Ep 216 | Aired 10/28/2020

My guest today on Up In Your Business with Kerry McCoy is someone that has been in the news a lot lately: Congressman French Hill of the US House of Representatives. The first time I had the pleasure of interviewing Congressman Hill was in 2016, when he graciously accepted my invitation to appear on my radio show. French, as I have come to call him, was only my 6th interview.

It happened one day when the Congressman was in my store at Flagandbanner.com, buying his annual US and POW replacement flags. I saw him at the checkout counter and nervously asked this very busy man if he would consider joining me on the radio. When he agreed, I thought I had hit the big time.

Mr. Hill is well known for his success at founding and chairing Delta Trust & Bank in 1999. Many of us, myself included, think his political career began when he ran for Arkansas’s 2nd congressional seat in 2015. But in truth, French was a senior policy advisor to President George H.W. Bush, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, and senior advisor to Governor Mike Huckabee and has worked on momentous economic policies between the US and Japan, called the Structural Impediments Initiative, and with Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Today, Congressman Hill is in a tight race with Arkansas Senator Joyce Elliot. Listen to hear more than a sound bite from Congressman French Hill. And if you want to get some back history on how and why he founded Delta Trust and Bank, his opinion of international free trade (which he is in favor of), why he thinks minimum wage should be handled state by state, and his favorable opinion of specialized trade schools, check out his past interview. It is fun!