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Idaho State Senator District 33

Idaho Senate members serve a 2-year term and are responsible for translating the public will into public policy for the state, levying taxes, appropriating public funds, and overseeing the administration of state agencies. These responsibilities are carried out through the legislative process — laws passed by elected representatives of the people, legislators.

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    Dave Lent
    (Rep)

Biographical Information

1. What do you hope to accomplish if elected?

2. What experience has prepared you for this office?

3. What do you see as the most significant challenges Idaho faces that you might be able to address in this position?

4. Would you support legislation to remove criminal liability for physicians and pregnant women experiencing life threatening pregnancy complications and allow for medical and family decisions regarding continuation of that pregnancy. Please explain your response.

5. What else would you like to tell the voters?

Campaign Phone 2085210716
Facebook page Lent4Idaho
1) Continue to build and evolve Idaho's education systems to be recognized as world-class. 2) Continue to govern Idaho resources in a manner that creates efficient and effective programs resulting in reduced tax burdens for our residents. 3) Continue efforts to provide safe environments for our residents, from roads and bridges to schools. 4) Continue to find ways to help our communities provide adequate educational facilities. 5) Perhaps most importantly, protect Idaho's ways and values that cause us to love this great state.
40 years in the Nuclear Industry 12 years as a school board trustee Retired Director of Training at one of the INL contractors Idaho native that has lived and worked in 7 other states.
Ensuring our educational systems provide Idaho students with the marketable knowledge and skills our employers are asking for.

Ensuring that sacred tax dollars are expended for the best benefit of Idaho residents.

Not allowing out of state special interests determine the future of our state.
I believe we should be more considerate of the mother's health and be less intrusive in the Doctor / Patient / Family relationship.
Please get out and vote in the primary election on May 21.

Senate Education Committee - Chairman and Joint Finance Appropriations Committee - Member