BOISE — At this town hall, there was no heckling nor heated debates on campaign issues.
Instead, legislators from opposite sides of the aisle came together at Boise State’s Student Union to ponder one uniting theme: the “common welfare,” as referenced in the preamble to the Idaho State Constitution, before turning the matter over to the attendees.
Republican Treg Bernt (Senate District 21) and Democrat Melissa Wintrow (Senate District 19) appeared at the Tuesday event put on by BSU’s Institute for Advancing American Values, a project which seeks to facilitate dialogue across divides about the principles central to the nation…