Dixon steps down from 1B House seat

SANDPOINT — Sage Dixon has stepped down from the Idaho House of Representatives early to accept a role as regional director for the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.

Dixon, who served in the District 1B seat, began his role with the department Sept. 3, two days after he resigned his post in a letter to Gov. Brad Little.

"I have always regarded any elected position as carrying with it a high responsibility to the public, and especially the role of legislator," Dixon wrote in the Aug. 14 letter to Little. 

In its Sept. 7 meeting, the Republican Legislative Committee for District 1 nominated Cornel Rasor as its top pick to fill the remainder of Dixon's term. Also nominated were Jane Sauter, who had an unsuccessful bid for the Republican nomination for the House of Representatives 1A seat; and Victoria Zeischegg, a longtime Bonner County Republican Women, Inc. member and leader.

Rasor was the Bonner County Republican Central Committee’s endorsed candidate in the May Republican primary election. He defeated fellow Republican Chuck Lowman in a close race to win the primary election and will face Democrat Kathryn Larson in the general election Nov. 5.