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We've had enough of
professional politicians who
know nothing about what we
"little people" need and want.
We need citizen legislators in Congress who trust the People to do what is just and good without the federal government dictating our every action. |
I grew up in Rockland County, New York as a working class suburban jock. My dad was a vocational high school teacher in the South Bronx, and he ran a small construction company. My mom sold collectibles out of our house. Like many of the people in this district, my parents struggled to feed their kids, and to keep a decent roof over our heads. I never had a trust fund or a family inheritance. I didn't go to prep school, and I never dined with presidents. When I was 9 years old, I started working with my dad on construction jobs.  I always got stuck unloading bags of cement, taping up plastic sheeting and of course, taking the coffee order for the whole crew. My dad taught me to wire electrical outlets and breaker panels before I was 12. At 16, I was commuting into Manhattan by myself at night to work as a stagehand on off-Broadway shows.I paid my way through the State University of New York working as a stagehand, flipping burgers and tending bar. My foot was crushed by a fire truck when I was a volunteer fireman, and I spent much of my freshman year on crutches. To earn a living, I have driven trucks, dug ditches, installed insulation, built buildings, and worked in television production. I carry the scars of my work history with pride.  For most of my adult life, I have paid for my own individual health insurance. In the early 1990s, after New York State instituted its one-size-fits-all Community Rating law, the premium my wife and I paid for health insurance more than tripled. Rather than pay the inflated insurance premium, we rented a truck and headed north to Connecticut. We were certainly not the only young, healthy and productive workers who were forced to flee New York's government-imposed health insurance mandates for the more reasonable laws of Connecticut. That memory resurfaced with a vengeance during the recent national health care debate. Regrettably, when the federal government controls health insurance nationwide, there will be no place left to run.  When the government squeezes you, it squeezes me. When it restricts your freedoms, it restricts mine. When it prints and spends sums of money beyond anyone's wildest imagination, my kids' future opportunities are squashed with yours. And in November, when we straighten out this county's priorities in favor of giving people the freedom to create private sector jobs, opportunity and wealth, my family will prosper right along with yours. 
We are in this together, for better or worse. Together we can make it better. I'm going up against Joe Courtney and a Congress that is hellbent on controlling every aspect of our lives. I need your help to stop them. |
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Paid for by: Doug Dubitsky for Congress, Andrew Rosenberg Treasurer Doug Dubitsky For Congress PO Box 9460 Bolton, CT 06043 |