Editing Cassia County, Idaho (section)

==Government==
===Elected Officials===
Similar to other Idaho counties, an elected three-member [[county commission]] heads the county government. Other elected officials include [[County clerk|clerk]], treasurer, [[sheriff]], [[Assessor (property)|assessor]], [[coroner]], and [[Prosecutor#United States|prosecutor]].

'''County Commission'''
* District 1: Leonard Beck (chair)
* District 2: Robert Kunau 
* District 3: Kent Searle 
'''Other Elected Officials''' 
* Clerk: Joseph Larsen
* Treasurer: Laura Greener
* Sheriff: George Warrell
* Assessor: Martin Adams
* Coroner: Craig Rinehart
* Prosecuting Attorney: McCord Larsen

Cassia County is in [[Idaho's 2nd congressional district]] and represented by Congressman [[Mike Simpson]]. At the state level, Cassia County is in [[Idaho Legislative District 27|Legislative District 27]], represented by Senator [[Kelly Anthon]] of Declo, [[Douglas Pickett]] of Oakley and [[Clay Handy]] of Burley.

===Politics===
At every level, Cassia County is a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] stronghold. All county-level offices are held by Republicans and have been for decades. Republican primaries are tantamount to election to office, as Democrats rarely field challenges for county or state legislative office. Cassia County is one of the most consistently Republican counties in the state, and in the [[Idaho gubernatorial election, 2010|gubernatorial election of 2010]] Republican [[Butch Otter]] carried Cassia County with 76.54% to [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Keith G. Allred|Keith Allred's]] 16.73%.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sos.idaho.gov/elect/RESULTS/2010/General/cnty_Gov.htm |title=2010 General Results Governor and Lt Governor |access-date=August 5, 2011|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712084743/http://www.sos.idaho.gov/elect/RESULTS/2010/General/cnty_Gov.htm |archive-date=July 12, 2011}}</ref> In the [[2012 United States presidential election|presidential election of 2012]], [[Mitt Romney]], whose father lived for a few years in his youth in Oakley, carried Cassia County with 85.2% while [[Barack Obama]] received 13.1%.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sos.idaho.gov/elect/RESULTS/2008/General/cnty_pres.htm |title=2008 General Results US President |access-date=July 24, 2011|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712084718/http://www.sos.idaho.gov/elect/RESULTS/2008/General/cnty_pres.htm |archive-date=July 12, 2011}}</ref> The last Democratic presidential candidate to carry Cassia County was [[Franklin Roosevelt]] in the [[election of 1940]] edging out [[Wendell Willkie]] by around 100 votes.

State legislators from Cassia County traditionally hold their seats for long periods of time. Two of the longest serving legislators in Idaho history were from Cassia County: Vard Chatburn of Albion who served in the House of Representatives from 1957 to 1986 and [[Denton Darrington]] in the Senate who served from 1982 to 2012. Because legislators rarely lose their seats, legislators representing Cassia County are often in leadership or chair committees. From 2012 to 2023, Representative [[Scott Bedke]] served as Speaker of the House. Bruce Newcomb of Burley also served as Speaker from 1998 to 2006.

Though born in Burley, Congressman Simpson now lives in [[Idaho Falls]]. The only other member of congress with ties to the county is [[Henry Dworshak]] who represented Idaho's 2nd congressional district and later served in the [[United States Senate|Senate]]. He lived in Burley and was the publisher of the ''Burley Bulletin''. A Burley elementary school is named after him.

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