Last Tuesday was a tremendous day for the campaign as Luke won the primary election to be the Republican nominee to become the next congressman from Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District.  Below is a clip, courtesy of WSBT-TV, of the opening part of Luke’s acceptance speech.  This speech was given at the St. Joseph County GOP headquarters on the south side of South Bend.

Thank you to everyone who made our victory possible. We appreciate your efforts and look forward to winning in the fall with your help!

Note: Luke was asked by the Pharos-Tribune to write a brief op-ed about why he was running for Congress. Below is what he wrote.

By: Luke Puckett

My name is Luke Puckett and I’m running for Congress in Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District. As a small businessman, father, and citizen I’m running for Congress because I believe that we need common sense solutions to the challenges facing our country. The status quo in Washington needs to change and the actions of this Congress offer us no hope that real change is imminent.

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We’ll see how this works out, but right now I’m going to try to do an occasional post with links to websites and blogs that have run articles or posts about our campaign.  The 2.0 version will be for the “new media” or the blogs and other websites that are talking about us.  The 1.0 version will be for the more traditional news media (memo to conventional media folks: Don’t take the 1.0 designation wrong, most folks are still using 1.0 and 2.0 is still growing).

Today we’ve been in two blog posts so far:

Dan Turkette has this piece up on his site Ft. Wayne News.

Yours truly has this piece up on Hoosier Access.

And there is this interesting Facebook page that has started up in support of Luke.

Disclaimer: The appearance of links on this blog does not mean that the campaign endorses every aspect of those sites.

On Wednesday, Bob Montgomery of WSBT Radio interviewed Luke Puckett on why he’s running for Congress.

Listen to the interview here.

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