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Corder to run for state senate
Tim Corder, Sr., has announced his candidacy for the state senate from District 22 on the Republican ticket.
He will face Democrat Jim Alexander in the November election.
Corder is no stranger to public office. He currently is serving his second term as a Mountain Home Highway District Commissioner.
He has lived in Mountain Home and reared his family on the family farm, TLC farms, since 1971. He recently sold that operation to concentrate on his trucking business.
He and his wife have three children who live and work in Idaho.
"My family have been Idaho residents since 1932," he noted.
Besides being a highway district commissioner, he also is currentlychairman of the Faith Lutheran Church and School school board, a member of Leadership Idaho Agriculture and Ag in the Classroom, and has served on the Elmore County Grain Growers Association Board and on the Board of Directors of Northwest Farm Credit Bank.
He served in the Army with the 82nd Airborne Division and 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam.
"There are many issues that have great impact on all of us now and may have even more impact on our children's future," he said in explaining his reasons for running.
"I would like to briefly highlight my position on a few of them:
"As our Pledge of Allegiance states, this nation was formed under God. The framers of our Constitution never considered anything else, nor do I. That said, I would always support those laws that defend our God-given and constitutionally provisioned way of life.
"Therefore, I am opposed to abortion in any form. The sanctity of life must never be our choice.
"I support the establishment of monuments to declare openly the very doctrines upon which our country was founded.
"I support the right for citizens to keep and bear arms and the implied obligation to use them wisely and extreme penalties for those who use them to violate the laws.
"I define marriage as the union between a man and a woman and would support laws that make that definition clear and any deviant definition unlawful.
"I will defend the peoples' decisions regarding term limits for state offices and the elimination of the 1% sales tax as promised.
"I believe our children need the best education money can buy but I also believe that money must be spent responsibly, less to top heavy bureaucracy, more in the classroom.
"I believe water and land use issues have and will continue to define Idaho. Much of our state has serious and complex water quantity issues. I would support the current laws which seek to solve the problems and work to enact other laws that protect our natural resource industries, protect and encourage other industries and provide for planned growth throughout the economy.
"Finally, I will defend your right to disagree. I will not insist that you pray in public places yet I will insist upon my right to do so.
"I will not insist that you may not believe in or advance evolutionary theory, yet I insist upon the right to believe in and advance creationism.
"I will not insist you ratify the Ten Commandments, yet I will insist you allow me to hold them dear.
"I will not insist you live, believe and worship as I do but I will insist that you defend my right to live, believe and worship as I choose.
"It is difficult to define oneself so briefly. I would be happy to speak to anyone or group about my views and yours. I would very much appreciate your support in the primary and, God willing, in the general election."