Vote for leaders who serve our best interests

Change is needed, but not the change being forced on the American people by the current administration, Congress and the courts.

The progressives argue that conservatives impose their views on other people. But who is suing the government to remove crosses from cemeteries? Who is filing lawsuits to remove “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance? Who sued to make the Boy Scouts accept homosexual leaders, even though that violates the organization's founding principles? Who is trying to tell doctors, nurses and pharmacists that they have to participate in medical procedures that violate their religious conscience? Who's banning Bibles from schools? Who's telling you that you must buy health insurance?

We need to elect people who take seriously our nation's founding creed: “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” True rights come not from government, but from God Himself.

We need people in government who won't take our money and give it to people who can't afford unsecured car loans and home mortgages, who won't spend more than the taxes we already pay, who won't impose regulations that bypass Congress and strangle small business owners.

Vote for people with sound character traits: honesty, reverence, thrift, sincerity, hard work and personal responsibility.

Gary Fischer

Iowa City