ERIC MYRICKS FOR IDAHO LT. GOVERNOR
Eric Myricks is a proud Idahoan, father, husband, entrepreneur, and brain health advocate devoted to restoring the kind of reasoned, compassionate leadership once embodied by the late Governor Cecil Andrus. Like Andrus, Eric is a moderate Democrat who believes government works best when it listens, includes, and solves problems for everyone, not just the well-connected few. His vision is simple: bring reason, fairness, and people-first government back to Idaho.
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ERIC MYRICKS FOR IDAHO LT. GOVERNOR
Eric Myricks is a proud Idahoan, father, husband, entrepreneur, and brain health advocate devoted to restoring the kind of reasoned, compassionate leadership once embodied by the late Governor Cecil Andrus. Like Andrus, Eric is a moderate Democrat who believes government works best when it listens, includes, and solves problems for everyone, not just the well-connected few. His vision is simple: bring reason, fairness, and people-first government back to Idaho.
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Smarter Budgets, Stronger Futures
Idaho doesn’t need more slogans about tax cuts, it needs a government that actually works for the people paying the taxes. I support keeping taxes low, but you can’t keep cutting your way into oblivion. While the establishment brags about surpluses, families are working harder for less. Our roads are crumbling, our schools are underfunded, and our seniors can’t afford care. Fiscal responsibility must be balanced with fiscal humanity. As Lieutenant Governor, I’ll fight for an Idaho that invests wisely, not just cuts blindly. A surplus means nothing if our people are falling behind.
Protecting Idaho's Healthcare
HB 328 puts Idaho families at risk. It adds work requirements that push people off coverage, shifts care to profit-driven companies, and gives state officials the power to cut benefits overnight. Seniors, caregivers, rural families, and low-income workers could lose care not because they don’t need it, but because politicians made it harder to get. This bill threatens rural hospitals, raises ER costs, and forces families into impossible choices. As Lieutenant Governor, I’ll protect Medicaid, keep our hospitals open, and ensure every Idahoan has access to the care they need to live with dignity.
Public Education Must Thrive
Idaho ranks near the bottom in per-student funding and teacher pay and families feel it every day. Overcrowded classrooms, underpaid teachers, and lost opportunities are holding our kids back. It’s time to fully fund our public schools, repeal the voucher scheme that drains local classrooms, and pay teachers what they’re worth. Education should be Idaho’s strongest economic engine, connecting learning to real jobs through career pathways, trade training, and innovation hubs that keep our kids here, building Idaho’s future.
Idaho Values That Unite - Not Divide
Idaho values go deeper than party labels, they’re about faith, family, freedom, and community. I was raised in the Mennonite church, my wife in the LDS faith, and we’re raising our sons with respect for life, liberty, and one another. I don’t weaponize values to divide neighbors. I believe Idaho values mean taking care of each other; our children, our elders, our veterans, and the land we share.
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Eric Myricks is a community rooted Idaho leader, husband, father, and lifelong advocate for seniors, families, and working people. A graduate of University School in Ohio, Eric began serving others early, becoming a youth pastor in the Mennonite church after high school as part of his mission work. After marrying his wife Lesley, an Idaho Falls native and Executive Director in memory care, Eric made Idaho his home. Today, their family is firmly planted in the Treasure Valley, raising two boys, a toddler and a college student at the College of Idaho.
GET TO KNOW ERIC
Eric Myricks is a community rooted Idaho leader, husband, father, and lifelong advocate for seniors, families, and working people. A graduate of University School in Ohio, Eric began serving others early, becoming a youth pastor in the Mennonite church after high school as part of his mission work. After marrying his wife Lesley, an Idaho Falls native and Executive Director in memory care, Eric made Idaho his home. Today, their family is firmly planted in the Treasure Valley, raising two boys, a toddler and a college student at the College of Idaho.
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The Math Doesn’t Lie: House Bill 389 Is Failing Idaho’s Cities
Idaho is living through a defining moment, one shaped not by ideology, but by arithmetic. Families are arriving. Homes are being built. Roads are filling. Schools, police departments, fire districts, and city halls are being asked to do more, faster, and better. Cities like Nampa, Star, and Middleton are not abstract examples in a policy memo; they are the front lines of Idaho’s growth. And yet, the laws governing how these cities pay for growth are stuck in a world that no longer exists. House Bill 389 was framed as discipline. As protection. As prudence. For many homeowners, it did deliver short-term relief. But public policy cannot be judged by intention alone. It must be judged by consequence. And the consequence of HB 389, as currently structured, is that cities experiencing real,...
Damn right, I’ll fight for your MEDICAID!
I am clear-eyed about the limits of the office I seek. The Lieutenant Governor does not write federal healthcare law. But the Lieutenant Governor presides over the Idaho Senate, breaks ties, shapes agendas, and—most importantly—uses the power of the platform to force truth into the open. And when the truth is uncomfortable, that’s exactly when leadership is required. As Lieutenant Governor, I will fight to protect Medicaid expansion because the consequences of losing it are not abstract—they are immediate, human, and devastating. I will fight because rural Idaho will pay first and pay hardest. I will fight because ideology is cheap, but hospital closures are not. I will fight because voters already decided this issue, and it is not the Legislature’s job to quietly undo the will of the...
Who is Eric Myricks?
To ask who Eric Myricks is, is to understand something about the kind of leadership Idaho needs at this moment in its history. Idaho stands at a crossroads where rapid growth meets the fragile realities of rural communities, where aging families seek support, where young people search for opportunity, and where politics often drift far from the daily lives of the people they are meant to serve. It is also the home of Eric’s wife, Lesley, who was raised in Idaho Falls, grounding their family in the lived experience of this state and deepening Eric’s understanding of its people and its values. In such a moment, Idaho does not need another caretaker of the status quo. It needs a leader shaped by real experience, deep empathy, creative discipline, and a belief in the dignity of every person...
Idaho’s Lieutenant Governor: What the Job Really Is
Most Idahoans have never been told what the Lieutenant Governor actually does. That is not an accident. For years the office has been treated as a political afterthought. But constitutionally and practically, the role matters far more than people realize. The Lieutenant Governor is first in line to become acting Governor, presides over the Idaho Senate, and is often tasked with leading statewide initiatives, negotiating with federal agencies, and coordinating between state departments and local governments. Done well, the office becomes a force for statewide problem solving.Done poorly, it becomes a holding tank for old ideas. And this year, Idaho faces a choice between two very different visions for what this office can be. What the Lieutenant Governor Should Be Doing The...
The Blue Dog Democrat
The phrase “Conservative Democrat” can sound contradictory in the modern political landscape, where our public imagination has grown accustomed to rigid alignments and neatly drawn ideological boundaries. But America, in all its complexity, has never been a nation so easily reduced. And neither are the people who call it home. A Conservative (Blue Dog) Democrat is not a relic of the past or a political curiosity. It is a response to an era that too often discourages nuance and rewards certainty. It represents a longing for grounded politics, politics that honors tradition while embracing progress, that values personal responsibility without abandoning the obligations we owe to one another. To understand what a Conservative Democrat is, one must step outside the fevered pitch of modern...
Carrying the Torch: Reclaiming the Democratic Legacy in Idaho
Idaho stands at a crossroads between what it was and what it could be. Between the courage of its past and the complacency of its present. Between leadership that served people and leadership that serves power. The question before us is not whether Idaho will change, it already has, but whether that change will be shaped by conscience or by dominant control. There was a time when Idaho’s politics were not synonymous with one party, one ideology, one way of thinking. There was a time when leadership meant more than loyalty to the powerful. There was a time when two men, Cecil Andrus and Frank Church embodied the moral center of Idaho. They governed with integrity, empathy, and intellect. They proved that Democratic values were not about partisanship, they were about principle. Cecil...