Republican Chuck Ahner Announces Challenge to Kansas 3rd District Democrat Incumbent Dennis Moore

Ahner for Congress Campaign | 12-06-05

[TigerTale]

Republican Chuck Ahner Announces Challenge to Kansas 3rd District Democrat Incumbent Dennis Moore

Overland Park resident Chuck Ahner, distinguished West Point graduate and MBA recipient from Boston Univerity, announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for U. S. House of Representatives from the Kansas 3rd District at a kick-off luncheon last Thursday. Speaking to a standing-room-only audience, Ahner said, “It is about leadership. It is about solutions. It is about a mission. I look around me and see a need for clear, concise leadership—Republican leadership in Congress for our community.”

Ahner rolled out key issues and solid solutions that will be the cornerstone of his campaign, along with his record of leadership, business experience and passion for serving his community:

• Economic Growth – enactment of pro-growth policies by the federal government, providing sound fiscal leadership to eliminate deficits through disciplined spending and common sense tax reform, while enacting free and fair trade policies that protect American workers.
• Defense and Security – maintaining the best national defense as a deterrent abroad, and a sensible approach to preventive measures here at home and on our borders.
• Affordable Healthcare – making healthcare more efficient and affordable to increase coverage availability to millions of Americans, including medical tort reform and digital records.
• Rock-solid Education – focusing on educational policy that provides accountability at the local level and offers the greatest amount of opportunity for each child.
• Progressive Energy Policy – continuing a balanced national energy policy that preserves our quality of life through energy independence while properly reducing risks to our environment.

  Ahner cited his years of business and military experience as vital qualifications for filling the leadership void in Congress. “As senior vice president of a local company, Midland Loan Services, the largest employer in Corporate Woods, I have created jobs here in Kansas. I understand how the business climate and regulation can assist or hinder growth,” he said. Ahner’s business career also includes experience in the petroleum and chemical production field.

  Ahner said, “We are concerned about terrorism, crime and securing our borders. I am no stranger to the threats from the outside. Americans do not cut and run.” Ahner’s military tour included service in an intelligence unit monitoring the East-West border in Germany during the Cold War, and commanding National Guard troops.

  Addressing healthcare, Ahner said, “Healthcare inflation continues unabated and this expense is a hidden tax on the U.S. economy.” He explained, “ My multi-point healthcare plan focuses on increased coverage availability to all Kansans by using technology to reduce the cost of, and the mistakes in, providing healthcare; giving incentives to small employers to band together to offer healthcare plans to employees; and enacting medical tort reform.” Ahner and wife Jennifer are parents of four children who attend school in the Blue Valley district in Johnson County. Ahner is treasurer of the Greater Kansas City West Point Society, member of the Overland Park Rotary, a Kansas 3rd Congressional District Republican Delegate, legislative representative at Harmony elementary school, head coach for a youth sports team, and is active in church youth programs. For more information, visit www.ahnerforcongress.com...

[Deut28]

I think there have been several that seek to update the Civil Rights statutes that allow judges to award attorney's fees in certain cases.

H.R. 2679 is one such example, but I think there are others.

[TigerTale]

H.R. 2679 is one such example, but I think there are others.

Thanks. I plan to check out the details.