Former Missouri State House Representative Jeff Roorda joined the Marc Cox Morning Show to announce his run for a Missouri State Senate seat this week.
"It just seems like a good opportunity to serve my community in a different way that could be very meaningful," says Roorda of his campaign to replace State Sen Paul Wieland who cannot run for re-election because of state term limits.
The longtime Democrat who served as a State Rep between 2005 and 2010 and again from 2013-2015 recently switched parties, and will run as a Republican.
"Eight years in the house, a strong social-conservative vote, you know I was very pro-life, very pro-gun, very anti-tax in my eight years in the house. I voted with the Republican speaker more than any Democrat that I served with," says Roorda. "Now the new wedge-issues of the day, de-funding the police, critical race theory, it should be crystal clear to anybody who's paying attention where I am on issues like those. While these career politicians are flapping their jaws about these issues, I've actually been out there doing stuff."
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