, while the Senate is at ease, following Nuxoll's motion to begin the amendment process, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 in Boise, Idaho. Idaho senators voted Thursday to back the governor's plan to create a state-based nonprofit insurance exchange, rather than defaulting to an exchange run by the federal government, as many other Republican-led states have done. Credit: AP Photo/The Idaho Statesman, Katherine Jones

Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll, R-Cottonwood, center, talks with Senators Russell Fulcher, R-Meridian, left, and Clifford Bayer, R-Ada, while the Senate is at ease Credit: AP Photo/The Idaho Statesman, Katherine Jones

, IDAHO  — Idaho officials face a looming deadline to maintain tens of millions of dollars in funding after a bill that would have brought the state into compliance with federal rules was killed when conservative legislators said it would have subjected the state to fundamentalist Islamic law.

The state Health Department said Monday that without a revision in the next two months they stand to lose access to programs […]

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