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Republican, husband to Arlene, father of 8, small business owner. Candidate Idaho State Senate District 1. https://herndonforidaho.com/social-media-policy/

11/04/2026

Last night you returned me to the Idaho Senate, and you sent Jane Sauter and Cornel Rasor back to the Idaho House alongside me. I couldn’t ask for two better people to serve this district with.

Thank you, District 1.

It was a hard night for Republicans across the country. The party lost ground almost everywhere. But North Idaho held, and Idaho held. We kept District 1 in strong conservative hands, and together we defeated Proposition 1.

That one mattered. Out of state billionaires spent millions to write a California style abortion law into Idaho’s constitution, with no parental consent and no limits. Idahoans saw it for what it was and said no. The protections for our children stand.

To everyone who showed up and voted, thank you. I don’t take it for granted, and I’m ready to get back to work for you.

11/03/2026

Poured concrete this morning, voted this afternoon. Best birthday I could ask for.

Just cast my ballot here in Sagle, NO on Proposition 1, and the full Republican ticket, top to bottom. My son Jon is with me in this photo.

If you haven’t voted yet, there’s still time. Polls are open until 8 PM tonight at your regular polling place. Grab your keys, bring someone with you, and go. This one comes down to who shows up, so show up.

Thank you, District 1. Let’s finish this.

Scott

11/03/2026

Tuesday is Election Day. It’s also my 59th birthday, which feels like a fitting way to mark the number: spending it fighting for the place my family calls home.

I didn’t get into this to hold a title. I got into it because a family ought to be able to own their home outright instead of renting it from the government forever. Because the children being knit together in Idaho right now deserve to be born. Because your right to defend your family and raise your kids by your own values belongs to you, not to the state. That’s what I’ve fought for, and it’s what I’ll keep fighting for.

Tuesday decides whether that fight goes forward, and here’s the hard truth about an off year like this one: it comes down to who actually shows up. The other side is counting on good people to assume it’s already handled and stay home. Don’t give them that.

Polls are open 8 AM to 8 PM on Tuesday, November 3rd, at your regular polling place. Vote NO on Proposition 1. Vote the full Republican ticket, top to bottom. And bring someone with you, your spouse, your neighbor, your grown kids. One more vote is one more.

I’ll be voting Tuesday afternoon myself, right after I pour concrete in the morning, because some things you make time for no matter what the day holds. Whatever you’ve got going on, make the time too.

If you’re looking to get me a birthday present, there’s only one I’m asking for: go vote. Let’s finish this together. November 3rd.

Scott

11/02/2026

Your sixteen-year-old daughter could have an abortion without you ever being told, and without your permission ever being asked.

That is what Proposition 1 does. It removes the parental consent Idaho has always required. It reaches all nine months. One doctor decides, and he cannot be charged or disciplined for it. About 1,500 Idaho babies a year are alive right now because of the protections it would tear down.

Here is what the other side is counting on: that you will assume it is already decided and stay home. The group behind Prop 1 just wired $720,500 to the Idaho Democratic Party in ten days. You do not spend that kind of money unless you are afraid of the people who show up.

So show up.

Early voting is over. It all comes down to Tuesday, November 3rd. Polls are open 8 AM to 8 PM. There is no president on the ballot this time, but there is something more important on it: 1,500 children.

Make your plan. Bring someone with you. Vote NO on Proposition 1, and vote the full Republican ticket, top to bottom.

1,500 children need your NO on Prop 1 vote THIS TUESDAY.

10/30/2026

A grown man was found in the women’s locker room at the Sandpoint YMCA. Before this year, there was no clean law to charge him under.

Now there is. Cornel Rasor and I wrote it.

House Bill 752 is Idaho’s bathroom and locker room privacy law, and the idea is simple: our wives, our daughters, and our granddaughters should be able to change in a locker room without a biological man present. That should never have been controversial.

HB752 is now law. It took effect July 1. The ACLU ran to federal court to stop it, and most of the law is standing. Locker rooms, changing rooms, and showers are fully protected, and the heart of the law is in force.

This week I sat down with Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador, pictured, who is in court defending the rest. I believe we will win, and Idaho women and girls will keep their private spaces.

A real problem in our own community, a clear law to solve it, and a state willing to defend it. That is what the job looks like when it works.

Early, in person voting is open now through the end of the day Friday, October 30th. Election Day is Tuesday, November 3rd.

10/29/2026

“No Weapons Allowed.”

That sign is at a free, family-friendly concert in a public park in Coeur d’Alene. No ticket, no admission charge. Just a snow fence, a couple of signs, and a “Facility Reserved” placard, and suddenly the ground you own is a gun-free zone and your right to carry disappears.

This has been an eight year fight for me, and it is personal. It started in 2019, when a private group leasing public ground in Sandpoint banned fi****ms and told law-abiding people they had to surrender their right to carry just to set foot on land the taxpayers own. I challenged it. In 2023 the Idaho Supreme Court ruled against me in Herndon v. Sandpoint, holding that a private group using public ground could bar guns. I did not let that be the end of it.

In 2024 I authored Senate Bill 1374 and we made it law, restoring your right to carry on public property that is normally and habitually open to the public. Real headway. But the fix was not finished. To get the bill through, the Senate insisted on a vague “restricted access” loophole, and that loophole is exactly what you are looking at here: a light fence and a sign used to turn a free public concert into a gun-free zone on ground the taxpayers own.

In 2025, while I was out of the Senate, I suggested the bill to strike that loophole, and Representative Dale Hawkins carried it. It passed the Idaho House, then was blocked in a Senate committee without a vote. A good bill, stopped at the gate.

Here is my commitment. Send me back, and in the 2027 session I will carry that fix again and finish what I started in 2019. Eight years in, we have made real headway. Your right to defend yourself and your family should not vanish at the edge of an orange snow fence on public ground that belongs to all of us.

Early voting is open now. Election Day is Tuesday, November 3rd.

10/29/2026

Around here, access to the water is not a luxury. It is who we are.

A few years ago, a developer was handed a public road at Camp Bay in Sagle and shut the gate on access to Lake Pend Oreille that our families had used for generations. We did not let that stand. I wrote Senate Bill 1258 and floor-sponsored it myself. The idea is simple: before any county can give away a public right-of-way to our lakes and rivers, it has to provide equal replacement access first. No more quiet giveaways of the water access we all share.

It passed the Idaho Senate 33 to 2. Then it went to the House, where a lobbyist stopped it in committee and it never got a vote. A good bill, killed in a back room.

That fight is not over, and the stakes are only rising. This past summer the Forest Service closed day use at Green Bay, telling families who have always swum and kayaked there that they now need a camping permit just to set foot on the beach. And when access is already this thin, we feel every loss. Even a routine closure, like the boat ramp repair at Hawkins Point this spring, leaves people with nowhere nearby to put in. Every year there is a little less water we can actually reach, on Pend Oreille, on Priest Lake, on our rivers.

So here is my promise. Send me back to the Senate and I will file this bill again on the first day, aimed squarely at protecting water access, the rivers and lakes that make North Idaho home. I passed it through the Senate once. With your vote, I will finish the job.

Early voting is open now. Election Day is Tuesday, November 3rd. Let’s keep our water public.

Scott

10/28/2026

This is me and my daughter Naomi, about twenty-one years ago.

She was born in our home in Sandpoint, and she turns 21 in late November. I turn 59 on Election Day, November 3rd. So this year her birthday and mine fall in the same stretch of calendar as the most important vote of my life, and I keep thinking about that.

Arlene and I have been married almost thirty years and raised eight children, most of the way right here in north Idaho. I did not come to Idaho to run for office. I came to raise a family in a place that still believed in hard work, faith, and leaving people alone to live their lives. We got a milk cow. We homeschooled. We built this life with our own hands, and I would not trade a day of it.

People ask why I fight so hard on the things I do. This is why. Everything I carry to Boise, I carry for them, so my kids and yours inherit an Idaho that is still Idaho: where a family can afford to own their home, where your rights are your own, and where every child is treated as the gift this one was to us.

That is not politics for me. It is the eight people who call me Dad.

Early voting is open now through this Friday, October 30th, and Election Day is Tuesday, November 3rd. I cannot think of a better way to spend my birthday than earning the chance to keep standing up for this place we love. Thank you for being part of it.

Scott

10/27/2026

1,500 babies.

That is about how many were aborted every year in Idaho under Roe. After Roe was overturned, Idaho changed its law, and those lives started being saved. Prop 1 brings it all back, and it goes further. One doctor decides where the line is, and he cannot be charged or disciplined for it. No limit. No accountability.

Here is something worth knowing before you vote. In just the last ten days, the group behind Prop 1, Idahoans United for Women and Families, wrote three checks to the Idaho Democratic Party: $245,500 on October 16th, $375,000 on October 20th, and $100,000 on October 26th. That is $720,500 in ten days. It is all right there on the state’s Sunshine disclosure portal for anyone to look up.

That is who is pushing Prop 1, and that is how badly they want it. They are spending that kind of money because they are counting on you to assume it is already decided and stay home.

Do not give them that. Vote NO on Prop 1.

Early voting is open right now through this Friday, October 30th, at your county elections office, no appointment needed. Or vote on Election Day, Tuesday, November 3rd, 8 AM to 8 PM. 1,500 children depend on it.

10/26/2026

Some of our neighbors are choosing between medication, heat, and the property tax bill. Two meals a day instead of three.

I heard this from seniors on fixed incomes while I was speaking in Pocatello, and it is just as true right here at home in Bonner and Boundary. It is not the billionaires who fret about property taxes. It is the widow on Social Security watching her bill climb while her income stays flat.

This is why I will not stop fighting to eliminate the property tax. No Idahoan should have to choose between eating and keeping their home.

Early voting is open now. Vote Republican, top to bottom. Election Day is November 3rd.

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