Gabriel Gomez for United States Senate

We support Gabriel Gomez for United States Senate. Gabriel Gomez is the Republican candidate running for the United States Senate winning a three way primary election besting Michael Sullivan and Dan Winslow. Any of these three candidates would have been an excellent choice to run in the general election and we were lucky to have such a strong group vying for the endorsement. 

I have the highest respect for Michael Sullivan and Dan Winslow, and having spent some time with Gabriel Gomez I can tell you he is an outstanding person who will run a great campaign and he can win this election. His resume is filled with real accomplishments, and that alone would make him a formidable candidate, but he is a decent and honest person as well, and it comes through when you meet him.  A first generation immigrant who didn’t learn English until entering Kindergarten, Gabriel went on to attend the Naval Academy and become a pilot landing planes on aircraft carriers. He then became a Navy Seal and later attended Harvard after leaving the military. Following a successful business career he has decided to enter politics because like many people he believes the system in Washington is broken and unresponsive to the real needs of people.

Gabriel lives in Cohasset with his wife Sarah and their four children. He is active in the community coaching baseball and softball and has served as a volunteer on a number of town committees. He is President of the Navy Seal Foundation of New England. 

I believe Gabriel Gomez has his priorities straight and that is critical because while other issues are important the most glaring problem facing Americans is the lack of opportunity that is a result of the bad economy. We keep reading that things are getting better but we never meet anyone who actually says their lives are better. People are worried and they fear things will only get worse once Obama Care takes full effect. And they are right to worry because as we are finally hearing even Democrats believe the bill is  flawed, perhaps fatally, and will cause great harm not only to those seeking health care but to the economy as well.

We need to gain control of the debate and set the agenda instead of constantly reacting to the Democrats and the media who have done a great job deflecting our attention away from the terrible economy and on to issues that divide the American people. We have millions of people who have given up on ever getting a job and millions still seeking work, and when you add them up unemployment approaches 14%! Yet there is no news about it no stories on television about poor and homeless people and nothing of the despair caused by the reckless policies of Washington that have caused this mess. 

In fact, it seems about the only time you read anything related to business the story is about government making new laws to control businesses because they are evil. We have had an inexplicable incessant attack on Capitalism for many years now and we are seeing the results in a weak economy and an inexcusably high unemployment rate. People have lost confidence in Washington, and rightly so, but you would never know it has anything to do with the bad economy their policies have caused. The Democrats must have an enemy and they have chosen Capitalism and achievers and they won’t stop their attacks because it is all they have. And because the economy is terrible their message resonates as they look to blame anyone other than the people in Washington who have actually caused the mortgage crisis that crippled the economy. When a company makes a mistake it hurts some people and that is sad, but when a government causes a catastrophe like they did with the mortgage crisis it hurts millions worldwide. Is there a better reason to limit their power over us?

We need Gabriel Gomez in Washington because he understands what it will take to get the economy moving and a healthy economy is the best argument we can make as Republicans to put an end to the class warfare argument put forth by Democrats and the media. We are told the lie that this is the “new normal.” We must accept higher unemployment and a poor economy not to mention huge spikes in the cost of food, heating oil and gasoline and for what? Is it so we can finance even larger government? I don’t believe saying something as silly as “this is the new normal” excuses the people in Washington from making things right, but they do. I never thought we would ever reach the point as Americans when we would turn a blind eye to the suffering caused by the politicians in Washington, but it seems that we have, and that is astounding. It is like we have accepted it as something inevitable and we can’t do anything about it because it is all too complicated so let people live without hope because well, “it is the new normal.” 

I trust Gabriel Gomez to help get us back to the old normal where people had jobs and opportunity and the dollar was strong so food prices and fuel were much cheaper. He understands that for government to keep spending money we don’t have on programs that don’t work is not sustainable and growing the government does not grow the economy. Creating the conditions that encourage business growth will help a great deal and Gabriel Gomez knows how to get that done.

Please support Gabriel Gomez for United States Senate because he will work to help solve our most important problem — improving the economy. An expanding economy will grow jobs and opportunity and restore confidence. He believes in private enterprise and understands how important it is to create jobs. We cannot accept the “new normal.”  Support Gabriel Gomez.

To learn how you can help support Gabriel go tot his website; www.gomezforma.com

Vincent Cogliano Jr.
Chair, Plymouth County GOP