1st District Democratic Challenger Paul Taylor promised the Sheridan Express Sunday at Parnell Duck Days that he would be an independent voice for the district. He is challenging Incumbent Allen Andrews, who has filed for reelection. They will face off in November. He said that Andrews was too partisan in his votes and that he would do what was best for the district.
However, if anyone is bracing for a mudslinging contest, they will be disappointed. Taylor promised to conduct a civil campaign. “I like Allen,” he said. “He has been a gentleman, and that’s rare to find in politics these days. I am running because I decided I didn’t think Missouri was going in the right direction.”
Taylor said that he would like to get big money out of politics. He practices what he preaches, saying that he refuses any political donations. He said that he had gotten several, but had returned all of them. “I’m better off meeting people face to face at events like this,” he said. He has been running a low-key campaign, going from town to town to find out what people want.
He said that he would like to see more quality jobs for the district, more focus on keeping the jobs we’ve got, and helping out small employers and farmers. He has background in both farming and manufacturing. He grew up on a farm east of Hopkins, and went to Northwest Missouri State, where he got a degree in Chemistry. He was a manufacturing supervisor and is married to Carla.
They have two children, Cora and Rachel. They currently live two miles east of Quitman. The problems of people on the Missouri-Iowa border, in which Missouri people are being assigned Iowa addresses, are familiar to Taylor. He said he lives in the middle of nowhere and has had his address changed four times since moving there.
“I’ve been farming all my life,” he said. “We take farmers for granted too much. Farming is the bedrock we stand on. We’ve got to do whatever is possible to make compliance easier for small businesses and farms.”
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