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Thank you for having breakfast with me.
Let me tell you why I am running for Congress.
I love America. I am a Patriot. A Patriot is a person willing to make sacrifices for his country.
My patriotic heroes are:
- Nathan Hale – “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country” Then the Brits hanged him.
- Patrick Henry — “Give me liberty or give me death”And my favorite –-
- John Paul Jones – As his ship the Bonhomme Richard was sinking, the British captain asked if he was ready to give up and he said: “Sir, I have not yet begun to fight”.This is my motto too – I have not yet begun to fight.
Since I am asking you to vote for me I thought you would like to know me better.
I am a life time member of the NRA – Gun Owners of America, the Second Amendment Foundation, and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. I support the Second Amendment and an individual’s right to keep and bear arms.
I have a beautiful collection of Winchester Lever-Action rifles.
I have a lifetime of creating jobs, balancing budgets, and getting things done for working men and women.
I have worked in manufacturing and foreign commerce for over 56 years. That is more experience than all of Congress, the President, the Secretary of Commerce, the US Trade Representative and Kathy and Jane all combined.
I am married with 6 children, 13 grandchildren, and 4 great grandchildren. This election is about the debt and poverty we are leaving our children.
I grew up in Western New York and graduated from Amherst Central High School and from the University of Buffalo with a degree in engineering.
I served in the Marine Corp and as an officer in the United States Coast Guard.
In 1964, I founded the I Squared R Element Company which I own and manage. I started the company in my garage. Our United States competitors were two large multinational corporations, Carborundum and Norton. Everyone said I would not survive.
Well I proved them wrong. Those multinational corporations no longer exist and my company is thriving.
I Squared R is the world-leader and now the only United States manufacturer of silicon carbide heating elements. They are used in high temperature electric furnaces. The plant is located in Akron.
I created good paying jobs, offer employees a good health care plan and a fully funded profit sharing retirement plan.
The company is not for sale and I have never outsourced a single job.
When I retire I will give my company to the employees.
This rewards my employees for years of loyal service and insures I Squared R will not be sold, moved, or closed. Now that is what I call job security.
Last year I donated five million dollars to the University of Buffalo School of Engineering to help with the education of students from Western New York. I will self fund my campaign with three million dollars.
I am 78 and not enrolled in Social Security or Medicare. When elected I will work for one dollar a year and will not take a government pension or health care.
I have been a fiscal Conservative all my life and a Republican most of my life. I voted for Eisenhower, Nixon, Goldwater and Reagan (twice). I also voted for other Republican presidents. I am now an Independent.
Some question my switching of political parties.
I had and have very good reasons – it was to fight the off shoring of our jobs.
Both parties are off shoring our jobs.
From kindergarten on I pledged allegiance to the United States of American, not the leaders of the Republican or Democratic parties.
In the special election on May 24th I will be on the Tea Party Line.
When sworn in as your Congressman I will introduce a bill to cut spending by one quarter of a trillion dollars.
I will cut foreign aid to countries that hate us. We can make countries like Germany and Japan foot the bill to defend themselves.
We can cut corporate welfare and corporate tax loop holes. As an example of a tax loop hole – General Electric 2010 U.S. profits were 5.1 billion dollars. General Electric’s 2010 U.S. taxes were zero.
We can cut spending by not bombing Libya.
As a former Marine and officer in the Coast Guard, I say our troops have fought long enough in Iraq and Afghanistan and we won. Those countries have held elections. We can bring the troops home.
I oppose partial birth abortion and all federal funding for abortion and agencies that provide abortion.
Economics 101 — The only way to produce wealth is grow, dig or make products.
We have become a nation of consumers of foreign products. Therefore we have a huge foreign debt and huge national debt.
We are paying over four dollars a gallon for gasoline because we are spending billions of dollars for oil from unstable Muslim countries that hate us.
We must drill for oil in Anwar and off the east and west coasts and the Gulf of Mexico.
We must develop all the U.S. energy resources available in a responsible manner — coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, hydro, solar, wind, geothermal and biomass.
We should not burn corn in our cars – we should eat it.
American should make everything it consumes or uses from the simplest cloth to CAT scan machines.
Cutting spending is good but will not solve all the deficit problems by itself.
The key to reducing the deficit is putting Americans back to work. The inflow of revenue to the U.S. Treasury and the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds from taxes paid by working Americans and profits from businesses will solve the deficit problems.
American companies will not hire American workers until they have a level playing field.
Manufacturing companies need trade balancing tariffs to be competitive with the predatory trade policies of foreign countries, like China. This will level the playing field.
We cannot make foreign countries do something they don’t want to do — but we can control our borders and cancel free trade agreements. Thiswill put Americans back to work.
The President and leaders of both political parties continue to push free trade agreements like NAFTA – now with Korea, Columbia and Panama. We have seen the damage NAFTA has done to our country.
I will fight the new NAFTAs that Obama and the Republicans are pushing.
The White House and Congress are controlled by the money from multinational corporations and by Wall Street.
They will not control me. I cannot be bought.
In a perfect world there are not liars. Unfortunately we don’t live in a perfect world. Jane Corwin is a liar. She has stated “Liberal Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Jack Davis must be stopped”.
I am not a Liberal Democrat and never have been. I will caucus with G.O.P.
Kathy Hochul is also a liar. She stated I support the Ryan Bill. The Ryan Bill does not reduce spending enough and will cut Medicare benefits. I do not support Ryan Bill and never did. I will not cut Social Security or Medicare benefits. I will put American’s back to work. This will provide the money to make the trust funds solvent.
I deplore lying and dirty politics. I planned on running a clean campaign and keeping the contest on a high plain by presenting my personal qualifications and my platform.
Jane is attacking me with lies and she has sent her New York State Assembly Chief of Staff to harass and provoke me into a fight after a meeting with over 100 veterans. He called me a coward.
Jane’s plan back fired when a Channel 2 camera man recorded a portion of the harassment.
I am not going to let anyone push me around and I am certainly not going to let them push you around either. Lying Jane, of course, denies any knowledge of the harassment.
Jane and her Republican henchmen have been a sad disappointment to me.
At one time I was proud to be a Republican and believed they were the honest and trustworthy party – I know better now.
I think the other Republicans would be disgusted too if they knew how badly a businessman and Goldwater and Reagan Republican was treated.
I am a Marine, a patriot and a fighter and I have dedicated the rest my life to cutting spending and saving jobs, farms and industries.
To do this I need to go to Washington as your Congressman.
I cannot do this alone. I only have one vote. On May 24th, the day of the Special Election — IT IS YOU – You, who will make the change we need.
Please ask your family, your friends, and your neighbors to vote for a fighter, a marine, and a patriot.
Remember … “I have not yet begun to fight”.
America and our children are depending on you.
Thank you.
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