By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Dr. Mark Steffen won the Republican primary Tuesday night over incumbent Ed Berger in Kansas State Senate District 34.
"I'm just humbled," Steffen said. "We started with God, family and true conservatism and that created this family, this family of support that has spread all over both Reno and Kingman County. I'm humbled, I'm the face of it, but this is a family that we created."
Steffen knows he still has work to do.
"My head's already into the general election," Steffen said. "The need for us to be able to articulate our Republican, conservative ideals and values in a way that people will be drawn to us and that's what I'm going to go to work on first thing in the morning."
Steffen sees his role as that of a servant and one to cast a vision for the state's future.
"It's leadership with the best interests of the others in mind," Steffen said. "It's the equivalent of washing other people's feet. He who wants to be most has to be least. I want to represent the people in a way where we look toward the future and toward a successful future and not be in this cycle of living only for today, particularly financially."
The general election is November 3.