BOISE, Idaho (AP) — As 400 Tea Party activists rallied outside Idaho Capitol to shout down federal government, more than a dozen lawmakers have quietly formed a smaller but equally conservative new group inside the building to pursue similar goals: promote gun rights, kill health care reform, maybe even abolish the Federal Reserve.
Members of this ad-hoc state House group have drafted a charter they’re calling “Platform for Prosperity,” after a similar Republican movement in Colorado.
They said they aren’t directly linked to Tea Party organizers.
Still, at least four Platform affiliates were featured speakers at Monday’s hour-long gathering on the Capitol’s south steps, including Phil Hart of Athol.
Hart says, “We are for nullifying anything coming out of Washington, D.C. where they don’t have constitutional authority to act.”
