Least Regulated State Claim – Complicit Leader or Asleep at the Wheel? Pick One.
There is no longer any doubt about what happened. The only question remains whether Brad Little was complicit or asleep at the wheel.
As the Gem State Patriot revealed, Brad Little’s Executive Order to Cut Red Tape set the wheels in motion to game the system and achieve the Least Regulated State title from the Mercatus Center. The Division of Financial Management empowered the 180 Agencies by telling them how to do it in their Agency Guide, which specified the 5 words to eliminate to achieve the coveted title.
Many suspected this was happening, but the hard data from Mercatus wasn’t available until now. Over 8000 examples can now be found on the Least Regulated State website.
There is no longer any doubt about what happened. The only question remains whether Brad Little was complicit or asleep at the wheel.
A Governor needs to be a leader. They’re the CEO of the state, not a figurehead. CEO’s delegate, but after they present their vision in an executive order, they are the most important check and balance. They must provide hands-on oversight. They must ask the most basic questions to ensure they don’t embarrass the people of Idaho by meeting with the President and Vice President and proclaiming that Idaho is “providing a template for other states and the federal government to follow” with simple word substitutions to game the system.
If this glaring lack of oversight happened with red tape, we can only wonder what’s happened with the management of our state's finances.
As Governor, I will be that CEO that answers to you, the shareholders of the state of Idaho, and provides the leadership, vision, and oversight that our great state deserves.
Ammon Bundy