The Argus Leader today has three stories on the three Republican candidates running for Senator Tim Johnson's U.S. Senate seat, one for each.
The article on stealth-candidate Charles Gonyo of Trent includes this:
According to his Web site, Gonyo's main concern is the "illegal immigration crisis that our country faces."
Gonyo would vote against any amnesty for illegal immigrants. He also would bar federal money to businesses "involved in the practice of aiding or abetting foreign illegal aliens."
He thinks English should be designated as the official language of the United States, and he thinks no federal money should be used to support foreign languages. He does think that schools can teach foreign languages "as individual courses within a school's curriculum."
A second article on Spearfish's Sam Kephart says this:
Kephart, 57, endorses a number of positions embraced by Republicans. He supports a strong military and the Second Amendment. But he thinks the political system is dysfunctional. That dysfunction threatens to leave the next generation with a staggering debt.
"The point is, they're going to inherit the bill - the Visa bill - and all the interest that our dysfunctional government is leaving them," he said.
Case in point is the recent passage of the farm bill. Kephart has no problem with providing disaster relief and a safety net to farmers, but he argues the bill contains too much pork.
To control pork spending, Kephart wants the House and Senate to establish earmark committees, which would review and rank projects.
The article on the South Dakota state representative Joel Dykstra of Canton has this to say:
Dykstra says the U.S. must increase domestic oil production, and he supports opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and offshore areas to drilling.
He faults U.S. policy makers over the past several decades for hobbling the domestic refining and production industries.
"What this really boils down to is 30 years of inaction - 30 years of cheap oil and not providing for this day," he said.
Go and read them all for a quick summary on each of the candidates.
1 comments:
Speechless. That's my reaction to Dykstra complaining that oil has been too cheap for 30 years.
Disbelief. That's my reaction to Dykstra blaming the government for the fact that oil companies chose not to reinvest their huge profits in building refineries in the US for 30 years.
Dykstra doesn't advertise that he spent decades working in the oil industry. But obviously he still sides with oil companies over consumers and taxpayers.
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