Candidate in Focus: Adrian Smith

Let's see if we can't get ya'll familiar with some GOP candidates that don't make it on CNN.

State Senator Adrian Smith from Gering, Nebraska recently beat out John Hanson and Jay Vavricek in the GOP primary for Nebraska's third congressional district seat. The district is safe Republican, so it's pretty much guaranteed that Smith will take over for Rep. Tom Osborne. According to the Columbus Telegram, Adrian says he "would represent Nebraska with a conservative set of principles by voting to reduce the tax burden, making sure agriculture-related issues get the attention they deserve, controlling illegal immigration and protecting constitutional rights."

Adrian hates the death tax, ardently defends gun-owner rights, supports a "moderate" form of the flat tax, and opposes amnesty.

He's been a champion of low taxes for 7 years in the NE Unicameral.

Here's a great quote from Adrian: "These Founders...also knew our elected officials and those who staff our government offices not to be angels either. So, while necessary, government must be strictly limited...[M]ore and more government is not the answer to our problems. In fact, more and more government often causes more and more problems. Instead, the answer is found in freeing men and women, so they may think, dream, and invent...We must put the ravenous government on a diet."