At tonight’s Seventh District Congressional Candidates Forum, sponsored by the League of Women Voters and Missouri State University’s Center for Community Engagement, Jim Evans demonstrated his clear command of the critical issues confronting Ozarkers.
Jim’s commitment to seeking common ground solutions that serve the common good was evident throughout the evening. On contentious topics like education, national security, health care, poverty and inequality, the economy and environment, Jim offered views consistent with his Ozarks values, the values of rewarding work, creation stewardship and frugality.As always, Jim’s principles reflect his background as an Ozarks native who grew up on a dairy farm, created and sustained a successful cow/calf operation, served in the United States Army during the Vietnam era and taught mathematics in local public schools for nearly thirty years.
During his responses, Jim offered a combination of personal experience and policy analysis which compellingly framed each issue in often unorthodox perspective. In doing so, Jim again revealed himself as someone who is not beholden to special interests and their agendas nor as a strict partisan within the boundaries of contemporary political tribalism.
Jim championed the retention and improvement of public schools and the local control of them by locally elected officials pursuing public benefit against the privatization of education and control transferring to corporate boards interested only in the pursuit of profit.
Additionally, he called for strengthening Social Security and Medicare by protecting them from Wall Street and private insurance predators. Jim focused on shared prosperity, balanced trade, and directly combating poverty in order to limit inequality.
Kevin Craig forthrightly articulated his views and made the case to dedicated conservatives and libertarians that his candidacy represents an authentic conservative alternative to Billy Long.
By their participation, both candidates exhibited a willingness to engage in open public discussion of these issues, as opposed to Rep. Billy Long’s refusal to attend.
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