MOSCOW – Idaho state Rep. Paulette Jordan announced Thursday that she's running for governor in 2018, with the goal of helping Idaho become “the state it's destined to become.”

Speaking to a crowd of about 60 family members and friends on the occasion of her 38th birthday, the two-term Plummer Democrat put her hopes and dreams for the state that raised her on full display.

“I don't want (Idaho) to be just a state,” she said. “I want to make Idaho the state that it's destined to become, which is the greatest state in the history of the United States. We can get there.”

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