Since Franklin Roosevelt, Morris has been unenthusiastic about the candidates the Democratic Party has nominated for president. She believes Hillary Clinton is too much of a hawk and too big a pawn of Wall Street. She arrived in Garden City for the convention on Wednesday and says she will support only delegates to the national convention who support Sanders. Morris was one of three Boundary County delegates elected to the Idaho Democratic State Convention. And she hasn’t given up hope, though voting has ended leaving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with a large lead. In the months since Sanders’ big Idaho win, Morris’ strong support for Sanders hasn’t ebbed. Next week, they will celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary. Her husband, Bill, suffering from memory problems, moved to assisted living a couple years ago, but she still occasionally takes him to stay overnight at the cabin they bought and fixed up in 1992. She climbs a ladder to get to her bedroom every night.

Morris, who turned 90 last month, lives in a cabin in the forest in Boundary County.

Of the nearly 200 participants of the Democratic Caucus in Boundary County, 84 percent supported Sanders, a figure higher than Sanders’ support in any other Idaho county – not including a county that had only four voters. “The slightest chance, and I’ll accost them on the street,” she said. “And I’d say, ‘How do you like my button? If we elect him, we’ll probably be doing this.” She would end by pointing to her other button. “I’d have this on,” she said, pointing to her Bernie Sanders campaign button. In the months before Idaho’s Democratic presidential caucus in March, Morris would stop people on the sidewalks of Bonners Ferry. On the other, a button says “wage peace.”

She even set up her first email account, on her 90 th birthday, because she needed one to register for the convention.ĩ0-year-old Idaho Democratic delegate hasn’t given up hope for Bernie SandersīONNERS FERRY, Idaho - On one side of her jean jacket, Faye Morris wears a “Bernie” button. Faye Morris has long cared about politics, but this is her first time as a convention delegate. With the Idaho Democratic Party’s state convention under way in Garden City, here’s a look at a 90-year-old delegate from Bonners Ferry who’s a dedicated Bernie Sanders backer.

Kids We Were by Bernie Morris