Ammon Bundy running for Idaho governor

Ammon Bundy has formally announced his run for governor with a platform centred on abolishing most state taxes and claiming federal public land for the state. After an afternoon picnic with ‘‘Bundy burgers’’ at Kleiner Park, in Meridian, the man from Emmett who is banned from the Idaho Statehouse grounds announced he is running. Bundy is known for disputing federal ownership of public land. In 2016, he and others took part in a six-week-long armed takeover of a wildlife reserve in Malheur, Oregon, that left one occupier dead.