By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Republican incumbent candidate for House District 104, Paul Waggoner went to Topeka as a limited government advocate and he has held that line.
"The biggest accomplishment is doing what I told the voters I would do," Waggoner said. "A lot of people will speak one way when they're running for election and then when they get up there, they do something exactly the opposite. I have my voting record. It's on our website at waggonerforkansas.org. I'm really very proud of all the votes I took. I really can't think of any of them that I would redo if I had a chance."
Waggoner is most concerned with consistency, not necessarily with agreement within the party.
"Executive, of course is a Democrat, Laura Kelly," Waggoner said. "The legislature is predominately Republican. I think the bigger issue is, do the people who sit next to me in committees or on the floor, I mean, are they doing what they told voters they would. It's one thing to run as a certain type of Republican and vote as another or vice versa, but if that's what the voters of that district wanted, I see no problem with people having their different philosophical positions."
Waggoner sees the process as a positive.
"In committees, you sit Republican, Democrat, Republican, Democrat," Waggoner said. "I sit next to people who are literally my polar opposites politically, but its very easy to get along with them as people. They're very interesting. You talk to people. You try and come to some sort of common opinion, but at the end of the day, you have to take a vote. You either vote yes or no. That's the system and in Topeka, it definitely still works."
Waggoner is running against Democrat Garth Strand in November.