Candidate Leroy banks on early start

In his Idaho Politics Weekly column, Chuck Malloy writes:

We’ve seen this movie before. David Leroy, the onetime golden boy of Idaho’s Republican Party, is running for Congress in Idaho’s First District – 23 years after he was defeated for the same office.

Except for the gray hair and wrinkles that come with age, the 69-year-old basically is the same person I knew when he came within an eyelash of winning the governorship in 1986 — friendly, sharp and self-depreciating with his humor. His political defeats, to Cecil Andrus in the ’86 governor’s race and to Helen Chenoweth in the congressional race eight years later, were humbling. But in my contacts with him over the years, Leroy has never shown bitterness about those losses. More here.