About This Site
My name is Gregory Graf. I run Political Potatoes, an Idaho political accountability publication. I built this site because I lived through what it documents, and because the public record of a public figure should be documented and accessible.
In 2020, Chad Christensen was a sitting Idaho state representative. He helped orchestrate a secretly recorded phone call targeting me. He helped his then boss, EmmaLee Robinson, set up the app to record it. His voice is on the first minute of the recording. He forwarded it to Greg Pruett the morning after it was made. Pruett, who had recruited Christensen to run for office two years earlier, then worked with Idaho Freedom Foundation operative Dustin Hurst to publish a smear series aimed at getting me fired.
The recording was also sent to my employer at Melaleuca. Christensen filed a defamation lawsuit against me in 2021. It was a SLAPP suit, a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, the kind of legal weapon powerful people use not to win in court, but to drain, exhaust, and silence the people they want to shut up. Seventh District Judge Dane Watkins Jr. dismissed it at summary judgment. After the lawsuit failed, people in the same network continued through anonymous accounts that posted my home address alongside homophobic slurs. Hurst and Pruett publicly amplified the mockery and told their followers my court filings were "outright lies."
I know it was a SLAPP because Pruett said so himself. When pressed on Twitter about Christensen's lawsuit, Pruett wrote that Chad's defamation claim was "a long shot at best." The man who recruited Christensen to run for office, received the recording the morning after it was made, and co-published the smear series acknowledged in public that the lawsuit had no real legal footing. That is what a SLAPP is. You do not file it to win. You file it to make someone bleed.
The goal throughout was to silence me. It caused real harm to my family, financially, professionally, and personally. I stood my ground and I won. But I should not have had to fight that battle alone, and nobody else should have to face it at all.
Idaho recognized the problem. In March 2025, Governor Brad Little signed Senate Bill 1001 into law, making Idaho the 36th state to enact anti-SLAPP protections. Effective January 1, 2026, Idahoans targeted with retaliatory lawsuits designed to silence them now have legal tools to fight back and recover their costs. That law exists because too many people had already been through exactly what I went through.
Chad Christensen has a documented history of omitting inconvenient facts from his public record and weaponizing institutions and networks against people who push back. Everything on this site is sourced from court records, sworn depositions, public filings, and reputable journalism. The underlying sources are hyperlinked throughout because I want you to read them yourself.
Conflict Is Not Contention
Most people are taught that conflict and contention are the same thing. They are not.
Telling uncomfortable truths creates conflict. That is unavoidable, and it is necessary. When someone's public record contradicts the identity they are selling, publishing that record causes discomfort. It generates friction and pushback. That friction is not a problem to be managed. It is what happens when documented fact meets cultivated narrative, and it is how truth prevails. Truth does not win by being withheld.
Contention is something else. Contention is intentionally harmful, abusive by nature, and pursued in bad faith. Its purpose is not to establish a fact but to damage a person. The lawsuit was contention. The doxxing was contention. The smear campaign coordinated across an IFF-adjacent network was contention. What this site does is conflict.
I think of this as aggressive civility. Every claim on this site is sourced. Every source is linked. I have been transparent about my identity, my role, and my stake in what happened. That is the civil part. But I am not passive about it, and I am not apologetic about it. I wrote about this distinction more fully in this piece at Political Potatoes. A network that has spent years attacking private citizens, doxxing critics, filing abusive lawsuits, and running controllable candidates does not stop because people look the other way. It stops when enough people look directly at it and refuse to pretend they do not see what they see.
Read the site. Learn the pattern. And if someone tells you that the problem is the person holding up the receipts, ask them what they said when the receipts were being earned.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
If you have had your own experience with Chad Christensen as a constituent, colleague, or community member, you can share it here. Every submission is reviewed before any publication decision is made.
A Note on Independence
This site was created entirely on my own. I did not coordinate with any candidate, campaign, political party, or PAC in building it. No candidate or campaign authorized, directed, reviewed, or funded this work. Every editorial decision on this site is mine alone.
This site is published under my company, Snake River Strategies. I take full responsibility for its content. I stand behind every word on it, and I am proud of the work.
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