By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Bob Hamilton is running for the United States Senate as a Republican, and he was in Hutchinson Thursday morning. He knows the people in the Big First district know some of his opponents a lot better than they know him.
"I started a business in 1983 in the Kansas City area," Hamilton said. "It was just my wife and I and we've grown that business to over 160 people in the Kansas City area with high-paying jobs and health care for all of my employees."
Hamilton is not a career politician and he considers that an advantage in helping President Trump.
"I don't think politics is rocket science," Hamilton said. "I think anybody can figure it out, well maybe not everybody, because we're sending professional politicians that can't figure anything out up to Washington. We need an outsider that knows how to get things done, that knows how to fix things. That's been my whole career is fixing things. That's what we need."
Hamilton admits he doesn't have the agriculture background that the retiring Pat Roberts has.
"I don't understand all the idiosyncrasies of ag, but I own quite a bit of farm ground myself," Hamilton said. "I work with four different farmers that farm my ground. I'm close to the ag people. I would love to get on the ag committee when I'm up in Washington, because, you know, farmers, I want to make sure we have their back. We need to support our farmers and our family farms and to revive our family farms."
Learn more about Hamilton's campaign in the Republican primary at bobhamiltonforkansas.com.