Republican Leadership for Tom Harkin, Voters for Christopher Reed

All of you Republicans for Harkin, especially party leadership- listen up. Reed is still out there fighting and working for his campaign! He is not giving up. Christopher Reed believes that he can offer more than your candidate, Tom Harkin!

I shout out: Keep it up Christopher Reed. Real, authentic, conservative, family values Iowans want YOU to be our Senator! Reed will do what’s “good for Iowa”! The voters candidate has spoken out.

http://www.whotv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9207958&nav=menu100_9_7

October 20th, 2008 – “Christopher Reed beat two others in June to win the Republican primary.  Check out his resume. Reed is 36 and lives in Marion.  He’s married with three kids and another on the way.  Reed was a varsity wrestler at Solon High School. He spent five years in the navy.  And these days he runs a telephone answering business.  He told Channel 13′s Dave Price why he thinks you should elect him your next United States Senator.

“I thought it was my civic duty to throw my hat in the ring if I thought I could do a better job.” That’s why Christopher Reed says he’s here.  Many days he’s a one man moving billboard across Iowa, no driver, just Reed and his G.P.S.

Reed says, “It’s a big task but I think it’s worthwhile to do.  I think it’s necessary to do.”

Reed’s own words on his campaign website show the challenge of a man new to politics.  He’s trying to beat Tom Harkin, who’s been in congress almost as long as Reed’s been alive.  And he won’t do it with money.  Reed recently raised about eleven thousand dollars.  Harkin… about eight million!

“When I go to Washington,” says Reed, “and a vote comes before me, I don’t have to call the people who are padding my wallet to find out how they want me to vote.  I’d ask two questions on a bill. Is it good for Iowa?  Is it good for America?  Then, I sign it.”

So without the name identification and the money of his opponent, Reed knows his only chance is to have a better message, a believable message.  He says, “If you’re just yourself, it’ll come through.  I’m not trying to sell anything I’m not.  I don’t believe I’m the greatest person that’s ever lived.  I do believe I offer the state of Iowa a lot more than Tom Harkin can offer them and that is somebody who will put Iowa first when they’re in Washington.”

Reed says his past keeps him from putting himself first.  Five years in the navy taught him humility.  ”One thing the navy taught me,” says Reed, “Was that there’s a duty bigger than myself and there’s an obligation bigger than myself and that’s what I want to take to Washington, a sense of not just leadership, but ownership in what I do, making sure it’s good for Iowa.”