Frank Henderson
One of the Idaho Legislature’s champions of roads funding is stepping down from the budget panel.
Representative Frank Henderson, a Post Falls Republican, told House leaders he wants off the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee when the 2011 session starts in January.
That leaves the 20-member House and Senate panel without Henderson, a lawmaker who sought to be a peacemaker on the often-disputed Idaho Transportation Department budget.
He often found himself in the middle of debate over the “Connecting Idaho” road building plan, whose debt provisions ran afoul of conservatives.
Henderson, who says he’s now the oldest Idaho lawmaker at nearly 88, has no 2010 general election opponent.
He told The Associated Press Monday he wants off the budget committee so he can devote more time to economic development legislation. (AP)
