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01-17-2008, 02:04 AM
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Teacher to run for Congress
Endicott man is third GOP hopeful for 22nd District
Grate
By Eric Reinagel
Press & Sun-Bulletin
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ENDICOTT -- During a course last year, Union-Endicott High School teacher David R. Grate often pointed out how political candidates overlooked the Constitution or reworked the document for their own needs. A prime example is Congress' involvement in a private business known as Major League Baseball, he said.
Grate said eventually all his students said to him, "If you feel so strongly about this, why aren't you running for office?"
Grate, 40, of Endicott, took up the challenge. He will run for the Republican nomination for the 22nd Congressional District spot held by longtime incumbent Democrat Maurice D. Hinchey, D-Hurley.
Grate, who is married and has a 16-year-old daughter, is the third declared candidate for the Republican spot on the ballot, joining Bruce Layman, 55, a businessman from Apalachin, and George Phillips, 31, a teacher at Seton Catholic Central High School.
Grate, who aligns himself closest to Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, received the endorsement of the Constitution Party of New York and will be seeking the Republican nomination in the September primary.
A self-described conservative, Grate said he wants to limit government intervention into Americans' lives and limit taxation. Specifically, he said he doesn't support hiking gasoline taxes.
He said he doesn't support a federal universal health care system because that has nothing do with the federal government's constitutional responsibility. The federal government does have a constitutional responsibility to provide Medicare, however, he said.
Grate said individual states, not the federal government, should be making laws about marriage and education.
Grate has posted a Web site at www.davidrgrate2008.us.
Teacher to run for Congress
Endicott man is third GOP hopeful for 22nd District
Grate
By Eric Reinagel
Press & Sun-Bulletin
Post Comment
ENDICOTT -- During a course last year, Union-Endicott High School teacher David R. Grate often pointed out how political candidates overlooked the Constitution or reworked the document for their own needs. A prime example is Congress' involvement in a private business known as Major League Baseball, he said.
Grate said eventually all his students said to him, "If you feel so strongly about this, why aren't you running for office?"
Grate, 40, of Endicott, took up the challenge. He will run for the Republican nomination for the 22nd Congressional District spot held by longtime incumbent Democrat Maurice D. Hinchey, D-Hurley.
Grate, who is married and has a 16-year-old daughter, is the third declared candidate for the Republican spot on the ballot, joining Bruce Layman, 55, a businessman from Apalachin, and George Phillips, 31, a teacher at Seton Catholic Central High School.
Grate, who aligns himself closest to Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, received the endorsement of the Constitution Party of New York and will be seeking the Republican nomination in the September primary.
A self-described conservative, Grate said he wants to limit government intervention into Americans' lives and limit taxation. Specifically, he said he doesn't support hiking gasoline taxes.
He said he doesn't support a federal universal health care system because that has nothing do with the federal government's constitutional responsibility. The federal government does have a constitutional responsibility to provide Medicare, however, he said.
Grate said individual states, not the federal government, should be making laws about marriage and education.
Grate has posted a Web site at www.davidrgrate2008.us.