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News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Lisa Church Aug. 3, 2006 DAVID PEARCE ANNOUNCES SENATE CANIDACY (WARRENSBURG, Mo.) - A Johnson County Republican and member of the Missouri House of Representatives announced Thursday that he plans to run for the state’s 31st District Senate seat. Rep. David Pearce (R-Warrensburg) announced Friday that he will run for the Missouri Senate in November 2008. The Senate district covers Johnson, Cass, Bates and Vernon counties in western Missouri. “I have appreciated the opportunity to represent constituents’ interests in Jefferson City and want to continue the work that we’ve begun,” Pearce said. “I see the next several years as being pivotal in the development of our state’s policies on economic development, education and issues that affect the family. I want to see that work through so that it yields meaningful initiatives to attract industry, create jobs and improve education, particularly higher education. ” Pearce is serving his third two-year term in the House. During that time, he has sponsored legislation to add cell phones and faxes to the state’s No Call List, prohibit sexually-oriented billboards, bar the operation of private treatment centers for convicted sex offenders and protect Second Amendment rights on the state level. He also has co-sponsored pro-life legislation and sponsored and authored HB 741, an economic development bill that provided statewide incentives for job creation and agriculture. In the past legislative session, he served as Vice Chairman of the Higher Education Committee, and a member of the Public Safety Committee and Corrections Committee of Appropriations. He also was appointed to the Missouri Military Preparedness Commission and special committees on Job Creation and Economic Development and Evaluation of the 911 System. Pearce has a long history of community and public service, having served as executive director of the Warrensburg Chamber of Commerce for six years and as a member of the Warrensburg Board of Education and the Whiteman Air Force Base Community Council. He currently is Vice President of First Community Bank in Warrensburg. He has received numerous awards and honored including: --30--
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