Leroy was a real rising star in Idaho back in the ‘70s and ‘80s, he handily won the Attorney General office in 1978 when he was only 31 and then switched to Lt Governor in 1982 (presuming that would be an easier route to Governor). He lost by only 1% to Cecil Andrus in the open 1986 Guv race (had he won, he’d likely have gone on to be Senator in 1990 instead of Larry Craig or in 1992 instead of Dirk Kempthorne).
Nothing wrong with comebacks, but he’ll be 71 at the start of the 2019 Congress (turns 72 in Aug 2019) and I presume he’d want to serve just three terms. What are his goals in office ? Is he an anti-Trumper ? I looked up past Almanacs of American Politics to see any mention of his stances, but didn’t see anything listed in particular. Barone did note that when he ran for his first attempt at a comeback in 1994 for the House that he was the presumed frontrunner, but Helen Chenoweth managed to outwork him (interestingly, Chenoweth had been Leroy’s campaign manager for Governor in 1986).
She was his campaign manager? Wow that’s cold. I plum forgot she died BTW.
Found this, his campaign statement.