Jordan is hot on the campaign trail for the Congressional seat about to be vacated by Oxley in the 4th Congressional District. Always active but not in the local news cycle until now, Jordan visited a manufacturing facility in Delphos.
DELPHOS While engaged in a race for the U.S. House of Representatives, one state politician stopped in Delphos to tour a local manufacturing facility.
Lakeview Farms played host to Ohio Senator Jim Jordan (R-Urbana) Friday. The candidate to replace Congressman Michael Oxley appreciates touring businesses in the state.
?This is another great employer we have in west-central Ohio. One of the things I like to do is to go see manufacturing; go see our businesses around the district. It?s always good; you get a great education on all the neat things that happen and it reinforces what I know to be true. If you keep taxes low and regulation at a minimum level, you allow entrepreneurs and business owners to prosper and grow their businesses,? he said.
In the primary one of the disappointing things was a lack of public positioning on national issues. This is now disappearing and the Delphos Herald noted some of the national issues Jordan comment on and it was good to read. Solid, strong and conservative they are solid on national security, the fight against terrorism and even had some strong suggestions on how the State of Ohio can benefit both Ohio and the nation. Something the current Governor and Blackwell would do well to pick up on. Not just for political position but for the benefit of all citizens of Ohio.
The Patriot Act we passed in the U.S. gives our intelligence services the resources to thwart these attacks. Great Britain passed similar legislation and its what allows Scotland Yard to stop these terrible things, it looks like, the terrorists were planning to do, he said.
Jordan also expressed continued support for the war.
Its a scary world; its a dangerous world. I wish there were a better way but the key is for us to remain on the offense. These bad guys; these evil people, arent going to go away. We cant hide from them; weve got to take the fight to them. Our president understands this and a lot of the American people still know it. After the events of the other day, I think more and more Americans realize we have to take the fight to the bad guys, he said.
Jordan says one of the things the state government can do is equip emergency personnel.
We need to be as smart and as vigilant as we can to make sure our first-responders and emergency personnel have the resources and training they need in case there is something bad that happens in our state, Jordan said.
Jordan also points to illegal immigration as a matter of state and national security.
One of the other things were doing is looking at the issue of illegal immigration and make sure we are doing all we can, as a state, to help our security. One of the ways to do that is to make sure the people who are here are here legally, he said.
Jordan says immigration and security are primarily federal issues but there is another measure the state can take. He says the governors of California and Massachusetts recently called National Guard troops to aid the security efforts at their respective states airports. Ohio could choose a similar course of action, according to Jordan.
I dont know that Ohio is going to go that way yet. I don’t know if our governor has decided, yet, he said.
Jordan is by far the superior candidate and Ohio will benefit from this fine conservative family man to enter the US Congress.
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For what it’s worth, re-read the third paragraph of the second block-quote, where Jordan discusses the war on terror. This is still the wording from his standard stump speech in the primary. He was already addressing at least some of these issues in the primary.
I don’t doubt that I missed it during the primary. Just observing that it never seemed to make much splash. Just glad his already formed views are becoming a bit more visible. Though more prominent newspapers would be nice. Delphos Herald isn’t a Toledo Blade or Lima News.
Other than cutting taxes does Jordan have any economic platform?
Considering Ohio’s economic crash I would like to know.
(Slogans are not a platform.)
That’s a pretty hefty platform. But with the principle of limited government the more he can help keep government from squashing economic development… the better.