The following is the National Republican Congressional Committee’s (NRCC) response to Reid Ribble’s candidacy announcement: “Steve Kagen campaigned for a ‘fiscally responsible’ system in Washington, but he has done nothing but bolster a fiscally-irresponsible party led by Nancy Pelosi.  Kagen’s vote for a trillion-dollar stimulus bill undoubtedly would have come back to haunt him, but Reid Ribble’s candidacy presents an...

From National Review online http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTUyY2E1Zjc2NjIwNGMwMTYzY2MxZmFhMzE5M2RlYjE= But there’s more. Reid Ribble, a roofing contractor who’s announced a bid against Wisconsin Democrat Steve Kagen, might seem like a sequel to Joe the Plumber — “Reid the Roofer.” But he’s been managing the family business, an establishment that’s been in the Fox Cities area for three generations. Elsewhere in...

By J.E. Espino Post-Crescent staff writer July 9, 2009 http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20090709/APC0101/907090538/1979/APC0901 A Kaukauna roofing contractor with no experience in politics says his dissatisfaction with Congress and the rising national debt have caused him to enter the GOP primary to unseat two-term Democrat Steve Kagen in 2010. Reid Ribble, 53, says he filed nomination papers Tuesday, a week after he visited Washington, D.C.,...