Democrat Lucas Kunce is one of four candidates challenging Republican Josh Hawley in this year’s Senate race.
The Independence-based attorney touted his 13 years of service in the Marine Corps as qualifying him to represent Missouri in the U.S. Senate.
“I was deployed to Iraq, where I led a police training team, 12 Marines, and a Navy officer, and we traveled up and down the road from Fallujah… to Ramadi, directing missions and making sure everyone was safe. I tried to get him back home, and thankfully I was able to do that,” Kunce said. he told Missourinet. “And I deployed to Afghanistan twice. I worked for the Department of Defense. I did arms control negotiations and procurement and things like that.”
He said he plans to approach his job the same way no matter who is in the White House next year.
“Our state has been ignored for far too long, so anyone who can help us bring funding back to this state, and anyone who can help us fundamentally change the power in this country. Anyone, I’m willing to work with them,” Kunce said. “And people who don’t care about those things think I need to be against those issues, right?”
Kouns, who has never held elected office before, told Missourinet why he is seeking the U.S. Senate seat rather than a lower-ranking office.
“Well, why would anyone want to climb that ladder and fall apart along the way? (That would be) my answer to that question,” he said. “Again, the only people I want to owe money to are the people I grew up with. Unless we get people with a track record of activism outside of politics, we’re literally in a situation where people can’t owe money. I think we’re going to continue to fall into the trap of letting campaign donors strip our communities of parts. ”
Kuhns and Hawley are not the only candidates vying for the U.S. Senate. Green Party member Nathan Klein, Better Party member Jared Young, and Libertarian WC Young are also running.
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