These weeks are packed full of events for her. It's a good time to meet with people and local organizations that don't send people out to Washington, but still have a need to connect with their member of Congress.

When you're in Washington and voting, you don't have the one-on-one interaction with your constituents that you do when you are in the district working out of the district office. You can do phone calls and letters and things like that (in Washington), but you can do one-on-one things in the district.

Mrs. Schmidt had a meeting with Mr. Tancredo about his support for her. We understood it to be an endorsement.

Any time Republicans spend money and it isn't against Democrats, it's a distraction.

Please do not let this be the end, but the beginning of many joint meetings to better the working relationships between communities.

It is our hope we can hold these planning meetings on an annual basis and have as great a success as Grove City has had.