UNDERHEIM ANNOUNCES RE-ELECTION BID

OSHKOSH - State Rep. Gregg Underheim wants to continue what he's already
started.

Citing past campaign promises he said he's fulfilled, Underheim, R-Oshkosh,
announced he will seek a ninth consecutive term representing the 54th
Assembly district during the November election.

"When people vote for me, they're very clear on what they're going to get
because I tell them what I'm going to get," Underheim said. "I think I've
demonstrated in the long haul that you can count on what I say."

Underheim said he has adhered to his promises from his last campaign in
2002 by not raising taxes in order to solve the state budget crisis and has
authored legislation allowing the public to reduce the size of county
boards, creating a repository for cancer drugs and supplies and authoring a
bill aimed at legalizing medicinal marijuana.

"My job is to go out and talk to the citizens of Oshkosh and ask them for
their vote and that's what I intend to do," he said.

Underheim said he would use his ninth two-year term to reduce the rate of
growth of government and to continue to work on clearing up "Wisconsin's
regulatory environment"

"We have to continue to work on Wisconsin's jobs climate," he said. "You
can 't starve vital institutions like the university, but you have to
control the rate of spending."

Filed by the Oshkosh Northwestern