9/12 Candidate: Dan Moadus | U.S. Congress 17th District – OH
Posted by Jacob Roecker on August 18, 2009 under 9/12 Candidates | 
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About Dan (from danmoadus.org)
Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Daniel Moadus and I am planning to soon be a candidate for the United States Congress in the 17th Congressional District here in Ohio.
I was born and raised in Girard and continue living here today. In 1965 I ended my formal education by graduating from Girard High School, and began my informal but more serious education which continues to this day. I have worked for forty-five years at over twenty different jobs and have participated in or belonged to four different Unions. I turned rolls in U.S Steel McDonald Works in McDonald, Ohio, made bricks at General Refractories in Champion, Ohio, Drove trucks for UPS in Girard, Ohio, and helped build cars at Fisher Fabricating General Motors in Lordstown, Ohio. I worked in the engineering department perfecting dies for automotive stampings at Target Stamped products in Kinsman, Ohio, sold furniture for Goldsteins Furniture in Niles, Ohio, and cars for Fred Martin Ford in Austintown, Ohio, and was a Service Manager for Gollan’s Honda in Warren, Ohio, and Slavin Ford Dodge in Hubbard, Ohio. I managed an automotive painting center for Earl Schieb in Warren, Ohio, and a Maaco painting center in Niles, Ohio (which I ended up owning) and own American Auto Painting in Warren, Ohio today. You see, there is a good chance that you already know me.
The experiences I have had and the lessons I have learned could not be found in any text book. From having my job saved by the Union at U.S. Steel to being fired for leading a wildcat strike to fight for better working conditions at Lordstown, I have seen the best and the worst that can be experienced by the working men and women in our Country.
I have gone to war in Vietnam, and missed dying by inches when I was blown out of a tank by an enemy rocket, for which I was awarded the Purple Heart, and suffered twice through the ravages of Malaria only to return to my Country to find it under siege by some of the very people holding office today.
I have served four terms as a local Councilman in Girard, winning election both as a Republican and a Democrat. I also have suffered many losses due to vigorous opposition by the public employee unions who are in the process of bankrupting every local and state government in the country.
I feel compelled to run because America is no longer the America that I remember. It has become a place where extraordinary measures are taken to erase every indication of Christianity, a place where you will be reported if you dare to pray in a public place.
It has become a place where the government has assumed unto itself powers unimagined by our founders. A place where ten thousand page bills are rushed into passage without even being read, giving hundreds of billions of dollars (that don’t even exist) to Wall Street bankers and auto companies without even knowing how the money is to be used, obligating not just our children, but their children to the impossible task of repaying it.
It is a place where the President fires CEO’s of auto companies and gives their ownership to whomever he sees fit, telling them what kind of cars he expects them to make and what kind of mileage and emission standards he expects them to achieve. It is a place where our elected officials bow to foreign leaders and offer apologies for America. Where members of Congress visit the home of Fidel Castro and come back to tell what a wonderful person he is.
America has become a place where so called “hate crimes” give people protected class status because their lives are viewed as being more valuable than yours, simply because they are gay or are pedophiles.
Where every call you make has to have a “dial one for English” function because of an unwillingness to protect our borders from millions of people who come here illegally, and refuse to learn our language or accept our American culture.
It has become a place where our legislators have relinquished their responsibilities to thousands of faceless, unaccountable bureaucrats operating hundreds of regulatory agencies who tell us exactly how we will live our lives. Where even if they dared to legislate the will of the people, judges with trumped up powers decide what is “fair” and what constitutes “justice” in their eyes instead of the Constitution’s.
Our Country has become a place with air so clean that reflected sunlight sets houses on fire and melts plastic panels on cars, yet in a never ending quest for atmospheric purity we are to be punished because our “carbon footprints” are too large. It has become a place where we have to depend on unfriendly countries for our energy because our politicians have decided that the very breaths that come out of our mouths are poison to the planet. Where a religion is made of environmental extremism with no dissention allowed and radicals celebrate the views of people who see human kind as a plague, or cancer upon the earth, and pray for the “right virus” to come along.
My biggest fear though, and what must be resisted at all cost is the effort to disarm the American people. It must be spoken, and it must be acknowledged that our Second Amendment rights were not established by our founders so that we can hunt or shoot at targets, but to protect ourselves from those who would take our freedom.
These issues and more, which seem to be spoken of and fought over less and less, need to once again be pushed to the forefront of public discourse and reaffirmed. In effect, the reset button needs to be pushed on our constitution.
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