Shawn Keough

Fri., Oct. 27, 2000

Resume

Republican … age 40 … lives in Kootenai … elected to state Senate in 1996 … reared in Ohio … moved to Idaho in 1979 … attended North Idaho College and Lewis Clark State College … Associated Logging Contractors executive director … former Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce timber information specialist … married with two children.

Why running “Like it or not, it’s a Republican Legislature and the Senate runs on seniority. All the issues important to us, better schools, better roads, sales tax … I made progress on those issues because of my seniority in the Senate. If we want to continue the betterment, we need to continue that seniority.”

Issues

Economic development … protecting Idaho’s natural resource job base … U.S. Highway 95 repairs … funding public school buildings … fighting federal roadless initiative.

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