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Murphy, Idaho is an unincorporated town in Owyhee County in the southwestern part of the state. It is the county seat of Owyhee County, and it is one of the smallest county seats in the nation.
From the Idaho.gov website: For Governor Otter, making sure government maintains its role as the people's servant requires keeping in touch with all Idahoans. He also knows that the strength of our Republic relies on an engaged and informed citizenry.
That's why Governor Otter and members of his Cabinet travel to a rural town in a different Idaho county every month. The communities become Idaho's Capital for a Day, and their residents the focus of the Governor and his administration for an entire day. Idahoans ask questions, share their opinions, and seek answers from State agencies.
"It is our job in State government to ensure people in communities all over Idaho have a real say in determining their own future. It shouldn't be the case that folks in Boise have a greater role in contributing their civic virtue to our statewide discussions than people in Moyie Springs or Malad, Ferdinand or Firth, Wallace or Wendell," Governor Otter said. "That´s why I bring 'Capital for a Day' to a different rural town every month – to listen, learn, and solve some problems if we can."
Click for a brochure on the “Capital for a Day program (pdf)
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Is there really enough danger of the state government getting so out of touch with the common people in a rural, sparsely-populated state like Idaho to justify the relatively steep expense associated with this? Is there a huge popular interest in it? Just sounds like another political stunt to me.
How do you know there's a "steep" expense involved? It doesn't look like they're hauling a lot of things, just people and probably laptops and phones. I think its an excellent idea. City concerns and rural concerns can be very far apart.
Yeah, those massive Idaho megagopoli. Full of all of those elite, out-of-touch urbanites, who never go anywhere past where the subways run to. LOL.
Moving all those people and paying them per diem is a big expense for a relatively small state, population and economy-wise, even if there is more than adequate revenue from all of the potatoes and skiing. Guess that if this is what the people want, they'll all get re-elected and keep on doing it. Glad it's not my tax money.
They immediately started proposing and passing broad legislation, which will become known as "Murphy Laws"