Meet the Take Back Idaho PAC Board of Directors
Extremist organizations in Idaho use the confrontational politics playbook that is designed to intimidate and strike fear toward anyone who dares speak up against their misinformation. It takes courage to take a stand against the paper tiger organizations who attempt to force their agenda upon our state to benefit their donors and appease their base.
Our board members have been engaged in Idaho policy-making for decades. Our group includes former Idaho Attorney General and retired State Supreme Court Justice, former Republican Speaker of the House, former Secretary of State, state education leaders, and long-time advocates for common sense solutions.
Our non-partisan board represents Idaho values across the state.
Latest Articles
Idaho’s schools are not failing – let’s recognize their success
By Don Coberly, Geoffrey Thomas, Wil Overgaard At a recent House Education Committee hearing on HB627 (now revised as HB 723), a bill to move state funding for schools from average daily attendance (ADA) to enrollment, committee member Representative Judy Boyle said that she could not support continuing to pay for “failing schools.” She repeated the statement again for emphasis. Her comment came…
Read MoreElected Officials Must Unite in Rejecting Political Violence
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, March 18, 2022 MEDIA CONTACT Jennifer Ellis, Board Chair (208) 681 – 6004 Elected Officials Must Unite in Rejecting Political Violence Janice McGeachin joins Ammon Bundy in elevating extremists whose threats and doxxing shut down Idaho’s largest hospital BLACKFOOT, Idaho (March 18, 2022) – Take Back Idaho has released the following statement on the escalation of…
Read MoreIdaho Can Use Your Help
By Douglas Siddoway There was a time you could tell someone you were from Idaho and the only response it would elicit would be something about potatoes or the skiing in Sun Valley. I would know. I grew up in the southeastern part of the state. My family has farmed and ranched there for six generations. Mention the Gem State…
Read MoreTake Back Idaho Calls for McGeachin to Resign After Speech to White Nationalist Convention
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022 MEDIA CONTACT Jennifer Ellis, Board Chair(208) 681-6004 Take Back Idaho Calls for McGeachin to Resign After Speech to White Nationalist Convention AFPAC attendees shouted support for Putin during five-hour event BLACKFOOT, Idaho (Feb. 26, 2022) – Take Back Idaho issued the following statement, calling on Idaho Lieutenant Governor Janice McGeachin to resign after learning…
Read MoreBundy Dropping Out of Primary Consolidates Militia, Radical Extremist Support for McGeachin
Bundy’s failed campaign in debt as extremists continue to flock to Lt Gov McGeachin BOISE (Feb. 17, 2022) – Take Back Idaho, an anti-extremist group helmed by many life-long Idaho Republicans, has issued the following statement regarding Ammon Bundy’s decision to drop out of the Republican race for Idaho governor. From former Republican House Speaker Bruce Newcomb: “This Republican gubernatorial primary…
Read MoreWhat the education freedom pledge really means
There is a pledge being circulated throughout the United States whereby state legislators and governors can make a vow to privatize public education and “to take their children’s taxpayer-funded education dollars to the education providers of their choosing – whether it be public, private, charter, or homeschool” Idahoans can already choose to enroll their student(s) in public charter schools, which…
Read MoreStapilus: Tectonic shift
Don’t let anyone tell you Idaho politics is forever unchangeable. One of the biggest changes in its politics in the last generation is happening as we speak, and not very many people have even noticed. It is a change within the state’s dominant Republican Party, and its implications will become unavoidably clear in the coming year. A quarter-century ago, you’d…
Read MoreGroup aims to ‘take back’ Idaho from extremist politics
By MADISON HARDYStaff Writer | December 17, 2021 1:08 AM Recent claims of extremism in the Idaho Legislature have sparked a new citizen committee that hopes to “restore reason” to the lawmaking body in the 2022 election. The Take Back Idaho (TBI) political action committee features an array of past elected officials and public figures who stated in a news release that the…
Read MoreLongtime Idaho activists are bringing the fight to “extremist” lawmakers at the ballot box
A bipartisan group of longtime political activists and politicians is pushing back against Idaho legislators whom they view as “extremists.” Jennifer Ellis, a Blackfoot rancher and former president of the Idaho Cattle Association, will lead the Take Back Idaho Committee. “This vocal minority has replaced civility and common sense with conspiracy theories, fringe views, and cheap political theatre,” Ellis said in…
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Extreme Candidates Moon, Giddings Among von Ehlinger’s Champions
Today, the disgraced former legislator was convicted of rape BLACKFOOT, Idaho (April 29, 2022) – Take Back Idaho is drawing attention to the ties between officials running for constitutional office in the upcoming Republican primary and Aaron von Ehlinger, the 39-year-old former legislator who was convicted today of raping a 19-year-old statehouse intern, Jane Doe. “First of all, we want…
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