Lou Gigliotti to run for U.S. Congress

[Curacao]

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.

Source: http://www.heralddemocrat.com

 

[shakedown067]

I love how everyone blames the current government for our problems...it was the previous 8 years of hell that put us here. I like the issues at the end he bases his candidacy on...but blah blah blah about Texas.

 

[Z06 Rocket]

I love how everyone blames the current government for our problems...it was the previous 8 years of hell that put us here. I like the issues at the end he bases his candidacy on...but blah blah blah about Texas.

How about the years of Clinton before that? He started all the housing laws to issue bs sub standard home loans to ANYONE who wanted them regardless of ability to pay (Or else be sued by Uncle Sam). He is the direct reason for the start of the bubble that burst a few hears ago leading to the economic down turn in the US.

(short version)

 

[shakedown067]

True. The whole opening the flood gates to China was clinton too wasn't? Oh hell, they all suck. It's all a political game so one party can say they rule over another anyway. It's never a real power of the people any more. One side will always get screwed. Damn I hate politics. I'd vote for Lou though. It's like saying, "Corvette for Congress!"

 

[Ms. AntiVenom]

Clinton made it so that anyone could buy what ever the hell they wanted, now he have a bunch of people that work at McDonalds driving bmw's and hiding them from the repo man in 500,000 houses that are being foreclosed on. Nobody knows what a starter house is anymore (sorry just get heated, I dont like most my neighbors, I miss the farm) 4 years ago across the street had a sign up, New homes in the low 500s, a year later it said excepting section 8. :lmao: Welcome to Tampa I guess

Im not blaming Clinton, Or Gorgie. Its the people that are doing this to themselves. They think its o.k. to live beyond their means in this music video society. Its the people that need to be educated I think, They need to spend all that bail out money on classes for people that pretend they are rich:lmao:


I would vote for Lou he stands for everything I believe, we live in the same world so our worries are about the same, Im just missing some of his money:lmao:

 

[shakedown067]

Yeah, I guess we all like to just blame the man in the oval office and everyone else in DC, but it really does come down to society needing to take control of it's self. We really don't have an identity anymore as a country except we use things up and throw them away. A me me me society just sucks. Italy keeps looking better and better.

 

[Z06 Rocket]

Yeah, I guess we all like to just blame the man in the oval office and everyone else in DC, but it really does come down to society needing to take control of it's self. We really don't have an identity anymore as a country except we use things up and throw them away. A me me me society just sucks. Italy keeps looking better and better.

Yea the country that brought Benito Mussolini (the leader of their National Fascist Party) to power in WWII?

Mussolini led Italy into World War II on the side of Axis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini

 

[als2052]

Switching to the Independent Party is starting to sound better everyday...

 

[shakedown067]

Yea the country that brought Benito Mussolini (the leader of their National Fascist Party) to power in WWII?

Yep that one. I've been a pretty big WWII buff...I doubt I could ever move there permanently, but damn did I have a good time there for our two week honeymoon. The people where great, the country side was beautiful, the food...well I could have used more meat...but was great.

 

[Ms. AntiVenom]

I finally remembered to tell Mr.Antivenom and with a phone stuck up his ear he gave 2 thumbs up to Lou :thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[Z06 Rocket]

Yep that one. I've been a pretty big WWII buff...I doubt I could ever move there permanently, but damn did I have a good time there for our two week honeymoon. The people where great, the country side was beautiful, the food...well I could have used more meat...but was great.

I have to agree when you tell it like that. I spent 2 weeks in Germany and loved it, but the immense big brother effect there keeps me from realistically ever considering moving there permanently. If I had the money 5 months a year there and 7 here would be ideal.

 

[road pilot]

Let's see the guy drives a corvette ( I don't know if he ownes one ) and
wants to represent Texas. I guess that's enough.
I contribute to both parties but I am a registered Independent. Both
parties think they have me in their corner. HA......

 

[Shadow]

Yeah, I guess we all like to just blame the man in the oval office and everyone else in DC, but it really does come down to society needing to take control of it's self...

...Personal Responsibility...a lost art form:nonod:

 

[MADN3SS]

No politician, Republican or Democrat, runs this country. It's all Goldman Sachs!

From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they're about to do it again. -Matt Taibbi.

An excerpt I find interesting.

By now, most of us know the major players. As George Bush's last Treasury secretary, former Goldman CEO Henry Paulson was the architect of the bailout, a suspiciously self-serving plan to funnel trillions of Your Dollars to a handful of his old friends on Wall Street. Robert Rubin, Bill Clinton's former Treasury secretary, spent 26 years at Goldman before becoming chairman of Citigroup — which in turn got a $300 billion taxpayer bailout from Paulson. There's John Thain, the asshole chief of Merrill Lynch who bought an $87,000 area rug for his office as his company was imploding; a former Goldman banker, Thain enjoyed a multi billiondollar handout from Paulson, who used billions in taxpayer funds to help Bank of America rescue Thain's sorry company. And Robert Steel, the former Goldmanite head of Wachovia, scored himself and his fellow executives $225 million in golden parachute payments as his bank was self destructing. There's Joshua Bolten, Bush's chief of staff during the bailout, and Mark Patterson, the current Treasury chief of staff, who was a Goldman lobbyist just a year ago, and Ed Liddy, the former Goldman director whom Paulson put in charge of bailed out insurance giant AIG, which forked over $13 billion to Goldman after Liddy came on board. The heads of the Canadian and Italian national banks are Goldman alums, as is the head of the World Bank, the head of the New York Stock Exchange, the last two heads of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York — which, incidentally, is now in charge of overseeing Goldman — not to mention …

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29127316/the_great_american_bubble_machine/print

Interesting read. I'm no conspiracy theorist, but I think everything is about money and power, and the male ego. If everyone wasn't after more money, power, property, etc., There would never be any wars.

 

[ironhorse]

...Personal Responsibility...a lost art form:nonod:

Shadow got it dead on...Alot of people out there do not know how in the hell to take responsability for there own actions...They want to blame someone else for there short comings...:ack2:

 

[thebeepster]

Long gone is the old trait of SELF RELIANCE...people expect the gubmint to take care of everybody and cure ALL ills. Go Lou!! You da man!!!:yesnod:

 

[Shadow]

Long gone is the old trait of SELF RELIANCE...people expect the gubmint to take care of everybody and cure ALL ills. Go Lou!! You da man!!!:yesnod:

Another fine and poignant post:thumbsup::thumbsup:

Self reliance and personal responsibility, combined with some "fiscal" responsibility on our own on the part of the government, and leadership without agendas, will put this country back on course.

Otherwise...we're screwed....JMHO

 

[Shadow]

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.

Hell, on that platform alone, I'd support him for PRESIDENT!:thumbsup::thumbsup:

All great ideas:thumbsup:

Unfortunately, at the same time, all that will likely bury him in an election....:nonod:

I wish him luck. I can't vote for him since I'm not from Texas, but I can send him $$$

 

[Rich Z]

Hell, on that platform alone, I'd support him for PRESIDENT!:thumbsup::thumbsup:

All great ideas:thumbsup:

Unfortunately, at the same time, all that will likely bury him in an election....:nonod:

I wish him luck. I can't vote for him since I'm not from Texas, but I can send him $$$

Yeah, it's pretty telling that the media will crucify anyone who believes in the principles that originally made this country great. It's exactly the fact that those sorts of "choices" being attacked and besmirched to try like hell to keep them from being a credible threat to the status quo make me so jaded about the obviously false claims that we have a legitimate say in the direction of our government.

You do have to wonder how much longer that actually REAL information will be available on the internet. Sooner or later the truth and unbiased commentary will be every bit as difficult to come by on the net as it is in the other mediums.