Geoff Schroeder

Environment / Energy With growth comes increasing demand for water, which is critically scarce in some areas of District 8, reflected in declining aquifers. Balancing the needs of growing cities with the needs of agriculture and other beneficial uses requires skilled and careful monitoring and intervention where appropriate under the vast body of Idaho water law. I fully support aquifer recharge efforts. Environment / Energy I believe in balancing people’s rights to use the land productively without overreaching federal mandates. I support the state’s efforts to assume management roles that are given to it by the federal government. Idaho needs to fulfill its managerial role in an effective and responsible manner, and we must ensure that we have we have allocated the resources to allow Idaho to continue to have primacy in environmental matters. Education Our valuable and essential education system in Idaho is under attack, and it is the duty of the legislature to protect it from efforts to divert its constitutionally mandated resources elsewhere. Government Reform One major issue facing Idaho is the increasing push to adopt sweeping statewide legislation to address nonexistent, hypothetical, or purely local problems, problems best resolved at the local level by the parties with the most knowledge of the issue. Government Reform Creating new laws when there already exist laws to address problems, or creating laws to solve nonexistent problems is making government larger, not smaller. Our state government needs to take a step back and allow those governments closest to the people to do their jobs without needless new roadblocks.