I received the 2024 Guide today and found the LD 17 candidate statements interesting. None of the three Republicans mentioned education, water, or reproductive rights, the top three local issues. Vince Leach seems to focus on taking over federal responsibilities by creating a state border patrol, surveillance, and state immigration policies. The other two want to keep doing what they did last term which was to make education funding worse and send us back to the 1800s for reproductive rights.