(Idaho Freedom Foundation) It’s been almost two months since legislative auditors revealed that Gov. Brad Little’s administration forced taxpayers to pay for programs that the Legislature considered too woke to support, and yet so far no one has been held accountable. Nor has it been made clear: Was it malfeasance or misfeasance that contributed to the misallocation of funds?
Whatever the answer, the director of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (IDHW), David Jeppesen, deserves to lose his job not only for presiding over this boondoggle but also for defending it in the aftermath. State officials must continue their work to get to the bottom of what went wrong at the agency, including whether criminal charges are in order.
The Idaho Freedom Foundation’s Niklas Kleinworth carefully outlined some of the more egregious violations by the Department of Health and Welfare… (Read More)
