It turns out that Larry Craig has built quite a reputation for himself over the last three years as a friend to the migrant farm worker, who knew?
...and apparently in Idaho, arguing against forcing welfare recipients to work the fields to replace all the migrant pickers swept up in ICE raids makes you a leftist nut-job.
Toiling away with a coalition of both migrant groups and growers, Craig has taken a progressively open and wide stance *ahem* on immigration and has been instrumental in designing a Guest Worker Program that both sides could live with. AgJobs was one component of the larger Senate immigration package that was derailed earlier this year. Farm, labor and immigrant groups are all pushing to have the AgJobs bill introduced on its own merits this year. California Sen. Diane Feinstein is a co-sponsor of the bill, but Craig was a strong conservative advocate for the bill and his loss is a challenge for supporters.
Needless to say many conservatives in Idaho are happy to see the back of him *ahem*.
