About Shawn
Keough: Experience that counts!
- Serves on the Joint Finance and Appropriations
Committee
- Serves
as a senior member on the Senate Transportation Committee
- Appointed by Gov. Butch Otter to the Transportation Task Force
- Appointed by Public School Supt. Tom Luna to serve on the Advisory Committee of the Idaho Education Network which is a project bringing broadband internet to Idaho's public schools and communities.
- Served as
Co-chairman of the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee
- Served
as Co-chair of the Legislative Interim Committee on Property
Taxes
- Appointed
by Governor Kempthorne to serve on:
-
Served
on Western Legislative Forestry Task Force
- Appointed
to Resource Advisory Committee for Idaho Panhandle
National Forests
-
Recognized
for work on Veterans, Mental Health, Disabilities, Public
Transportation and Agriculture Issues
-
Strong
Track Record of Effective Leadership
Shawn
Keough is the Idaho State
Senator for
Legislative District
One which includes northern
Bonner and Boundary Counties in northern Idaho.
First
elected in 1996, Senator Keough is serving her seventh term.
Senator Keough serves on the Joint Finance and Appropriations
Committee
and is vice-chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Senator
Keough also serves on the Senate Transportation Committee. For six years Senator
Keough served as Co-Chair of the Joint Legislative
Oversight Committee which oversees the Legislature's Office
of Performance Evaluations. During the summer
of 2005, Senator Keough was appointed to serve as Co-Chair
of the Legislative
Interim Committee on Property Taxes.
Senator
Keough's legislative priorities have been and continue to
be education, transportation and issues that help rural Idaho.
As with most of Idaho's "citizen legislators," Shawn works the remainder of the year in the private sector. Currently, Shawn is the executive director for the Associated Logging Contractors, an organization of independent logging contractors with whom she has worked since 2000. Shawn's work experience over the last 25 years is in the fields of business management and public relations.
Shawn's
main focus in life is her marriage to her husband of 22 years,
Michael, and their two children at their home in Kootenai,
Idaho.
How you can help my campaign
I am working hard for
the people of District 1, and would like to continue to do
all I can for my constituents. But, I need your help, and your
vote. Please take a look at my track record to see the issues
I have worked on.
I hope
I can count on your support in 2010!
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