 Prior experience in politics included serving as Joe Scarborough’s political director and as field director for U.S. Representative Rick White’s 1998 re-election campaign.At the time he owned his own one-person landscaping business in Hillsboro, Kitts Executive Landscaping, and was a wrestling coach at Glencoe High School in Hillsboro.Kitts faced Dawn Phillips in the May 2002 Republican primary with the chance to run against Aron Carleson in the November general election, as Democrat Carleson was running unopposed in her primary.