PAC to bring bus tour to Nevada

Nevada Daily Mail

With the presidency, seats in federal and state legislatures, and top state and local offices up for election in just a few days, groups and candidates are ramping up last-minute, get-out-the-vote events throughout Missouri.

On Friday, the Faith, Family, Freedom Fund, self-described as a "Super PAC associated with Family Research Council Action, is bringing is statewide bus tour through Nevada. The "Repeal and Replace McCaskill" tour is slated to stop at Republican headquarters, 127 E. Austin Blvd., at 9 a.m.

A press releases said the event will feature several people "at the forefront of the conservative movement who have come to Missouri to help educate voters" on what they call McCaskill's "anti-family sentiments."

Those attending will have the opportunity to hear from some of these leaders.

The event is open to the public. For more information on the bus tour, visit www.NoMcCaskill.org.

Meanwhile, both Democrats and Republicans are touring the state as well, and some have made a point of making a stop in Nevada.

On Tuesday, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster stopped by the White Grill in Nevada to rally fellow Democrats and make his case for retaining that office.

Recently, Republican U.S. Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler stopped by the Daily Mail offices, on the campaign trail. Just finishing her first term in the U.S. Congress, the lifelong farmer, small business owner (she and husband Lowell own Hartzler Equipment Company, with a location in Nevada) and teacher, Hartzler said it's important to reign in spending at the federal level. Hartzler said she's a proponent of Heartland values, and has been privileged to serve in the House agriculture and armed services committees.

Congress needs to focus on creating jobs and growing the economy, she said, "It's doable."

Several House bills have been passed relating to repeal of the health care bill and to decrease corporate taxation to make doing business in the United States more appealing, but "the Senate hasn't voted on hardly any of these bills," and she thinks the leadership in the Senate needs to change.

"They haven't passed a budget in three years. The system is broken," Hartzler said.

But in terms of the Congressional race, she believes she's the best candidate for rural Missourians because "I'm one of them, and I'm a fighter for them."

Hartzler said she shares and respects the local people's "common sense ideas," and believes in listening to the people.

"The experts are the people of the district. I take their ideas to D.C. and fight for them," Hartzler said.