Name: Sam Graves<\/p>\n
Residence: Tarkio, Missouri<\/p>\n
Party: Republican<\/p>\n
Background: University of Missouri (agronomy); farmer; Missouri Senate; U.S. House since 2001.<\/p>\n
Platform: Supports gun rights, strong national defense, reduction of federal regulations to create jobs, strengthening the nation's infrastructure, replacing income tax with a national sales tax.<\/p>\n
Name: Chris Ryan<\/p>\n
Residence: Liberty, Missouri<\/p>\n
Party: Republican<\/p>\n
Background: Park University degree in public administration; served in U.S. Marines; candidate for 6th District seat in 2012, 2014 and 2016.<\/p>\n
Platform: National debt, securing the nations borders, taking care of veterans and self-imposition of term limits.<\/p>\n
Name: Henry Martin<\/p>\n
Residence: Kansas City, Missouri<\/p>\n
Party: Democrat<\/p>\n
Background: Army veteran, served in Iraq; National Guard; math teacher, coach and school administrator.<\/p>\n
Platform: Justice reform, infrastructure, health care and expansion of internet broadband.<\/p>\n
Name: Dr. Gena Ross<\/p>\n
Residence: Platte City, Missouri<\/p>\n
Party: Democrat<\/p>\n
Background: Minneapolis native; doctorate in public policy and administration from Walden University; teaches at Kansas City, Kansas, Community College.<\/p>\n
Platform: Infrastructure, health care, education, expansion of internet broadband, public engagement, increase in federal minimum wage.<\/p>\n
Name: Charles West<\/p>\n
Residence: Canton, Missouri<\/p>\n
Party: Democrat<\/p>\n
Background: Culver-Stockton College; account manager for electrical contracting company; member Clark County school board.<\/p>\n
Platform: Education, health care, infrastructure, jobs and working together for the common good regardless of partisan ties.<\/p>\n
Name: Donald Robert Sartain<\/p>\n
Residence: St. Joseph, Missouri<\/p>\n
Party: Democrat<\/p>\n
Background: Army veteran and National Guard, lifelong Missourian who has lived in the 6th District since 1980.<\/p>\n
Platform: Reduce the national debt, balance the federal budget, institute a progressive tax structure, limit congressional terms.<\/p>\n
Name: Jim Higgins<\/p>\n
Residence: St. Louis, Missouri<\/p>\n
Party: Libertarian<\/p>\n
Background: Ohio University; retired civil engineer and systems analyst; candidate for office dating back to the 1990s, most recently for St. Louis County Council in 2019.<\/p>\n
Platform: Follows the Libertarian playbook of reducing the size and interference of government and belief that government's primary responsibility is \"protecting people from force and fraud.\"<\/p>\n
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