Throughout Melina Fox's campaign, she has tried to focus on oneissue.
"I'm going to listen," Fox said.
Fox, the Democratic nominee for Indiana's sixth district U.S.representative, said she decided to run for office becausecitizens' concerns were not getting through to the government.
"I felt more and more from people in the district that theirvoice isn't being heard in Washington; it's Washington's voicebeing heard here," Fox said.
The issues she wants to bring to Washington include help forcollege funding, improving the environment and encouragingentrepreneurship in Indiana.
Fox wants to help women by making college tax exempt, shesaid.
"Young women are worried about paying for college," she said."It should be tax exempt."
Fox said she would like to start by making college exempt forall first-time students and then, if that was successful, open theprogram to all college students.
She also wants to help college graduates find jobs byencouraging entrepreneurship in Indiana, Fox said.
"A lot of it is about the mindset in Indiana," she said. "Weneed to be more open to entrepreneurship.
"People who are progressive know that for every success, thereare many, many failures."
Fox's husband is involved with Ball State University'sentrepreneurship program and said she wants to help implementsuggestions from the program.
Increasing broadband technology is also important for attractingsmall businesses, she said.
Fox, who is starting an organic farm with her husband, alsostressed the importance of a clean environment.
"People in our district love to fish and hunt, and you have totake care of the environment for that," she said.
Fox has been studying new means of renewable energy that shesaid she was not allowed to discuss yet.
"It's even more exciting than ethanol," she said.
Fox ran against Mike Pence, the Republican incumbent for theoffice and her competition in this race, in 2000.
Fox earned degrees in sociology and political science fromPurdue University and a master's degree in secondary education fromIndiana University. She served on the United States Department ofAgriculture Farm Service Agency State Committee from 1992 to2000.
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