The bedrock of America is the American Family.

In 2026, we celebrate 250 years as the United States of America, and all of our prosperity and success has been a result of the success of our families. Families are the center of an ordered society. We need very little from the state if our families are intact, orderly, successful and prosperous.

Will America’s and Idaho’s next 250 years be better than the last 250 years? The answer depends on the success of our families.

Nurture is found at home. Provision is found at home. Responsibility is learned at home. Hardworking and ordinary fathers and mothers are the backbone of liberty and an orderly society.

Families can do more for themselves and their communities than the government ever could.

The state of Idaho should do all it can to encourage and promote the independence of its families – families that are not dependent on the government for their maintenance.

Get out of the way of ambitious, hardworking, successful families, and Idaho will thrive.

Scott Herndon is running for the Idaho Senate to carry the conservative foundation of North Idaho all the way to Boise. At the forefront, Scott wants to ensure that government remains limited, and serves the people of Idaho, not itself.  Scott will craft policy that fights DC and Boise encroachment on the lives of Idaho’s families.

Scott values individual liberty, which he describes as the right to self-government. Scott will fight for your your right to govern yourself, your own families, your churches and your businesses.

Scott Herndon will keep Idaho’s government out of your way so that you can succeed on your own effort and merit.

Here are Scott’s Top Policy Priorities:

1. END ALL PROPERTY TAXES.

While other candidates talk about how government needs your income, sales and property taxes, Scott Herndon knows from his time on the Finance committee in the Idaho senate that property taxes can be absolutely abolished so that you can finally enjoy your own home and property without the threat of government seizing it one day because you failed to pay your local tax. It is possible to eliminate all property taxes in Idaho without raising any other taxes. 

2. PROTECT INDIVIDUAL FREEDOMS, REDUCE GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS. 

There is more work to do protecting the 2nd amendment in Idaho and reducing the number of laws and codes that control every area of our lives. Scott also wants to pass his constitutional amendment respecting your right to educate your own children free from government regulation.

3. STOP GROWING THE NATIONAL DEBT AND CONTROL INFLATION.

The state of Idaho spends more money than it should, much of it is provided by the $37 trillion, and growing, national debt. This debt leads to massive inflation and unaffordability of everything – housing, gas, food. Just look at the prices of homes and rent in North Idaho! We must reduce this nation’s debt, control state government’s spending and practice a conservative monetary policy so that the value of a dollar is not continually decimated by inflation.

4. MAKE IDAHO HEALTHY AGAIN.

6 in 10 Americans suffer from chronic disease. Scott Herndon supports healthy air and water and will fight to protect medical freedom and health education for all Idahoans.

5. MAKE IDAHO SMART AGAIN.

Scott will support policies that make Idaho’s public schools better (they still only have math and reading proficiencies in the 30 percentile range) while also fighting to support education freedom and choice.

Scott Herndon doesn’t just have goals. He has a proven record of success in the Idaho senate fighting for Idahoans.

1. REDUCED PROPERTY TAXES.

On your property tax bill this year, you will see credits for House Bills 292 and 521. Scott Herndon supported those bills that delivered hundreds of millions in property tax relief. In fact, the governor vetoed H292, but Scott helped encourage the override of the governor’s veto. Scott will not stop until 100% of property taxation is eliminated in Idaho.

2. SUPPORTED TAX CUTS.

Scott co-sponsored and supported bills that reduced income taxes by tens of millions a year and specialty tobacco and other unfair taxes. These tax cuts encouraged more investment in Idaho and resulted in outstanding business growth.

3. HELPED CHANGE THE WAY IDAHO SPENDS YOUR TAX MONEY.

Scott Herndon helped pass major reforms to how Idaho builds its state budget. Before the changes, the legislature only reviewed less than 20% of spending each year, while approving 100% of the budget. Now, the legislature reviews a much larger portion of the spending, and Scott Herndon helped cut wasteful government spending, saving $200 million in 2024 alone. DOGE!

4. PROTECTED THE 2ND AMENDMENT.

Anti-2A activists found a way to restrict guns from public property through private leases. Scott Herndon sponsored and passed senate bill 1374 to take away their ability to ban guns from public property. It passed, but there is still more work to do to protect your right to protect your families.

5. STOPPED THE TRANSGENDER NONSENSE.

Scott Herndon co-sponsored a new law for schools to keep boys and girls in their own locker rooms and bathrooms. It passed. He also sponsored and passed a bill that stopped requiring public works contractors to accommodate men in women’s locker rooms at large companies. That was a result of bad Obama and Biden era policies, but Idaho is now free from the nonsense.

6. PROTECTED CHILDREN FROM OBSCENITY AT PUBLIC LIBRARIES AD ONLINE.

In modern America, pornography is widely available to children at our government-run public libraries. Scott Herndon helped put in place a law in Idaho that can be used to stop that. Also, online porn is through the roof, and it is widely available to kids. Scott Herndon helped write a bill that passed and has caused online pornographers, like Pornhub, to verify the ages of users. these porn suppliers can now only distribute pornography to those over 18.

Scott Herndon was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1967. His family lineage in America dates to 1673, when William Herndon came from Kent, England to the Virginia Colony and settled in New Kent County, Virginia. Scott’s parents, also born in Richmond, migrated west through several states before Scott was five, finally settling in California. Scott attended Missouri Military Academy for high school and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Arizona State University in 1989.

Scott met his wife Arlene in 1995 in San Francisco. Arlene’s dad was an Oakland, California police officer who was killed in the line of duty in 1981.

As a self-taught home builder with a previous career in finance and computer programming, Scott Herndon built his own home in Idaho in 2005, acquiring skills which he developed into a full-time career as owner and operator of Scott Herndon Homes. In short order, it became a great success and has provided great work opportunities for several Bonner county families.  A true family-values conservative, Scott’s sons have helped him with the family business.

As a Christian, a husband, and a father of eight, Scott believes in preserving and protecting children and traditional American values. He has a successful record of protecting families and individual rights in the Idaho senate.

Scott served his community for 5 years as a Bonner County jail chaplain and for many years as chairman of the Bonner County Republican Party.

Scott was first elected to the Idaho Senate for District 1 in November, 2022. Scott has sponsored dozens of bills in the senate, and many of his proposals have received either unanimous, bi-partisan support or unanimous Republican support and were signed into law. Senator Herndon was a founding member of the Idaho Freedom Caucus. He was also the top rated conservative legislator in the 2023 Idaho legislative session based on the ratings of bills by the Idaho Freedom Foundation.

Married for 28 years to Arlene, Scott  has resided near Sandpoint for 22 years. In his spare time, Scott enjoys the beautiful outdoors of the Gem State, boating on Lake Pend Oreille, and building a new workshop on his property. His five daughters all still live on the family farm, milking the family’s two milk cows and raising chickens and pigs. They are also talented musicians who perform locally at the Sandpoint Farmer’s Market, the Bonner County Fair, and with the Bonners Ferry Communnity Orchestra. They also publish their music online.