05/31/2024
Another fantastic crew from yesteryear! Friends we are coming down to the last few days before the June 4th primary vote. I appreciate you all and thank you for supporting me. Below will be the interview posted from the Southwest Iowa Herald/Shen Valley News. If you have further questions about my platform, please send me a DM.
One final ask, if you have opportunities to tell your Page County friends what you like about my candidacy and encourage them to vote, that is appreciated as well. Voting is a privilege and even if they vote for someone else, it is something everyone should do to have a voice in local politics and decisionmaking.
**Realizing every resident has a voice, TJ Horn of Coin is hoping to unite Page County as a member of the board of supervisors.
Horn is one of three candidates running to represent District 1 on the Page County Board of Supervisors in the Republican Primary to be held June 4. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. the day of the primary.
Also on the ballot for the District 1 Supervisor race are Jeff Eshelman and Brian Rogers. Jacob Holmes currently holds the Board of Supervisors District 1 seat. However, he did not file to run in the Republican Primary.
The winner of the primary will advance to the general election in November as the Republican candidate for the position. No candidates filed for the Board of Supervisors District 1 seat in the Democratic Primary, also to be held June 4, suggesting the winner of Republican Primary may be unopposed in the general election.
Horn has lived in Coin for 30 years. He and his wife, Tammy, have been married for 11 years. They have two adult daughters, one living in Clarinda and the other in College Springs, and two grandchildren.
An employee of IAMO Communications, Horn has 30 years of experience with the company. Horn has also served on the Coin Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department for 28 years including the past 15 as Fire Chief.
“Between my job with the telephone company and my duties with the fire department, I believe I’m familiar with the rural areas of Page County and their needs,” Horn said. “In all my travels it appears the county is split a little bit. Every resident in the county has a voice. If we can come together as a whole, it will improve the day to day operations of the entire county.”
In addition to volunteering with the fire department, Horn has also served various terms on the Coin City Council as well as two terms as mayor. He believes that experience would benefit him as a supervisor.
“I think it’s good to have that kind of experience. The board of supervisors is bigger in scale than the city of Coin, but I have an idea where to start. I am familiar with a wide variety of issues like ordinances, laws, budgetary items and dealing with the public,” Horn said.
Horn said he has considered running for the Page County Board of Supervisors over the years and believed this was the time to do so. Horn said he would actually favor expanding the board of supervisors from three members to five.
“In talking to people out in the county, a lot of them have shown interest in going back to five. I don’t know how much that will get pushed, but five people would give the board more diversity. There would be other opinions to consider and it would provide more eyes and ears to support the county,” Horn said.
If elected to the board of supervisors, Horn said the two biggest topics the county would have to face during his term are renewable energy and road conditions. Horn said he favors exploring renewable energy projects that could benefit the county over time.
“I see it being a positive thing, but everybody has their own voice. I believe renewable energy has the potential to bring in revenue for the county and to create jobs that would attract new residents to Page County. I think it could be beneficial in a variety of ways,” Horn said.
As for the condition of the roads in Page County, Horn said the Secondary Road Department does a tremendous job keeping up with the demands of maintaining the roads. Those demands include the heavy amount of equipment and traffic traveling on the roads as well as the weather challenges of the Midwest.
“I know the board has discussed using different types of rock. To me, I’ll leave that to the experts. Without doing some research I can’t tell them to do something different,” Horn said.**
