I urge you all the read this interview with Bruce Whalen. He speaks on several issues including energy and oil drilling, the secularization of America's schools, and the difference between him and Representative Herseth.
Here are a couple clips:
Do you support or oppose offshore drilling and opening ANWR to oil drilling? I do support offshore drilling; I do support ANWR drilling. I also support the American-Made Energy & Good Jobs Act that the congressmen in Alaska proposed. My opponent voted against that. I think it’s a great opportunity to add a million barrels of oil a day through that Act and also create a million jobs. We need to decrease our dependency on oil from other countries. The other thing we should do is also recognize that we haven’t had a refinery built in the past 30 years. I think that has a lot to do with oil prices and we need to start building refineries. Finally I think that we need to look toward diversity of our energy and make sure that we help further promote individual businesses and the science for biofuels here with ethanol and soybean fuels, also looking toward the switchgrass and see what we can produce from there. If we can diversify into that area of ethanol that would be great. We also have the opportunity to make sure that we have the transmission lines so we can get to the business of wind farming. Also we need to work with the United States auto manufacturers so we that can move in the direction of diversification. Anything that will keep American dollars from going into the banks of the sheiks of Iran and Iraq, then lets do that and lets start creating jobs here and involve our universities and economists in seeing how we can move that forward.
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What is the most important difference between you and your opponent, Representative Herseth? I believe there a lot of significant difference. First of all I’m a husband, I have a loving wife, and I’m also a father of three children. Another thing that really touches me and that’s probably a large difference between me and my opponent is that she supports abortion. She’s voted to allow a minor child to be transported across the state line to have an abortion from a stranger, and all of this without parental consent. I believe that this damages the family. It’s a mandated secrecy act against the family as far as I’m concerned to withhold information from the parent about their child. We can’t even prescribe aspirin to our children in the classroom or allow them to wear pierced earrings, but they can go out and have a person rummage around this minor child’s uterus with an instrument of death. I don’t appreciate that. Probably another glaring aspect is I believe that taxpayers should be able to spend their money according to their desires. I’m standing firm with tax reform. I’d like to see certain tax cuts remain in place. My opponent voted against the permanent repeal of inheritance tax or the death tax. This year in the political season she has to look more like she’s a Republican than a Democrat. She’s flip-flopping like Kerry, but I don’t intend to do that. I intend to cast my vote. She has name recognition that she’s carried from her political ancestry and I’ve got the common roots name of a person that’s struggled himself out of the poorest area in the United States, was nominated by the Republican Party as its candidate for U.S. House. The Republican Party was the only party to have sent a Native American, and that was Ben Reifel, and now they are sending another Native American to Washington, D.C. this fall. She’s governed by special interest groups; the money that’s contributed to me has in contributed to me has been contributed by individual people.
Read the whole interview from Dakota Voice.
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