Elect Tom Shaw!

Nov. 2 is fast approaching and Tom Shaw, Republican candidate for House District 8, has been leading a fast paced life to meet the citizens in his district.

For example this is a status facebook update on a recent day:

Spent a wonderful day with my dad on a windshield tour of the north half of District 8. Met and talked with great folks in Havelock, Pocahontas, Rolfe, Bradgate, Ottosen, Bode, Livermore, Lu Verne, Wesley, Algona and Humboldt!

And, Mr. Shaw has been in the news. In a Des Moines Register article House District 8 was listed as one of 23 “hot races to watch”. According to the article Shaw has “the upper hand” in one of four vulnerable democratic seats.

In checking out Shaw’s website I found comments written by his supporters. I especially liked this one:

I support Tom Shaw because:  He has no fear as he speaks out for what he believes in, makes no exceptions when he is challenged, stays standing strong when his opponent bashes him, doesn’t have a millionaire’s pocket and still has been able to carry on his campaign debt free, and most of all, like most of the common people in the heartland, loves his country and the state of Iowa. He is a man that has a plan and knows the action it will take to bring back fiscal responsibility to this state.

This comment says so much about the kind of man voters of House District 8 have the opportunity to elect to serve them. “A man with a plan” and how Iowa needs Tom Shaw to stand up for all of us.

Tom Shaw pledges to defend the right to life, the right to keep and bear arms, and Iowa’s “English Only” law. He will promote laws which prohibit illegal aliens from employment and state benefits and Iowa’s “Right to Work” law. Shaw promises to defend Iowans from excessive, unjustified and punitive taxation, to defend traditional marriage and to defend the authority of local school boards and the right of parents to home school their children.

It is no wonder that Tom Shaw has received so many important endorsements:

Endorsed by the National Rifle Association (PVF)
Endorsed by Iowa Guns Owners (PAC)
Endorsed by Gov Mike Huckabee/HUCKPAC
Endorsed by National Federation of Independent Business/SAFE
Named “Friend of Iowa Business”

Good luck, Tom Shaw! Iowa Defense Alliance has long supported your efforts to have a successful campaign. We are honored to know you as a great American who will “defend” us in so many very important ways!

EDITOR’S UPDATE

It seems that Tom Shaw’s Democrat opponent, Susan Bangert, is feeling the heat of defeat as she just launched off a negative mailer about Tom’s service to our country and defending our freedoms.

Here is what Tom posted in an email:

While I try to stay positive about this campaign, I am disappointed to learn that my opponent has put in a mailer that I am not qualified/could not look out for small business as she could. Why? Because she characterized my lifelong service in the protection of others, in the U.S. Navy and as a peace officer, as “Tom has worked for federal and local government for his entire working career.” Even though I am a disabled veteran and a veteran of Operation Desert Shield, upon my retirement from the Navy I chose to return and serve the citizens of my hometown as a peace officer.