Hartzler wins re-election comfortably

Friday, November 7, 2014
Rep. Vicky Hartzler speaks to the Nevada Rotary Club about the fourth congressional district which she represents on Oct. 30. Ralph Pokorny/Daily Mail

Nevada Daily Mail

Vicky Hartzler easily won re-election to Congress over her two challengers, Democrat Nate Irvin and Libertarian Herschel Young.

Hartzler, a Republican, won the fourth district, which is comprised of 24 counties in the central and west central portion of the state, with 68 percent of the vote, totaling 119,995 in unofficial returns, with all 368 precincts reporting.

Irvin polled 46,438 to earn 26.34 percent.

She won all of the 4th Congressional District counties, including the Democratic stronghold of Boone County, mirroring a nationwide trend that saw the Republicans add to their majority in the House and regain control of the Senate.

"It is an honor to serve the wonderful people of the 4th District and I am grateful for the continued trust they have given me to represent them. I'm looking forward to continuing to fight for their common sense ideas to get America back on the right track."

Hartzler had this to say in regards to national election results in which Republicans took the majority in the United States Senate, "Tonight the American people have called for a new direction for America. Contrary to some economic data that shows things getting better, many Americans are being left behind.

"Families are having their health insurance cancelled and electricity bills are skyrocketing due to the president's extreme agenda.

"Many people have just quit looking for a job which has given us our smallest workforce since 1978. Our foreign policy is in disarray and our enemies seem to be growing stronger abroad. We can do better.

"I look forward to working with the new leadership of the Senate to get us moving in the right direction."

Vicky is a life-long farmer, small business owner, and public servant. Vicky and her husband, Lowell Hartzler, own a company with three farm equipment stores in the 4th District. It was her small business acumen that led Gov. Matt Blunt, in 2005, to appoint her chair of the Missouri Women's Council. During her three-year term, she implemented new and effective programs to help women achieve their economic goals, according to a statement from her campaign office.

She was first elected to public office in November of 1994 as the State Representative from Missouri's 124th District and served three terms in the Missouri legislature.

Prior to her time in public service, she taught family and consumer sciences for 11 years in the Lebanon and Belton school districts.

She is a life-long Cass County resident, where today she lives with Lowell and their daughter, Tiffany, on a working farm.

She is a graduate of both the University of Missouri in 1983 and Central Missouri State University (now University of Central Missouri) in 1992, graduating summa cum laude with a B.S. in Education from MU and a M.S. in Education from UCM.

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