Thomas Hurst, U.S. Senate

Hurst, a resident of Southern Nevada for more than three decades, is a lecturer in physics at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

"I'm running for office so that people might have a chance to experience the prosperous and free state that was Nevada before insincere, politically correct, power- and money-grubbing Republican and Democrat career politicians took over Washington and emasculated the Constitution and Bill of Rights."