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Californian Seeks Larry Craig’s Idaho Senate Seat
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Mar 28, 2008 02:19pm |
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| News Date | Friday, March 21, 2008 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Hal Styles lives in Southern California, and he’s never been to Idaho. But he’s running in Idaho’s open Republican primary for United States Senate.
From his home in Desert Hot Springs, just a few miles from the better-known Palm Springs, he returned my call and exuberantly held forth. “The reason I want to be the U.S. Senator from Idaho? It’s one of the western states and I must stay in the west, and everything I’ve heard about Idaho is beautiful and gorgeous, and I want to serve America, it’s in my blood. What better place than the Senate where I can serve the desires and wishes of Idahoans and then come home and say OKAY, TEAM! What do you want, what do you like?”
Styles refuses to tell his age but his life story puts him in his 70s or early 80s. He says he’s “moving to Boise sometime soon but I can’t say exactly when.”
From his merry opening shout of, “It’s HAL, your PAL, I’d like to take you to Washington with me!” to his goodbye said through tears over a story that touched him, Styles seems like your outlandish, hat-wearing grandfather – the one who heads up the Cub Scouts so he can teach ‘em patriotism, annoying camp songs and the best pranks in town.
“A year and half ago I read an article about the ten best places to live and in there is Idaho. Boise was in there. Your tax dollars sent me to Pensacola a long time ago where I learned to fly PLANES and land them on tiny little SHIPS – that’s how the Navy does it, not those big Air Force ships, little TINY ships – so I told Collette my wife, we’ve got to check it out. If I don’t do something every 72 hours I go crazy. You have outdoors there, mountains and outdoors and there I can FLY!” |
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