Creighton Knight
Creighton Knight (Republican Party) ran for election to the Idaho House of Representatives to represent District 24B. He lost in the Republican primary on May 17, 2022.
Knight completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2022
See also: Idaho House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Idaho House of Representatives District 24B
Steve Miller won election in the general election for Idaho House of Representatives District 24B on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Steve Miller (R) | 100.0 | 13,290 |
| Total votes: 13,290 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Idaho House of Representatives District 24B
Steve Miller defeated Creighton Knight in the Republican primary for Idaho House of Representatives District 24B on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Steve Miller | 57.3 | 4,366 |
 | Creighton Knight | 42.7 | 3,255 | |
| Total votes: 7,621 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Brian Tanner (R)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Creighton Knight completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Knight's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Tax Reform: I support repealing the grocery tax and reforming property taxes so that Idahoans keep more of their hard earned money and are protected from increasing property tax bills.
- Education Innovation and Reform: I support school choice and expanding charter school options so that parents can choose the best option for their kids. I support Career and Technical training so that our kids can get high paying jobs and not be saddled with student loan debt.
- Protecting Agriculture: I've spent most of my career in Ag related business. We've got to be good stewards of our finances so that there is plenty of money to invest in critical water projects. I support automating irrigation gates, raising our dams, cloud seeding, and canal improvements to preserve the water we do have.
Agriculture is the backbone of our economy and water is the lifeblood of agriculture. Thousands of local jobs are dependent on a steady water supply for agriculture. I support infrastructure improvements like raising our dams to reserve more water; lining irrigation canals and automating water gates which are estimated to save up to 40% of our water.
Fiscal Conservatism: The old saying "show me your checkbook and I'll show you your priorities" applies to how our legislators spend money. Right now Idaho is spending 10x more on welfare than on water improvement projects. This is a misalignment of priorities. I only support spending that aligns with educating our people and preserving our water and the thousands of jobs dependent upon that.
Protect citizen's rights provided by those constitutions.
Corporations and their lobbyists have gone WOKE in the last few years. They are pushing environmental, social governance (ESG) policies, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) policies upon businesses and via legislation. There is a full court press by the Left to force their values on Idaho.
Many of our current legislative leadership is either oblivious to this sea change or simply ignore the dangers such policies present to our agricultural industry and our Idaho way of life. They are too conditioned from the old days when business interests were aligned with conservatism: low taxes, fewer regulations etc. and have missed the political activism the big business interests push now.
Citizens are waking up to this danger to our way of life and are getting more involved in this election cycle. Unlike our very aged representatives, parents are concerned about the woke teachings which are trying to gain footholds in their kids' schools. Farmers, ranchers, dairymen and other Ag professionals are concerned about the excessive compliance costs and the limited access to capital from woke financial companies and their ESG requirements as pre-requisites for financing.
Wisdom gained through life experience and solid core values and integrity are the most important traits of legislators.
As a result I dug into the property tax issue more and have added it to my platform of tax reform.
The current governor and his attorney general ignored that law via specious legal gymnastics and reasoning. I do not support their actions in that matter.
I see the same leadership style at work as a legislator. Staying true to my core conservative values and working through the details with willing legislators to achieve limited government, fiscally conservative, pro-freedom policy objectives is what I will bring to Boise. If after working through the process, the final legislation does not align with conservative principles, then I won't support it.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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