David Leavitt

Who he is

David Leavitt represents Idaho House District 25 in the Magic Valley as a Republican. He is one of the Magic Valley Miracle Four — the four Idaho legislators (Christy Zito, Clint Hostetler, Josh Kohl, David Leavitt) who came in or back to the legislature in the 2024 cycle on the same pipeline.

He shares the District 25 House delegation with Sen. Josh Kohl, the paired-vote partner who came in the same cycle on the same out-of-state funding.

(Note: there is more than one notable public figure named David Leavitt in the United States. This page is about the Idaho state representative, not other figures by the same name.)

The Magic Valley Miracle Four

Four legislators. One pipeline. One operating model.

• Christy Zito, Senate D8. Returning to the Senate after a hiatus, with full Pruett-network amplification.
• Clint Hostetler, House D24. First-cycle freshman with a $881 federal tax lien filed in November 2025.
• Josh Kohl, Senate D25. First-cycle Senate freshman.
• David Leavitt, House D25. First-cycle freshman, paired with Kohl in the same district.

All four attended the 2024 Young Americans for Liberty Conference together. All four were backed by Citizens Alliance of Idaho PAC. All four vote with the Idaho Freedom Caucus bloc on contested floor calls. The Pruett Honor Idaho rebrand announcement of February 11, 2026, dateline Rigby, Idaho, named the Magic Valley success as the network’s blueprint for statewide expansion.

Who funds him

Per the Idaho SOS Sunshine campaign-finance database, David Leavitt has zero donors at the $500-or-more level on file for the 2024 D25 House primary. Either his fundraising came entirely from sub-$500 contributions or from outside-PAC independent expenditure spending that does not flow through his candidate committee. The Citizens Alliance / YAL / Make Liberty Win pipeline supports Magic Valley Miracle Four candidates institutionally via PAC-to-PAC and independent-expenditure paths that bypass the candidate-committee disclosure threshold.

The funding pipeline

Citizens Alliance of Idaho PAC backed Leavitt in the 2024 cycle. Per Steve Taggart’s April 7, 2026 Political Potatoes investigation, CAI is 99.72% funded by the national Citizens Alliance PAC out of Fairfax, Virginia. The national PAC is over 72% funded by POM of Pennsylvania, LLC, a company that manufactures gaming machines marketed under a “skill” classification and is currently being sued by the Pennsylvania Attorney General for using that classification to circumvent state gambling laws.

Idaho banned similar machines in 2015.

Young Americans for Liberty, through its Make Liberty Win operation, also supported Leavitt in 2024. YAL took $5,920,023 from Koch-network sources between 2012 and 2019 alone, per Faculty First Responders. YAL’s policy stack, including its Hazlitt Coalition, advocates strict libertarian principles including support for drug legalization. Leavitt’s Idaho campaign trail rhetoric does not match that policy stack. The funding does.

The HB 445 vote against the district

Leavitt voted against HB 445, the 2025 water stewardship legislation that would have codified Magic Valley water agreements and funded aquifer recharge. The Magic Valley economy depends substantially on irrigated agriculture. Aquifer recharge is a core district interest. Leavitt voted against it.

The Times-News editorial board, republished at Political Potatoes on April 19, 2025, named Leavitt among the Magic Valley legislators who voted against the bill.

When a legislator’s primary funder is an out-of-state PAC and the legislator votes against the local economic interest, the question to ask is who they are actually representing. The HB 445 vote answers it.

Paired-vote signature with Kohl

The Senate-D25 / House-D25 pairing of Kohl and Leavitt produces one of the cleanest documented paired-vote signatures in the Idaho legislature. They came in together. They were funded by the same pipeline. They vote together. The pairing, replicated in House D11 (Marmon and Cayler), is the structural feature of district-pair placements that the IFF / Citizens Alliance / YAL / Pruett-network operation runs.

When you see two new legislators in the same district both backed by the same out-of-state PACs, both attending the same national conference together, both voting together against the local economic interest, the pattern is not coincidence. It is the playbook.

Connected pages

• Josh Kohl dossier, the D25 Senate paired-vote partner
• Christy Zito dossier, Magic Valley Miracle Four
• Clinton Hostetler dossier, Magic Valley Miracle Four
• Greg Pruett dossier, propaganda-network operator who named the Magic Valley success as the model
• Idaho Freedom Caucus organization page
• Citizens Alliance organization page
• Cliff Maloney dossier, CAA founder and CEO
• Scott Herndon dossier, Senate IFC chair
• Follow the Money investigation
• Anatomy of a Lie investigation

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