‘Need New Faces In The Capitol’

Wed., May 6, 1998

Jay Patrick Newcomb

COVER LETTER

I am a blue-collar worker, a grain truck driver and candidate for the Legislature. I am not a rich attorney or a real estate developer.

Nonetheless, I keep up with the issues and want to have a role in North Idaho affairs.

We need new faces in the Capitol. I want to be one. It is time for a working commoner to have a chance to hold office.

I am a moral and economic conservative and stand against the extreme environmentalism that threatens our timber and mine workers. Radicals from outside our culture threaten our grass farmers’ right to burn. I stand with you, the grass farmer: No Washington state radicalism in Idaho.

I believe in the right to keep and bear arms and in states’ rights. On this I shall not compromise! The federal government has too much power over states - all federal land in Idaho should be owned by Idaho.

I’m a nonsmoker and am against the radical anti-smoking hysteria that is the current fad. Let’s save our children and women from real threats, like rapists and molesters. I want to pass a law that those convicted of such crimes face the death sentence with limited appeals.

I am 33 years old with a wife and two children. I attend the Vineyard Christian Fellowship and am involved in the Royal Rangers, a Christian Boy Scout organization.

Give me a chance. Instead of another attorney, vote for me. Long live Idaho and America!

RESUME OF JAY NEWCOMB (GOP)

Education: Bethel Christian School, Carlsbad, N.M. Class of 1982 (High school diploma). College courses and trade school courses, Boise State University.

Employment: U.S. Army, cavalry scout, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, 1982-89. Northwest Agricultural Cooperative Association, Boise, truck driver. Red Label Freight Co., Spokane and Post Falls, dock work and truck driver. Arlo Huber & Son Inc., Spokane, truck driver, 1995 to present.

Community involvement highlights: Involvement in the Royal Rangers, a Christian scouting organization. Active in the Vineyard Christian Center, Coeur d’Alene. Precinct committeeman, Precinct 14, Kootenai County Republican Central Committee.

Personal: Age 33, married; 9-year-old stepson; 5-year-old stepdaughter. Has lived in Coeur d’Alene for three years.

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