Blog: Why I Am In This Race

Statement

Louisville is the largest, most important and most complex city in the state of Kentucky. And that's a great thing. Our city's vibrant mix of people and backgrounds has powered her through tough times before, and it will once again. But it will take new leadership to help us get there together.

Ineffective and even dangerous policies implemented by President Obama and rubber-stamped by the Third District's Democratic incumbent, have hurt Louisville these last few years. The incumbent, acts as if it is only via the levers of government -- the same levers of government that gave us stifling regulations, ObamaCare, and a rejection of the job-creating Keystone pipeline -- that we can get out of the mess we're in. We know better than that. History has shown that it's when people move government out of the way that good things get done, not the other way around.

Despite our diverse backgrounds, I find that most of the people around town aren't actually all that far apart on the issues we care about most: creating jobs to help lift people both financially and spiritually; keeping our families and our neighborhoods safe; and returning our public leadership to basic common sense values of personal and fiscal responsibility.

It is with these shared core ideals in mind that I announce that on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, I filed as a candidate for Republican nomination for Kentucky's Third Congressional District.

I disagree with the Democratic Incumbent passionately about the role of Washington, DC, in our lives, and over the next few months I will aggressively make my case for a more limited role for the federal government, and for taking immediate steps to help the people of Louisville and its surrounding communities do what Americans have always done better than anyone else in the world: roll up our sleeves and get back to work.

As a financial advisor and CPA, I know from experience that freedom from over-regulation and aggressive tax reform will unleash small business owners and employers to create new jobs. Think about it: I'm the guy wealthy people like the Incumbent hire to navigate the already overly complicated economic, financial and tax environment. It doesn't have to be this way. We can and will make the kinds of changes that will better serve the middle and working classes while preserving the American Dream for our children and future generations.

I will take my message to voters in schools and parking lots, in coffee shops and diners and churches and anywhere the people of the Third District are willing to meet me. I will visit with folks with whom my message is likely to be well-received, but I'm also not going to shy away from places the Democrats have long since taken for granted.

Power cannot defeat ideas. This is a bedrock belief of the founders of our great country. And this campaign will be about ideas, not personalities. I intend to win that debate of ideas, just as I intend to win in the fall.

Thank you,

Brooks Wicker

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