[King, who has lived in Idaho for 28 years, said she is proud of rural Custer County and noted that she still votes by paper ballot in the nearby town of Clayton. A sign near her house says] Welcome to Challis, Gateway to Wilderness. ... It does not say 'Gateway to Off-Road Vehicle Trails.'

These are large, rural areas, so how many trauma centers can you have in Idaho, realistically? But on the other hand, there are some changes that lawmakers could make that don't have a lot to do with being rural. A seat belt law could be enacted, and given those vast expanses of highways, that might be a good decision to make — especially since there aren't a lot of trauma centers in Idaho.

You still want to keep the county relatively rural, so that it's an attractive place to live.

We are a very rural county. Our hands were just tied. Now citizens have a recourse.

Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discernment and my father's strength.

It's very much changed since it was the Custer Hotel.