Connection research · Research date 2026-09-15
Bruce Newcomb bridges Open Primaries and Take Back Idaho
Recorded status: Verified personnel and campaign-formation bridge. No finding of organizational control or Reclaim/Take Back financial coordination.
This is a dated research record. Its qualifications and open questions are part of the account. Association alone does not establish wrongdoing or control.
Bruce Newcomb is listed on Take Back Idaho's board. Idahoans for Open Primaries' own site lists him as campaign treasurer. In a November 2024 guest column, Newcomb wrote that Proposition 1 began at a dinner conversation involving him, his wife, and Zeke and AnnMarie Johnson, after which they connected with grassroots leaders and launched Idahoans for Open Primaries in May 2023. Luke Mayville separately described Newcomb as one of the founders of the campaign. This creates a verified personnel/formation bridge between Take Back Idaho and the Proposition 1 coalition. It does not by itself establish that Take Back Idaho funded, controlled, or coordinated with Reclaim Idaho.
Source references
- Take Back Idaho — Meet the Take Back Idaho PAC Board of Directors
- Idahoans for Open Primaries — Website footer
- Proposition 1: A common-sense solution born at a kitchen table — Bruce Newcomb guest column, Nov. 1, 2024
- Idaho Elections: How Prop 1 might change our voting system — Luke Mayville interview