...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO
9 PM MDT THIS EVENING...
* WHAT...Temperatures up to 105 expected.
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rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
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CANYON COUNTY -; A Nampa woman who is unhappy with a
controversial opinion column written by Caldwell state
representative Curtis Bowers has set up an Internet petition
calling for him to apologize or resign.
The petition asking for Bowers, a Republican, to resign had 17
signatures as of Wednesday evening. Five of the people signing the
petition listed Boise as their hometown.
Eileen Wight, 42, set up the petition. Bowers could not be
reached for comment Wednesday.
"I think what he's doing is trying to divide people," Wight
said, "and I just wanted to send that message to him that that's
not what Idaho or Canyon County needs."
Bowers' column, which ran in the Press-Tribune Jan. 9, drew
dozens of letters and Web site responses both critical and
supportive of the freshman representative's views.
In the column Bowers talked about a meeting of a Communist Party
offshoot group in Berkeley, Calif., that he attended in 1992. He
said the group spoke of feminism, environmentalism and the
"homosexual movement" as ways to weaken the United States. Bowers
wrote that those agendas have had success and should be
resisted.
Bowers' column hit on "hot button issues," Wight said, adding
that's why so many of his constituents have come to his
defense.
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"But equal rights for women and gay people aren't destroying
families," Wight said. "It makes families stronger in some
respect."
Gov. Butch Otter appointed Bowers to his District 10 seat last
year to replace moderate Republican Bob Ring, who resigned for
health reasons. Bowers has since written another opinion column
defending his original submission.
A spokesman for the governor said Bowers is entitled to his own
views.
"As the governor has indicated time and time again,
(legislators) have a right to express their opinions," Otter
spokesman Jon Hanian said. "We don't necessarily react to
everything they say, especially this early in the session."
Canyon County Republican Party Chairman Todd Lakey said Bowers
was expressing the values of his constituents.
"I think Curtis is a good person, a good representative with
values that reflect his constituents in Canyon County," Lakey said.
"I think some of the critics are overreacting. Representative
Bowers has a good, Christian values system."
