Russ Fulcher
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Russ Fulcher (R), Meridian, 55, is a fourth-generation
Idahoan who believes in the industriousness and
ingenuity of Idahoans. He wants our state to be a great
place for families and businesses.
He is deeply concerned about the direction of our state
and our nation. The overreach of government, both from
Washington, D.C. and from Boise, is threatening our
future. (Source: Fulcher website)
Fulcher was born in Boise but grew up on a dairy farm in
Meridian. He married Kara Fulcher and together they have
three children. Fulcher received both a bachelor's and
master's degree in business administration from Boise
State University in 1984 and 1988. He also completed a
course on electronic engineering through Micron
Technology.
In 2005, Fulcher was appointed by Governor Dirk
Kempthorne to the Idaho State Senate representing
Idaho's 21st Legislative District. Fulcher was first
elected in 2006 and served till 2012. He then served in
the Idaho Senate representing District 22 from 2012 to
2014. He served has State Senate Majority Caucus Leader
from 2013 to 2014.
While a member of the Idaho legislature, Fulcher worked
in the commercial real estate business. Prior to that,
he was in Idaho’s technology industry doing business in
47 countries for 24 years. Fulcher spent much of that
time working in international sales with Micron
Technology. Fulcher currently works in the commercial
real estate business. (Source: Candidate's website, Wikipedia) |
Nick Henderson
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Nick Henderson (R), Post Falls, was born into a mining
family at Kootenai Medical Center, Coeur d’Alene. His
father's career in took his family overseas, where Nick
spent his youth growing up in mining towns around the
world. This experience gave him a broad perspective when
it comes to the world, the international community and
how nuances in different cultures can shape global
policy.
After returning to Idaho, Nick moved to Moscow to
continue his education. Not long after he had moved
back, radical terrorists attacked us on September 11. It
was during this attack that he felt compelled to
service.
Nick graduated with honors and shortly thereafter
fulfilled his promise to serve. He enlisted in the U.S.
Army as an infantryman, and he served primarily with the
4th Infantry Division. He saw heavy fighting in Iraq.
The Army had a profound impact on shaping his leadership
skills and style.
Nick finished his tour of duty and was honorably
discharged, and began pursuing his life-long ambition,
commercial pilot training. Not long after he began
working in Alaska, he found himself serving as a
legislative aide for Representative Cathy Munoz.
Eventually, he moved to Senator Charlie Huggin's office
in the Senate and House Joint Veterans Affairs Caucus.
In the position he worked directly with law makers to
craft legislation to support and advance the needs and
care of Veterans in the state and across the country.
His work in Alaska focused primarily on Veterans issues,
but included a wide scope of responsibilities covering
budget issues, community development, resource
development, and constituent relations. During this
period, Governor Sarah Palin appointed Nick as a
Commissioner on the ServeAlaska Commission, which
focused on community service across the state.
Over the past half-decade Nick has been working as a
commercial pilot around the world, flying multiple
aircraft in a handful of countries. Recognizing the
future of the aviation industry Nick started his own
company, Aerial Resources Group. Starting this company
allowed Nick to move back home to Post Falls, to put
down roots in his beloved Idaho, where his family has a
rich history and heritage he cherishes. (Source:
Candidate's website) |
David H. Leroy
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David H. Leroy (R), Boise, 70, has had a career in
public service that has included terms as Ada County
Prosecutor, Idaho Attorney General, Idaho Lieutenant
Governor, Acting Governor of Idaho for 254 days and
United States Nuclear Waste Negotiator.
Dave is a book and article author, and a constant
speaker on the GOP Lincoln Day circuit and for the Idaho
Humanities Council explaining the historic relationship
of the 16th President to our State and even challenging
listeners with a lecture on “What would Abraham Lincoln
say to Donald Trump?” Nancy and Dave Leroy donated 210
Lincoln artifacts to the permanent 5 room “Lincoln
Legacy” museum exhibit at the Idaho Archives Building.
Other Lincoln historical items from Leroy are on display
in the Idaho Statehouse, in and around the Lincoln
Auditorium.
Raised in Lewiston, educated in Moscow at the University
of Idaho, Dave holds three college degrees, including a
Juris Doctorate and Masters of Law. He is a grandfather
with two children, Jordan a lawyer and mom, and Adam, an
archaeologist and father. Nancy, Dave’s wife, is a
former Miss Boise and Miss Boise State University and
has a degree in Sociology from that institution.
(Source: Leroy website)
Leroy was elected Attorney General of Idaho in 1978. In
1982 he was elected lieutenant governor, replacing Phil
Batt, who was a candidate for governor that year. Leroy
served as lieutenant governor during the administration
of Governor John V. Evans. In 1986 Leroy won the
Republican nomination for Governor of Idaho. He lost in
the general election to former Democratic Governor Cecil
D. Andrus.
Leroy was appointed by President George H. W. Bush as
United States Nuclear Waste Negotiator in 1990. He
served in that capacity until 1993.
In 1994 he ran for the Republican nomination to the
United States House of Representatives from the Idaho
1st Congressional District. He finished second behind
Helen Chenoweth. (Source: Wikipedia) |
Luke Malek
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Luke Malek (R), Coeur d'Alene currently represents the
Coeur d’Alene area in the Idaho House. His transition
from the ranches of Wyoming to the mountains of North
Idaho was a natural one. He grew up helping with
irrigation and fixing fence and spent summers stacking
hay bales and shoeing horses. He earned a scholarship to
the College of Idaho and became student body president
at a time when the college was struggling for survival.
Malek spent his college years fighting to keep Idaho’s
premier liberal arts college from becoming a technical
institute, and The College of Idaho continues strong
today. Post-graduation, he was instrumental in the
transition of Dirne Free Clinic to the full-blown
Heritage Community Health Center it is today.
After serving the city of Post Falls, Luke decided to
further serve his community he needed a law degree. He
spent two and a half years in Moscow earning his Juris
Doctorate from the University of Idaho, but couldn’t
stay away from service. Even before he graduated six
months early, he began his law career in the Kootenai
County Prosecutor’s Office.
Luke answered the call to service once again when
Representative Marge Chadderdon asked him to run for her
seat in 2012. He worked to keep federal control out of
Idaho’s healthcare, fought for mental health crisis
centers across the state, and renewing Idaho’s roads.
In addition to serving Idaho in the legislature, Luke
started Smith + Malek, a law firm serving Idahoans from
Sandpoint to Boise.
Malek believes that government should meet constituents'
needs and not the agenda of a far-off interest group.
His priorities will remain with the people he serves.
(Source: Candidate's website) |
Donald Miller
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Donald Miller (D), Meridian |
Christy Perry
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Christy Perry (R), Nampa, represents District 11B in the
Idaho House of Representatives. She was first elected to
the chamber in 2010 and is currently serving her fourth
term in the Idaho State Legislature.
She was raised in a military family and grew up in
Middleton, graduating from Middleton High School. From
an early age, her family instilled in her strong
conservative, Christian values and a tireless work
ethic. Christy graduated Summa Cum Laude with her
bachelor’s degree in political science from the Honors
College at Boise State University.
Christy and husband, Matt, also a Middleton native, have
been married for nearly 25 years.
Together, they have made every effort to pass on these
core values to their three children and, now, three
grandchildren. Christy is also the proud mother of an
Iraq war veteran.
As a small business owner, Christy understands how
important it is to minimize government regulation to
allow businesses to thrive. Christy and her husband,
Matt, co-own Buckhorn Gun Shop, a full-service gun shop
which has proudly been supporting Second Amendment
rights for more than 36 years. Christy and her husband
are lifetime members of the NRA and are active in the
shooting sports and affiliated organizations.
Christy is also an avid hunter and fisher, enjoying all
that Idaho has to offer. She is committed to preserving
recreational and sportsmen’s rights and was heavily
involved in the “Save the Lake” campaign and the “Death
of Recreation” parade in the face of the federal
government’s efforts to restrict access to Lake Lowell
in Canyon County at the expense of the local economy.
Garnering national attention from FOX News and others,
the efforts of Christy successfully combated the federal
encroachment on our land and water rights and ensured
continued access to Lake Lowell. (Source:
Candidate's website) |
Michael W. Smith
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Michael W. Smith (D), Post Falls, is a 14 year veteran
of both the United States Marine Corps and the U.S.
Army. Supporting his campaign, he said, will bring the
balance of our government back.
"As it stands now," he wrote, "all aspects of our
government are controlled by Republican interests. This
is a dangerous situation that has not happened since the
Great Depression!"
Calling himself a progressive Democrat, Smith is
fighting for a single payer healthcare system, a
movement toward green and renewable energy, a nation
wide living wage, lowering taxes on anyone making less
than $750k annually and any business making less than $5
million annually, ending for profit prisons, reforming
police policy regarding shootings and improving
relations with the public, working to fix exorbitant
student debt, protecting our national lands from
privatized resource harvesting, nationally legalizing
recreational marijuana, creating a path to citizenship
that also increases our nation's security through
immigration reform, investing in our decaying
infrastructure, reforming defense spending to get better
wages for service members instead of overcharging
defense contractors and defending and expanding Social
Security. (Sources: Candidate's Facebook, GoFundMe
pages) |
Michael Snyder
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Michael Snyder (R), Bonners Ferry, is the author of four
books, he has been a frequent guest on major radio and
television shows all over the nation and his websites
have been viewed more than 100 million times.
His father was in the U.S. Navy, so as a child he moved
around quite frequently. After spending six years in
Italy during his formative years, Snyder’s family
settled in northern Virginia, where he attended high
school. He attended the University of Virginia, where he
received a Bachelor of Science in Commerce, and later he
went on to law school at the University of Florida,
where he received two degrees.
He worked as an attorney for several years in Washington
D.C., but since late 2009 he has made a living through
his writing.
In 2005, Michael married a remarkable woman named
Meranda, and today they have a little two-year-old
daughter named Atarah. They have been living in Bonners
Ferry for almost six years.
Throughout his life, he has been known as a fighter for
conservative causes. He knows what it is like to stand
outside on winter mornings protesting abortion clinics
in the freezing cold, and he has personally participated
in the March for Life in Washington. Michael is not just
another politician who uses the “Pro-Life” label to get
votes. He has been a Pro-Life warrior for decades, and
today his articles about abortion are some of the most
widely read on the Internet.
Snyder is also a vigorous advocate for freedom and
liberty. He wants a federal government that is much more
limited in size and scope, and wants to transfer as much
power back to the state governments and the people as
possible.
A Bible-believing Christian, Snyder has ministered all
over the country, and his personal relationship with
Jesus Christ is at the very core of everything that he
does and everything that he is. Many politicians are
very hesitant to talk about their faith, but Michael is
not ashamed to say that there is no hope for this nation
unless we turn back to God. (Source: Candidate's
website) |
James Vandermaas
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James Vandermaas (D), Eagle, Idaho, was born in
Maryland, has two sisters and was abandoned by his
father when he was just a one year old. His mother did
the best she could, but they were raised in poverty.
From about nine years old, James and his sisters had to
work hard and contribute all they earned to help support
the family.
He has an early history of the public service spirit; at
fourteen he volunteered at a local fire department and
later became a fireman/EMT-paramedic. Later, he turned
to a career in law enforcement, from which he retired.
Even while in law enforcement, he started several
businesses, ran a successful telecommunications company,
and has done business consulting and work on non-profits
since.
James is proud of his three wonderful sons. He has been
“mister mom” since 2000, eventually with full custody,
and like many of us juggled quality time, work and
daycare for years. His oldest son is a Marine who served
for nine years in the United States Marines Corps with
three tours in Iraq. His middle son is now working in
Florida to be close to his sweetheart, and his youngest
still lives here in Idaho.
James has a wide range of knowledge and experience
including business management and consulting,
police/fire 911 communications, dispatcher/trainer, SWAT
Team, GIS crime analysis mapping, Technical Services
Unit, Vice-President on the P.A.L. (Police Activities
League) Board, mentoring to youth and troubled kids to
prevent gang activity and more.
"I am tired of sitting on the sidelines when I know the
people of Idaho are not being properly represented or
respected," he said. "I have good ideas and solutions
that can help make life better for us all." (Source:
Candidate's website) |
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