9/12 Candidate: Earl H. Sholley | U.S. Congress 4th District – MA
Posted by Jacob Roecker on July 26, 2009 under 9/12 Candidates | 
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About Earl (from SholleyforCongress.us):
I am the son of an iron ore miner and a farmer’s daughter. My mother is 81 years young, and she still mows her own lawn. She is my greatest blessing! My parents taught my brother and me the values of hard work, family, education, God and country, determination, and honesty. My father was killed in a mining accident when I was a baby. My step-dad, who also worked in the ore mines, was a hard-working union man at Bethlehem Steel. Later in his career, he had a white collar job with the same company. He saw the corporate world from both sides of the fence. It gives me a unique perspective of labor and management. My Mom was a dedicated federal supervisor who often brought work home to complete on the kitchen table. She taught me about honest public service, organization, efficiency, and heroic virtue. I am the proud father of two very successful daughters. We lost their mother, and my wife of 25 years, to breast cancer in 2006.
I am a graduate of the University of Scranton, 1970(BS History), and the University of Massachusetts,1978(BS Plant & Soil Sciences). I also studied at the University of Madrid, Spain( Georgetown University Junior Year Abroad Program). I served in the Peace Corps, and in the US Army where I attained the rank of Sergeant. I was a Tank Commander. I received many awards for leadership, training, physical abilities, and management.
I have worked in the areas of race relations, advocacy for fathers and families, and legal reform. I am a proud Eagle Scout, a 5-time finisher of the Boston Marathon(twice officially), a delegate to my party’s state and national conventions, and a graduate of the MA Senate’s Legislative Seminar.
I owned a retail flower shop and garden center for several years, and was the owner and manager of Grass Roots Lawn & Landscape Company for 24 years.
I am a member of the Appalachian Mountain Club, NRA, Eagle Scout Association, K of C, and the American Legion. I am a former board member of Massachusetts Citizens for Life.
I have collected tens of thousands of signatures to end the income tax, preserve traditional marriage, promulgate a presumption of shared custody, provide for budget transparency and better use of our tax dollars, and to make the Massachusetts legislature a part-time legislative body with part-time pay and benefits as is the case in 41 other states. I have lobbied extensively for DSS reform, divorce reform, legal reform and judicial accountability, the election of judges, fair child support guidelines, equal rights for fathers, and parental rights. I organized a lawsuit that was filed in the Federal District Court in Boston accusing the Massachusetts Family Court of blatant gender discrimination against men and fathers, and violation of their Fourteenth Amendment Rights to Equal Protection. I was a guest on Court TV, CBS This Morning, National Public Radio, and many other venues across the country. I have had numerous opinion articles published in various newspapers around the state.
THOUGHTS & IDEAS
Our elected and appointed officials work for the people. Our form of government is a Constitutional Republic. Liberty without moral order, God, and individual responsibility will not endure. It is Of, By, and For the People. It is time to demand action and accountability. They have become too arrogant, tools of the vested interests, elitist, intoxicated with power, and they spend money like drunkards. The people want change! I want to reform government. Help me to transform the Congress to the “Peoples’ House” once again. The just laws of man derive from the natural laws of God. Our rights come from God. They do not come from the Government
The first maxim of law is that it should do no harm. The intrusion of the government into our lives and families is unprecedented. We have too many laws based on emotion, hysteria, and revenue enhancement. We have too many laws generated by zealots, knee-jerk reactionaries, legal beagles, and do-gooders. Many innocent people are being harmed and devastated by bureaucrats and the legal aristocracy. The people pay for it. We must review all laws and decisions of the last 50 years to make sure that individual rights and family rights are being fully protected. Justice is a guaranteed right that should not have to be purchased.
Congress must once again become a limited, responsible, and constitutional lawgiver. Congress must also reassert its right of judicial review. It must stop abdicating its responsibility to be the People’s Lawmaker, and to be a separate but equal branch of government. It must put an end to judicial activism and judicial lawmaking. The judiciary was intended to be the weakest branch of government. It has become the most powerful, the most arrogant, the most oppressive, the most proactive, and the most tyrannical. I want to prune it back to its constitutional moorings. We have, for too long, ignored the Separation of Powers Clause.
We must end the gridlock in Washington. We have too many serious problems that must be solved. The status quo must go. We cannot afford a continuation of petty partisan politics. I believe in less government, fewer taxes, term limits, and common sense problem solving. I believe in public service, not personal enrichment. We need to get back to the concept of “citizen legislator,” or things will just get worse. I promise to serve only two terms. We have developed a professional class of career politicians who only seem to be interested in perks, politics as usual, power, pensions, and pork. I want to represent you in Washington. Please give me the chance.
FIX AMERICA FIRST
We must become energy independent soon, downsize government and make it more accountable, balance the budget, strengthen the dollar and reign in inflation, control our borders, defeat terrorism and keep Americans safe, bring the troops home as soon as possible, encourage savings, support and strengthen the family & the middle class, defend the sanctity and dignity of all human life, repair our infrastructure, put our own house in order, and keep jobs in America.
I need your financial support, your help, and your prayers. All of America has a stake in this race. Please help our great nation win in November of 2010. Let’s clean House!
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