{"id":13632,"date":"2012-12-06T14:13:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T21:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=13632"},"modified":"2012-12-06T14:13:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T21:13:34","slug":"what-were-reading-idaho-legislative-leadership-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/12\/06\/what-were-reading-idaho-legislative-leadership-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"What We&#8217;re Reading: Idaho Legislative Leadership Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Idaho&#8217;s House of Representatives will start its 2013 legislative session under new leadership.\u00a0 The Republican majority voted out incumbent <a title=\"Meet Idaho Representative Lawerence Denney\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/lawerence-denney\/\" target=\"_blank\">Speaker Lawerence Denney (R-Midvale)<\/a> last night.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s more about what that means from the<em> Spokesman Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-roundup\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2012\/dec\/05\/idaho-house-speaker-denney-ousted\/\" target=\"_blank\">Idaho House speaker Denney ousted<\/a> &#8212; Three-term Idaho House Speaker Lawerence Denney, arguably the most powerful member of the Idaho Legislature, lost his leadership post tonight to rival Rep. Scott Bedke, R-Oakley, in a dramatic political upset.\u00a0 The ouster, which happened during closed-door legislative caucus elections, marked the first time in three decades that a top Idaho legislative leader has been deposed by his own party. \u00a0<em>Spokesman Review<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"link-roundup\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted2.ap.org\/IDIDF\/da3fe38944e7455284f48031646191ec\/Article_2012-12-05-Democratic%20Leadership\/id-ffad9dcf4a6d49a18b340dbca063d751\" target=\"_blank\">Minority Dems elect legislative leaders in Idaho<\/a> &#8212; Idaho&#8217;s minority Democrats in the House and Senate elected leaders for the 2013 session.\u00a0 The House&#8217;s 13 Democratic members reaffirmed Rep. John Rusche of Lewiston as minority leader Wednesday. <em>The Associated Press <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idaho&#8217;s House of Representatives will start its 2013 legislative session under new leadership.\u00a0 The Republican majority voted out incumbent Speaker Lawerence Denney (R-Midvale) last night.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s more about what that means from the Spokesman Review. Idaho House speaker Denney ousted &#8212; Three-term Idaho House Speaker Lawerence Denney, arguably the most powerful member of the Idaho [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[210],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}