David Hartsuch for US House of Representatives District 1

At one time Iowa’s Congressional District 1 was represented by morality and values. This is when Jim Nussle represented the District in the US House of Representatives. That ended two years ago when Nussle decided to run for Iowa’s governor’s office. At this time he could not run for two offices so he stepped away from a leadership role in District 1. That left a void that needed to be filled; the one thing that no one knew who it would be that filled that void. In November of 2006 Democrat Bruce Braley managed to pull off a narrow victory over his Republican challenger Mike Whalen. We did not know it at the time, but Braley would turn out to be one of the most liberal and partisan politicians in Washington, D.C.

Just a little background information on Rep. Braley’s voting record. Braley has repeatedly voted against funding the troops in both Afghanistan and Iraq. This makes one wonder if Braley really worries about the welfare of US troops, kind of troubling isn’t it. There was also a bill that would reform some of the practices that the IRS uses. One of the issues that was covered by this bill was the notification of victims when the government believes that they have been a victim of identity theft. WHAT??? This guy actually voted against this, I think it would be a great idea to let the victims know that they have been victimized; evidently Braley doesn’t agree with me.
Oh and Iowans are traditionally people that feels abortion is wrong. Braley on the other hand is more than willing to take money from NARAL; the liberal pro-abortion terrorist group. He actually took money from this group to run for office. This is just one of the liberal contributors that Braley has received campaign funds.

Now this year Braley has some serious competition in the form of Republican David Hartsuch. Hartsuch is a current Iowa State Senate member that has four more years remaining in his current term. David is an emergency room physician in Bettendorf, IA where he makes his home. In 2006 Hartsuch challenged the moderate Republican Maggie Tinsman for the Iowa Senate seat in District 41. In this role David has demonstrated that his actions are guided by traditional Iowa Christian values. Recently David has stated that he was reluctant to leave the state Senate because he feels that he has accomplished much good in that position. However, the potential of doing the same good at the federal level combined with the fact that no one else had decided to challenge Braley for the seat convinced him that he should go ahead and run.

David has demonstrated true conservative ideals every time that he considered the bill before him. As such he not only voted for the partial birth abortion ban that came through the Iowa Senate; he cosponsored the bill. This demonstrates a strong dedication to the unborn and to the moral values that drives the majority of Iowans. Another demonstration of David’s strong moral character came through in the debate about homosexual marriages. David is very firmly planted in the reality of the immorality of homosexuality, as such he cosponsored the bill that would have amended the Iowa Constitution to define marriage as being between one man and one woman. This shows the moral clarity that David has in social and political issues. Iowa and the country as a whole needs more people like David Hartsuch.
Recently the legislature in the State of Iowa passed a bill that repeals the local option sales tax with a statewide one cent sales tax (LOST). The problem is that the LOST was a tax that the citizens were able to vote up or down, essentially make the decision on whether they would be willing to pay a higher sales tax to fund public works projects. The new tax, known as SILO, took that ability away from the citizens. David fought hard to prevent this travesty from passing in the Senate. Unfortunately there were enough RINO’s that helped the Democrats push this legislation through.

The State of Iowa and the United States suffers from a loss of morality in our elected officials. I wholeheartedly believe that David Hartsuch will be the Republican candidate for the US House of Representatives that can bring morality back to the US Congress.