SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — In Missouri’s 135th District, Democratic incumbent Betsy Fogle is hoping to be elected for a third consecutive term.
Republican challenger Michael Hasty is hoping to flip the district back to the GOP for the first time since Fogle was elected in 2020.
OzarksFirst spoke to both candidates weeks ahead of the election about their campaign and voter issues.
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Fogle says she wants to build on her four years of progress.
“My role as a Democrat here in Missouri, I’m one of three elected Democrats in the lower half of the state. I work in a building with a supermajority of Republicans in both chambers in both the House and the Senate. My role in Jefferson City is to try to continue to bring balance to the policy discussions and policy debates that we have to, most importantly, focus on the issues that are important to House District 135. Those issues, there are many that are important to my constituents, but at the top of the list would be access to health care and access to quality education for our kids and making sure that I’m taking the voices of my constituents to Jefferson City and focusing on the things that they ask me to focus on,” Fogle said.