memories of a childhood aversion to salamanders led ken andrus to oppose making salamanders the state amphibian. somebody give that man a noogie. the girl who started this campaign in the fourth grade in idaho, she did not give up, she said she would not and she has not. she is now 14, she started this in fourth grade. today, she started to win. today. her bill got through the idaho house even though the guy who said he could not vote for it because salamanders are ugly, but she has stuck with it since fourth grade, she is now 14. she is now getting it done. that earnest perseverance is infectious especially when faced with so called adult opposition that makes no sense or is