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Welcome. This is the official campaign blog for the election of David Allan Pundt as he works toward becoming the next Minnesota State Representative from House District 12A. The district includes the cities of Baxter, Brainerd, Crosby, Ironton, Riverton and some of the most beautiful rural areas in the state of Minnesota. Ah, let's throw in Wisconson, North and South Dakota, Michigan, Ohio, upstate New York, and lots of other places. It's a beautiful world and I am blessed to be fortunate enough to live here.
Until a short while ago, I was the news director for KLKS in Breezy Point, a beautiful little town about 20 minutes north of Baxter where I live now. About five years ago, I started thinking about running for political office. Every journalist has an opinion and I kept mine to myself as much as possible and presented news and information as balanced as I could. But eventually, it became too frustrating to have an idea of where I wanted the nation and my state to go and see it go the other way. I believe in conservative family values, low taxes and constitutionally-limited government, the elements at the foundation of what made this country the best place to live on the planet, past or present. Ronald Reagan said once that the government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have. Those of us who pay taxes shell out roughly 43% of what we produce to be governed, by local, state and national bodies. At the beginning of the 20th century, that number was closer to 7%. It's been an expensive tap-dancing experiment in socialism-lite and the sooner we give up on failed notions of how to run a country, the better.
Join me on this merry adventure into getting involved first-hand. Politics has been a spectator sport for me since I was in college, mostly because I was a responsible journalist that parked his opinion at the door when he went to work. I left that work behind for the time being to see what I could do myself, to stop complaining about the government part-time, to throw myself into the fray and discover if I could do any better. No matter what happens, it's going to be an interesting journey. Later. David