HYANNIS – One of the Republicans running for the U.S. Senate brought his new campaign RV to downtown Hyannis Wednesday.
Whitman State Rep Geoff Diehl, who is one of four Republican candidates vying for the party’s nomination to challenge Sen. Elizabeth Warren, said his campaign will be rolling across the state to talk to voters about lowering their taxes, fighting illegal immigration and growing jobs.
Diehl said, unlike Warren, he will not spend his time writing and selling books.
“We have a track record of making sure that we are working for the people of Massachusetts listening to them and this senate race is going to be a continuation of that,” he said.
“Now we have the ability to travel around the state.”
If elected senator, Diehl said he will use the RV as a mobile office and will go town to town to hear the concerns of residents and help solve their problems.
“Unlike the incumbent, I won’t ignore the state for years,” Diehl said. “Cape residents won’t have to drive to Boston to see their senator or wait years for a town hall meeting. We will bring our mobile office to the Cape.”
The RV, a 2004 Fleetwood Fiesta 32, was purchased off of Craigslist.org. His team of interns scraped off all of the previous logos and wrapped the vehicle in campaign images. Over hours 80 hours of work was put into the effort to transform the RV at a cost of $22,000.
He will be traveling to several other Massachusetts communities this week, including Fall River, New Bedford and Taunton.
Diehl said his work on the 2014 ballot question to stop automatic gas tax hikes sets him apart from the other republican candidates.
“I am the only candidate on the republican side of the ticket who has delivered an actual tax decrease to the people of Massachusetts – to the tune of $2 billion,” Diehl said.
Diehl, who served as the co-chairman of Donald Trump’s election campaign in the Commonwealth, said he supports the president and his administration.
“I will be going down to Washington, like I said, to be a partner with Congress and the Whitehouse to deliver for the people of Massachusetts when it comes to healthcare, when it comes to transportation needs,” he said. “I will have that seat at the table when Elizabeth Warren will not.”
Other republicans running for the seat include Beth Lindstrom, a one-time aide to former Gov. Mitt Romney, Winchester businessman John Kingston and Cambridge tech entrepreneur Shiva Ayyadurai.
By BRIAN MERCHANT, CapeCod.com NewsCenter
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