Death Threat made to [university] presidential candidate. (Idaho)

[Q3JR4]

At around 8 a.m. Monday morning, ASBSU Secretary Debby Flores discovered a strange white envelope on her keyboard. Upon opening it, she found a letter threatening the life of ASBSU presidential candidate Taylor Newbold.

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Boise City Police arrived at the scene and took the letter for evidence.

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Newbold said he has never received a death threat before, and he is taking this letter very seriously.

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This is not the first time Newbold has been harassed due to his sexual orientation at Boise State. In April of last year, swastikas and the word "fag" were drawn all over a picture that hung near the student activities office. He filled a police report, but the culprit was never caught.

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After the last incident the university didn't do much of anything. As president of the gay organization on campus here in Boise, I plan to force the issue.

I plan to contact the only openly gay legislator to ever be elected to an Idaho house of congress, Nicole Lefavour, about this issue to see if she'd be willing to push for hate crimes protection for gays and lesbians on the state level. There's a very good chance that that won't happen, but at least we can show the Boise State administration and the legislature here in Idaho that someone out there is watching everything they do.

[whistle]

1. Good God! The KKK seems to be alive and well in Idaho...

...and is rising again through the ranks of the GOP.

[davidinalameda]

2. good for you

I remember what it was like being one of the few openly gay student leaders and the hell I caught

but never death threats--I can't imagine

I'm glad to see him staying in the race

[Q3JR4]

3. This is going to be big,

We plan to rally next week against this hate crime.

Already I've been contacted by six faculty members and one of those has a list of 50 students who volunteered to do something to help.

Idaho Progressive Student Alliance is calling up its reserves to help us hit this issue.

People are really pissed off.

[Q3JR4]

4. There have been

hundreds of emails changed on this issue and many people and organizations on campus are angry that this even happened.

Just goes to show that even in conservative Idaho people are pissed off by this shit.