State Politics

Idaho House leader, lawmaker marry — and there’s precedent for this

Rep. Janet Trujillo, left, and House Majority Leader Mike Moyle.
Rep. Janet Trujillo, left, and House Majority Leader Mike Moyle.

House Majority Leader Mike Moyle, of Star, has married Rep. Janet Trujillo, of Idaho Falls.

The Idaho Press-Tribune reports that the lawmakers, both Republicans, filed for a marriage license last week in Gem County.

Moyle says the two had been dating for a while and recently decided to elope.

Trujillo and Moyle will still live in their separate legislative districts and have no immediate plans to move.

Nothing in Idaho law or legislative rules prohibits lawmakers from being married to each other.

The newlyweds are currently the only married legislative couple in the Idaho Statehouse, but it’s not the first time this has happened. In 1990, former House Speaker Bruce Newcomb married Rep. Celia Gould while the two were both serving as lawmakers.

This story was originally published December 23, 2016 at 3:43 PM with the headline "Idaho House leader, lawmaker marry — and there’s precedent for this."

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