John Walz, (John Walz for Congress, Courtesy)
HASTINGS — John Walz is running against Congressman Adrian Smith to represent Nebraska through the Third Congressional District.
Walz said he grew up in Wisconsin and from and from an early age was interested in the founding of the United States, the Revolutionary War and the Constitution.
After farming for several years, Walz took a job in Nebraska in 2011 and was an engineering manager for a bio-tech company.
John Walz describes himself as a “strict constitutional candidate,” on his campaign website. He stated that he is a Marine Corps veteran and he and his wife ventured into the discount grocery business in 2014.
Walz is the owner of the Food Cupboard discount grocery stores, located in Hastings and Grand Island.
The Third Congressional District has been presented by Adrian Smith since 2007.
When asked why he was running to represent the district, Walz said he took a look at his perceived trajectory of the country and said what will be left to his children’s generation, “is not a free nation, not the United States as it was intended to be.”
His vision, as stated on his website is, “To return the United States to its founding ideals as envisioned by our forefathers – a Christian constitutional republic, where the sovereign states formed a very limited federal government, with very limited enumerated powers.”
He states he stands for strict constitutional adherence, challenging the status quo of political leadership, demanding accountability from federal and state officials, promoting fiscal responsibility by eliminating the Federal Reserve, eliminating the “unconstitutional U.S. Department of Education,” and promote national sovereignty.
“It distresses me greatly to hear people talk of surrendering our sovereignty to globalists that have no interest in anything about our heritage. Globalists that want to steal our wealth and obtain power,” Walz’s campaign website states.
Walz alleges that Smith’s votes in Washington have supported what Walz sees as a “globalist” initiative to weaken the United States.
“He voted again for the surveillance of private citizens,” Walz said, citing the “Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act,” that was just signed into law by President Joe Biden.
“We just continue to vote for things that are thoroughly unconstitutional,” Walz said.
Walz has also questioned the compromises that have been made in Congress over the years and feels that the Constitution has slowly been whittled away. “Every time we compromise, we are breaking a little chunk of that off,” he said.
“We need representatives that are going to go into office that are going to hold the line and we are not going to relinquish any more of the Constitution…any more of our liberties,” Walz said.
He also cited the growth of “mega-corporations,” who have more lobbying power than the American citizen and said their actions have harmed small business and rural communities.
He said small American business cannot compete when large corporations source cheap foreign labor to offset their costs.
Walz also cited his concern over the United States debt and how it will be passed on to the next generations.
Speaking to his experience, Walz said that he is “well-versed,” in the Constitution and said he understands what the enumerated powers given to the states by the federal government includes.
He said he is also well versed on the opponents of the United States and cited, “communists, global elitists and radical Islam…We have to know what we are fighting against,” Walz said.
As an engineer he said he delt with multi-million-dollar projects and as a business owner, knows the importance of a well-set budget, Walz said.
Walz advocates for decisions to be made on the local level as much as possible. He said it doesn’t matter what industry, business, or government level; he said it is always preferable when decisions are made locally.
Editor’s Note: John Walz appeared on 1340 KGFW and this article was written using information provided during that interview. The full interview can be found here.
