Who’s running for Eagle mayor and council? Our voter guide highlights the candidates

This story was updated Thursday, Nov. 30, to include a 2009 bankruptcy filing by Eagle Mayor Jason Pierce.

Eagle voters will select from nine candidates running for mayor and City Council in the upcoming election.

Four people are running for Eagle mayor, including incumbent Jason Pierce. His challengers are former Mayor Stan Ridgeway, Councilman Brad Pike, and landlord Marc Degl’Innocenti, a retired Marine.

Ridgeway and Degl’Innocenti were critical of Pierce, calling for a need for new leadership with greater public transparency.

Pike and Degl’Innocenti cited the need for additional police officers in their priorities if elected.

Five candidates are running for City Council, and voters will select two of them to serve in two at-large seats. The five are: Mary May, Christina Patterson, Robert Imhoff, Craig Kvamme and Christopher Hadden.

Avimor and city growth are top of mind for all of the candidates.

The winners will serve four-year terms.

The Idaho Statesman sent surveys to each of the candidates, and their responses are copied below, unedited. Pierce told the Statesman in an email that he would not have a chance to respond to the questions before the deadline, which was 10 days after the Statesman asked candidates to participate.

Pierce and his wife filed for bankruptcy in 2009 when they owed over $500,000 in credit card and loan debt. Pierce told the Idaho Statesman by phone on Thursday, Nov. 30, that they filed after his business partner failed in 2007 to operate their company properly and was not collecting payments properly from their customers.

Learn more about this race and other local elections at IdahoStatesman.com/Election.

This story was originally published October 19, 2023 at 4:00 AM.

Rachel Spacek

Idaho Statesman

Rachel Spacek is a former reporter covering Meridian, Eagle, Star and Canyon city and county governments for the Idaho Statesman.