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Larry Craig can still embrace Idaho by disappearing into its wild frontiers

By Jim Banholzer

A few years back, I told a serious businesswoman, about two Bull Moose I saw, that were partying up Democrat Gulch out Croy Canyon. “Where’s that?” She asked. I replied, “That’s the draw you pass every day on your way to work, about a mile from your house and over by that steaming hot spring you can smell after Bullion winds west.” She had no clue, about what I was talking and probably would not have recognized a twelve-hundred-pound pressed moose track, even if she had tripped nose-first over one of its antlers. It tazed me, that this woman rolling in the dough, had such poor tunnel vision towards the great outdoors of her own backyard.

I’ve seen more than a handful of people up here in Sun Valley, driven hard to make more money, even after they have already earned and stuffed several million into the banks. Why would anybody need more than two or three million $$’s to thrive on? Sadly, many rich-on-paper folks hardly know what to do with them selves, once it’s clear that time has come for them to retreat from their lengthy career paths. Lifelong ingrained habits of hard focused work sometimes make the act of reinventing oneself an enormous challenge.

As up until recently, Larry Craig had been a long and hardworking U.S. Senator, ceaselessly examining what was best for his constituents, it’s easy to see how he might fit into this category of having scrabbled his fingers to the bone, with never enough time to enjoy fully with his family, many of the vast recreational opportunities his own Idaho has to offer. However, since this hall-of-fame era of his, may soon be closing to a draw, perhaps now is a good time for the Senator to refocus on which sections of the newspaper he would like to read first each morning.

The Statesman sports and Outdoors Idaho sections brim over with tips about hunting, fishing, hiking, biking, river rafting, warm springs and dozens of other outdoorsy activities. Perhaps Senator Craig with some of the powerful influence he still has remaining, can sway his delivery person to drop off these sections only, flinging the rest of the paper with his name in the mud where it belongs.

Certainly, senior Senator Craig has earned one of the finest pension plans, with gracious health benefits available. Now it is harvest time for him to start enjoying those benefits, by taking advantage of the copious prospects afforded by his situation in this splendid land -rather than further tarnishing it for us all, by dragging out his mostly unwanted stay with great distraction and weak excuses for clearing his name. Which has resulted in more jokes manufactured about Idaho than Simplot has ever produced potatoes.

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