![]() Like Fulcher, Rodriguez said Otter's state-run health insurance exchange was his chief motive for running. Russ Fulcher, Otter's principal challenger, picked Rodriguez to introduce him at his November campaign announcement. "I think it's very close," said Martin, 64, a former Army medic, retired teacher, businessman and aide to former Congressman George Hansen, an Idaho conservative icon. ![]() John Andreason in 2012, said he's worried. Martin, who succeeded 18-year veteran moderate GOP Sen. The contest in a Senate district with a history of electing pro-education Republicans is perhaps the hottest down-ticket example of the clash between the Idaho GOP's tea party wing and the establishment headed by Gov. ![]() The founder of the Power Marketing Consultants Network, which he calls the "largest network of professional marketing agencies in the world," Rodriguez has run a sophisticated campaign keyed by about 10 mailings to 1,860 likely-to-vote GOP households. Rodriguez, 36, is a salesman, professional speaker and former volunteer pastor who moved from Fresno, Calif., in 2011, with his wife, whom he describes as "smoking hot" in campaign literature, and their children. Constitution? Where did our founders promote that the role of government is to educate the public? It's not part of our history and it doesn't work." Fred Martin of Boise in Tuesday's GOP primary. "Education isn't even a legitimate role of government anyway," said the first-time candidate challenging Sen.
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