Senate Candidate Dykstra Supports Palin, Rejects Senator Johnson Criticism

This just in from the mailbag:

Sioux Falls - Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Joel Dykstra took exception with Tim Johnson’s recent criticism of Sarah Palin as a “weak choice” for Republican Vice Presidential nominee.

“Almost everyone who came up to me during the State Fair this past weekend was very excited about the nomination of Sarah Palin,” Dykstra said. “She has energized many South Dakota voters because of her principles and her proven track record of reform. During her speech at the Republican National Convention last evening, she further solidified her fitness to serve as the Vice President of the United States of America.”

Dykstra said he sees Governor Palin as an example of the kind of real change that he has been calling for during his campaign. “She has actually taken on the entrenched interests in her state of Alaska and accomplished real reform of the old guard system,” he said. “We need that kind of resolve in Washington to get the federal government doing a better job for the people of this country.”

“I’ve been saying all year that if we really want to change Washington, we have to send different people. Clearly John McCain agrees with that philosophy,” Dykstra said. “Barrack Obama’s call for change is just lip service. His actions in choosing as his Vice President, a life-long Washington insider who first came to the Senate when Sarah Palin was 9 years-old, proves that he is committed to the status quo.

Dykstra promotes a series of reforms and solutions to many of the key issues facing America. He advocates a comprehensive approach to solving the energy crisis through more domestic drilling immediately, more renewables and construction of clean coal and modern, safe nuclear power plants. “My energy policy positions are exactly the kind of solutions that Governor Palin outlined in her speech last night,” said Dykstra.

Dykstra also calls for a private sector solution to health care reform instead of a big government, nationalized system. He has proposed more transparency and openness in allocating federal funding to local projects to eliminate the growing corruption of the earmark process.

Notes:

1. Excerpt on Energy from the speech by Governor Sarah Palin at the Republican National Convention on Sept. 2, 2008: “Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America’s energy problems - as if we all didn’t know that already. But the fact that drilling won’t solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all. Starting in January, in a McCain-Palin administration, we’re going to lay more pipelines…build more nuclear plants…create jobs with clean coal…and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal, and other alternative sources. We need American energy resources, brought to you by American ingenuity, and produced by American workers.”

2. Headline to article in the Rapid City Journal on Aug. 3, 2008: “Gov. Palin a ‘weak choice’ by McCain, Sen. Johnson says”.