No More Politics, Echohawk Says

Larry EchoHawk, the former Idaho attorney general who lost the 1994 election for governor to Republican Phil Batt, said Wednesday he does not plan to run for political office again.

The secretary of state’s office received EchoHawk’s termination report. The candidate closed his Idaho campaign account by writing himself a check for $5,746 and said he will declare it as personal income.

EchoHawk also paid four of his children amounts ranging from $250 to $625 for what he listed as campaign services.

“I’m not planning on running again,” he said in a telephone interview Wednesday. “That’s why I’m closing the account instead of just carrying it over.”

Within days of his 34,760-vote defeat by Batt, EchoHawk was employed at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University.

He went with a one-semester appointment but was appointed for another year last September.

EchoHawk and his wife, Terry, are graduates of BYU. Two children are enrolled at the school and a third is expected to start studies this month.

Terry EchoHawk works part time at the Mormon Church’s Missionary Training Center at Provo, Utah, and also is a nurse at the student health center.

EchoHawk’s termination report showed contributions of $16,822 and spending of $43,387.

Almost all of the contributions were in the form of a refund of money EchoHawk had paid for ads in the gubernatorial campaign that weren’t run. Doak, Shrum and Associates, Arlington, Va., refunded $14,854 to the EchoHawk campaign account in January.