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Veteran to run for 1st Congressional Distrct

Idaho Press-Tribune - 2/22/2018

Recently retired Lt. Col. Alex Gallegos of Nampa announced Tuesday that he will run as a Republican for Idaho’s 1st Congressional District seat.

“I feel compelled to run,” Gallegos stated, “because the dysfunction in Washington, D.C., is a threat to our children and grandchildren’s future, and because of the alarming breakdown of discipline in the bureaucracy among the various federal agencies, in our society at large, and especially in the halls of Congress.”

This is Gallegos’ first run for public office. If elected, he said he’ll serve no more than five terms, equal to 10 years, in the U.S. House.

“When politics becomes a long-term profession, long-term thinking goes out the window and they wind up kicking the can down the road on all the important issues,” Gallegos stated.

Gallegos served in the Army for 26 years and holds two master’s degrees, one in human resource management and another in national security and strategic studies.

The national debt is one of his top issues, Gallegos said, calling it “an existential threat to our country. ... Congress needs to take responsibility and have an actual budget like normal people do rather than these continuing resolutions.”

Military readiness, he said, ranks a close second on his priority list.

The Republican primary for Idaho’s 1st Congressional District is May 15. U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador is not running for re-election for the seat, opting instead to run for governor.

With Gallegos, other Republican candidates for the district are: Russ Fulcher, David Leroy, Luke Malek, Christy Perry and Michael Snyder. Three democrats are running for the seat: James Vandermaas, Michael William Smith and Donald Roy Miller.

Alex Gallegos, an Army veteran from Nampa, is running for Idaho's1st Congressional District as a Republican.

Courtesy of the Alex Gallegos campaign

Alex Gallegos, an Army veteran from Nampa, is running for Idaho's1st Congressional District as a Republican.

Courtesy of the Alex Gallegos campaign

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