Court records, sworn depositions, and public filings document what he doesn’t post about — before you vote.
He campaigns as “former law enforcement.” Under oath, he admitted he was terminated from Idaho State Probation and Parole for being too “mean” to a fugitive. He then applied to Blackfoot PD. They reviewed his file. He told a sworn deposition they “didn’t like what they saw.”
Read the full record →Under oath in a sworn deposition, Christensen was asked to name women he’d had sexual relationships with while serving as a “family values” legislator. He named two. He estimated there were “probably four or five” others he couldn’t recall by name.
Read the full record →Court records establish that Christensen helped orchestrate a secret recording of a political blogger, then routed it through Idaho Freedom Foundation operatives to cost the man his job. When that was documented, he filed a defamation lawsuit. His own ally called it “a long shot at best.” He lost.
Read the full record →Before his first run for office, Christensen resolved a felony-elevated North Dakota charge and a Bannock County dumping charge through plea agreements. He now campaigns against plea deals for others. He has never disclosed this to voters.
Read the full record →He had a perfect Idaho Freedom Foundation voting score as a legislator. The IFF operative who recruited him to run in 2018 is part of the same network now backing his 2026 return. The attorney who pre-committed to free legal defense for the recording scheme sits on the IFF board.
Read the full record →
— Chad Christensen, under oath, explaining why Blackfoot PD rejected his law enforcement application.
He has campaigned as “former law enforcement” in every race since.
Court proceedings spanning 30 years. Seven Idaho counties. A defamation lawsuit filed and lost. Two criminal pleas before his first run. All of it on the public record.
See the Full Record →The same network that recruited him, funded the recording scheme’s legal defense, and published the smear campaign is active again in 2026.