Leppert: Honesty in Washington

TYLER — KTBB’s Paul Gleiser sat down with conservative Texas Republican, Tom Leppert, who is in the running for running for the U.S. Senate. The former Dallas Mayor says anyone who’s worked in business know that you have to be honest and in Washington, nobody’s being honest. He asks, “At what point do we solve the problem? Do we continue marching down the same road where the spending is not addressed and the debt continues to go up?”

The former Dallas Mayor says he has a business background which not many politicians have. He says he has been in the public sector with a private life. He says he’s run businesses in a variety of industries, and in order to run a business, you have to be honest. The hopeful said nobody is being honest in Washington. Lemmert added, “there’s not enough folks that have a real sense of how to cut dollars and how to create jobs, in Washington, the senate or the administration.” He said more people are needed with that background.

Leppert said he brings a business expertise and says, most importantly, he doesn’t want to be a professional politician. He said he wants to address the issues and go on with his life.