CAMPAIGN
PAID FOR BY VICTORIA SPARTZ FOR CONGRESS
Victoria Spartz: R e p u b l i c a n C a n d i d at e f o r I n d i a n a’ s 5 t h Congressional District Running to Bring L i b e r t y, J u s t i c e a n d Economic Opportunity for All Americans Writer // Submitted • Photography // Submitted
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XPERIENCING THE AMERICAN DREAM
As we all know, politicians love to talk a great deal about the American dream; however, few can legitimately say they have lived it. Victoria Spartz, Republican candidate for Indiana’s 5th Congressional District, is one of those who speaks from experience. Having come to the United States 20 years ago from Ukraine, Spartz has lived the American dream firsthand. As a result, Spartz feels a strong responsibility to step up and give back to the country that has provided her so many opportunities. In outlining one of the reasons she is running for
added a master’s in accounting after coming to Indiana before earning her license as a certified public accountant. As a CPA, she worked for the Big Four public accounting firms auditing complex publicly traded Fortune 500 companies, taught at the IU Kelley School of Business in Indianapolis and served as the CFO of the Indiana attorney general’s office. With regard to her work as a CPA, Spartz stated, “The public accounting profession is a high-integrity and high-accountability profession that gave me an enormous understanding of businesses and finances in a variety of industries. I was au-
Congress, Spartz said, “…I want to give what I can to this country, to the hardworking Hoosiers who are struggling now and to their children who deserve the same freedom and opportunity that have always been the American experience. I will do my best to get our economy back on track, strengthen our foundations and protect our rights.”
EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE AS A BUSINESS OWNER AND CPA Spartz acknowledges that politics was not her first choice of endeavor in the U.S. She arrived in the U.S. with a master’s degree in international business from a university in Ukraine and
diting manufacturing firms all over the country even as I was pregnant with our first child. I audited insurance, banks, pharma, health care, consumer finance, investment funds, consumer goods, government entities, and I worked on a variety of major projects, including training and auditing auditors. However, the travel was taking a toll on my family, and we decided to expand our farming business so I could spend more time in town with my family…” Spartz met her husband, Jason, a lifelong Hoosier, on a train in Europe soon after the fall of the Soviet Union. Spartz came to the U.S. and central Indiana in 2000, got married
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