The district is comprised of 22 counties covering 13,000 square miles from South Dakota to Wisconsin and from Iowa to the edge of the Twin Cities' suburbs. For 2006, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the district's population to be 610,000 people.
2008 Congressional Race
Brian Davis is our endorsed Republican candidate for Congress. He's working full time to replace our first-term Congressman Tim Walz. Please visit Brian's web site for his good news.
Did you know that Tim Walz has voted with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi way over 90% of the time? Look out your window. Does that look like San Francisco to you? If we send Brian Davis to Washington, he will represent southern Minnesota. Hmmm. "Southern Minnesota" almost sounds like an oxymoron, no?
Polling has shown that 3/4 of Americans think we should increase domestic drilling for oil. Brian Davis agrees. Walz does not. Are non-petroleum fuels and energy conservation good things? Absolutely! But energy is the backbone of progress, the need for it will not just go away. Petroleum fuels, non-petroleum fuels, and conservation are all parts of an energy policy, not conflicting alternatives. The United States have been producing and consuming energy more cleanly than most of the world for a long time. We can discover and produce non-petroleum fuels. We can and should conserve where we can. Reducing dependence on foreign energy supplies is a good idea on top of all that. And nuclear power should be part of our non-petroleum fuels. It's already discovered (!) and its dangers have been exaggerated for a long time. Brian Davis should know: he has a degree in Nuclear Engineering.
Walz thinks that the government should tell us what health care we can and can't have and where and when. Brian Davis is for reforms that allow the marketplace to work for all health care products and services as it has for things like LASIK eye surgery: better and less expensive over time. Brian Davis should know: he's a physician. Read about some of what's wrong with Walz's health care ideas.
Our nation's Founders made something unique in the history of the world. They gave us a model of governance that allowed the United States to grow from nothing to a world power in 150 short years. Our shores have long been the hope and dream of people from every corner of the world. This did not happen by chance. It happened because of a system of government that considered history, governance, and human nature. It happened because of the kind of people who came to be a part of our grand experiment and who helped push it forward. Big government of the type favored by Walz is the opposite of the Founders ideal. To change it is to cripple it; to make the United States more like those countries from where so many came to us! That is not progress.
Brian Davis believes that 300 million Americans free to make decisions for and with their families, friends, and neighbors will outsmart any number of bureaucrats, every time. In the process, they will end up better off than by being told what they can and cannot do, buy, own, learn, or make. That is what free markets are about. In the final analysis, that is what Tim Walz fights against. It's bad government. Vote for the Founders' government. Vote for Brian Davis.