Greg Lanting

2 published research records · Latest research 2026-09-16

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About Greg Lanting

The resolution expressly said those lawmakers had voted in conflict with the then-current Republican platform; it named Richard Cheatum, Chenele Dixon, Rod Furniss, Dan Garner, Greg Lanting, Lori McCann, Stephanie Mickelsen, Jack Nelsen, James Petzke and others.

From Defend & Protect and Dairy PAC supported multiple 2026 candidates previously singled out by Idaho GOP for platform-conflict vote (2026-09-16). Recorded status: VERIFIED CANDIDATE-SET OVERLAP: official 2023 Idaho GOP resolution plus 2026 DPI spending and IDI-PAC endorsement records. Reason for later support and any coordinated strategy remain unproved. This sourced excerpt establishes the research context; it is not a completed biography or identity determination.

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Separate December 2025 Idaho political reporting identifies Sunnybrook Strategies as a campaign firm that had worked for multiple Main Street-aligned Republican candidates/elected officials including Greg Lanting, Josh Wheeler, Rod Furniss, Lori McCann and Stephanie Mickelsen.
Sunnybrook Strategies links Veterans for Idaho Voters to a vendor orbit that includes Main Street-aligned Idaho candidates · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: V4IV→Sunnybrook $35,000 is verified from Transparency USA 2024 committee aggregation; candidate-client list is secondary and should be primary-upgraded before publication.

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People

Lori McCann · 2 shared records
Rod Furniss · 2 shared records
Stephanie Mickelsen · 2 shared records
Ben Fuhriman · 1 shared record
Brad Little · 1 shared record
Chenele Dixon · 1 shared record
Dan Garner · 1 shared record
Jack Nelsen · 1 shared record
James Petzke · 1 shared record
Jim Guthrie · 1 shared record
Josh Wheeler · 1 shared record
Lara Herway · 1 shared record
Megan Blanksma · 1 shared record
Richard Cheatum · 1 shared record

PACs

Defend and Protect Idaho

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Connection research · 2026-09-16Defend & Protect and Dairy PAC supported multiple 2026 candidates previously singled out by Idaho GOP for platform-conflict vote

Recorded status: VERIFIED CANDIDATE-SET OVERLAP: official 2023 Idaho GOP resolution plus 2026 DPI spending and IDI-PAC endorsement records. Reason for later support and any coordinated strategy remain unproved.

A retrospective candidate-set comparison finds a non-random-looking overlap that merits issue-by-issue follow-up but does not itself prove common strategy. In June 2023, the Idaho Republican State Central Committee formally passed Resolution 2023-43 issuing a vote of no confidence to Gov. Brad Little and fourteen Republican House members over their votes against overriding Little's veto of HB 314. The resolution expressly said those lawmakers had voted in conflict with the then-current Republican platform; it named Richard Cheatum, Chenele Dixon, Rod Furniss, Dan Garner, Greg Lanting, Lori McCann, Stephanie Mickelsen, Jack Nelsen, James Petzke and others. In the 2026 Republican primary, Defend and Protect Idaho spent independently to support at least four people from that 2023 no-confidence list: Lori McCann, Rick Cheatum, Rod Furniss and Stephanie Mickelsen. Defend and Protect's 2026 largest donor was Way Back PAC at $350,000 according to contemporaneous reporting/FEC-derived data. The 's Spring 2026 endorsement list also endorsed Cheatum, Furniss, McCann and Mickelsen, as well as several other candidates supported by Defend and Protect such as ,  and . This does not establish that the 2023 HB 314 dispute explains the 2026 support decisions, nor that Way Back or IDI-PAC sought candidates because of platform divergence. It does establish that two distinct support networks—one substantially financed by Way Back through Defend and Protect, the other organized around dairy-industry interests—converged in 2026 on several Republican candidates whom the official state party had previously identified by name in a platform-conflict/no-confidence resolution. Next step is to compare each candidate's later record across school choice, immigration/E-Verify, Medicaid, abortion, spending and other issues rather than treating the 2023 resolution as a general ideological verdict.

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