Money and campaign finance
Elaine Price served as treasurer of the KCRCC and the Idaho Freedom Caucus PAC. She signed checks to herself, and the Secretary of State fined both groups.
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The record
- Price signed checks to herself as treasurer.12
- The Secretary of State fined the KCRCC $1,000, citing an "irreconcilable conflict."34
- Price was fined $1,500 personally as treasurer of the Idaho Freedom Caucus PAC. The PAC was fined $1,000.2
- She authorized $11,000 in KCRCC payments to Idaho Dynamics, Reilly's company.2
- She denied wrongdoing, saying she did not know what the checks were for.2
- A September 2024 letter to Regan said $4,043.50 in KCRCC expenditures for its treasurer, Elaine Price, could not be independent expenditures.4
- In 2022 Regan wrote that when the Secretary of State discovered the North Idaho Republicans' "lie," they "were fined the maximum allowed under the law."5
- A Coeur d'Alene Press guest column said the fine left no trace on the KCRCC's reports.1
Who
- Elaine PriceKCRCC treasurer and state representative.
- Brent ReganChaired the KCRCC during the violations.
Sources
- Setting the record straight on North Idaho RepublicansCoeur d'Alene Press · November 2025 (archive)
- Elaine Price: the full recordRigged Red Card
- Brent Regan - KCRCC Chair, IFF Board Chair, IDGOP Rules Committee ChairIdaho Extremism · April 2026 (archive)
- Idaho Secretary of State letter to KCRCC Chairman Brent Regan, September 11, 2024 (PDF)Idaho Secretary of State · September 2024
- COMMENTARY: Elephant MetamorphosisCoeur d'Alene Press, by Brent Regan · August 2022 (archive)
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