HARRISONVILLE — Into the final week of campaign 2010 and the Vicky Hartzler for Congress campaign has released two new TV ads and a radio commercial designed to draw contrasts between the 4th Congressional District Republican candidate and her Democrat opponent – 17-term incumbent Ike Skelton.

The first television ad features former Ike Skelton supporters telling viewers that they once supported Mr. Skelton but are no longer behind him because too many years in Washington, D.C. have changed the person they once voted for.

“The Ike Skelton so many 4th District residents voted for over the years is gone,” said Hartzler. “The Ike Skelton representing our district today is not the independent voice he claims to be. He is a rubber stamp for reckless spending bills, cap-and-tax, card check which would remove the right of workers to vote on forming unions, and other travesties championed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with whom Mr. Skelton votes 95 percent of the time. We deserve better.”

The second TV ad provides viewers with three military veterans, including a former commandant at Fort Leonard Wood, explaining why they are supporting Vicky Hartzler. They respond to Skelton campaign lies and distortions about Hartzler’s votes more than a decade ago in the Missouri Legislature and make clear their view that Hartzler is very pro-military and will, when she gets to Washington, be a friend to our men and women who have served and who are serving.

The radio commercial responds to the many lies and distortions manufactured by Mr. Skelton in a desperate effort to hold onto his seat at all costs. It reminds voters that it is Vicky Hartzler who received the endorsement of the Missouri Farm Bureau. It also reminds voters it is Mr. Skelton who has voted for Nancy Pelosi’s job-killing agenda.

Vicky and Lowell Hartzler live near Harrisonville in Cass County, where they operate a diversified crop and livestock family farming operation. They own Hartzler Equipment Company, a family business with three stores in the 4th District. A former classroom teacher, Hartzler served in the Missouri House of Representatives from 1995-2001, winning with an average 66 percent of the vote in her three election victories. In 2004, she was spokesperson for Missouri’s successful constitutional amendment to protect traditional marriage.