Along with five others, Lou Gigliotti will seek the Republican Party's nomination to Texas' Fourth District of the U.S. Congress. He cited his 40 years experience as a business owner, his education and service as a math teacher as his qualifications.
He is running, he said, because, "My heart is aching as I watch my country fall apart into the depths of socialism. We are seeing wild spending by a government that is writing bad checks that we have to cover. It is time to take our country back."
He said he is just an ordinary guy, "just as the founders of our Constitution were. I will risk everything I have to help take America back from the progressives in power now."
Gigliotti said with a laugh, "I moved to Texas just over 26 years ago. I had to travel to Dallas on business once a month and I fell in love with Texas. And as they say, if I knew how good it was here, I would have come sooner."
In addition to the love of his life, wife Karen and their two children, he's also attracted to Corvettes -- selling them, racing them and supplying parts for them.
"We started our performance and racing business in 1988," Gigliotti said. "LG Motorsports Inc. has 10 employees and our whole family works there. The company was born from our Corvette racing team but it has grown to be a great small business in Wylie, Texas, employing 10-14 employees. We all say that our company provides for 10 families. And everyone there works hard for what we have."
Gigliotti earned a bachelor of arts degree from Alfred University and worked toward his master's of business of administration at American University in Washington, DC.
"It is not government that can hand out success; it can only ensure equal opportunity, not equal results," Gigliotti said. "I love my country and I love Texas. Texas is the last free state in the union, and it might be the last free country in America if we don't take the United States back."
Among the issues he bases his candidacy on, Gigliotti said, are border security, English as the official language; stop government spending by freezing hiring and eliminate government jobs as people retire; defend the Constitution, particularly the First Amendment guarantees of free speech on airways and the Internet and the Second Amendment.
He said he'd also like to maintain the military as the first-class institution it is; never use tax dollars to fund abortion; abolish the 16th amendment that provides for the income tax; repeal the 17th amendment that allows all citizens of a state to vote for their senators in favor of allowing state elected officials to choose U.S. senators; drill for petroleum in Texas; hold voting on just one day.
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Lou Gigliotti to run for U.S. Congress
Welcome to Tampa I guess
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