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Paul Foreman Democrat for Congress 10th District Serving Austin to Houston |
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BIOGRAPHY
Paul
Foreman was born and raised in Hood County Texas on the upper Brazos River
just southwest from Fort Worth, Texas. On his father's side, he is a sixth
generation Texan.
Once
out of the service, and as his father had died, he worked four years as a
Los Angeles policeman from 1965 through 1968.
Paul's novels include SUGARLAND,
a story of Texas prisons; QUANAH, a historical novel of Quanah Parker; and
four books of poetry. Paul is running as "a Sam Rayburn democrat"
demonstrating that he is on the side of all the people, and not a privileged
few. Paul will oppose the corruption rampant in modern politics that is
typified by Tom DeLay and Mike McCaul
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 Foreman Family - Paul Foreman, Wilford, Foster, and Moira Email Paul at rocksandwords@yahoo.comIssues:The major issues confronting the American people in general and Texans in particular include: 1. The war in Iraq must come to an end. As Texan James Baker noted, "it is a war of choice, not of necessity". The American people are already choosing to end it, in the absence of any clear policy by the Bush regime. I support Congressman John Murtha's "deadline" of six months and withdrawal to Kuwait. As Cindy Sheehan's eloquent testimony makes clear, we must not keep losing our soldiers and marines to a war we should never have waged in the first place. 2. We must balance the federal budget as Bill Clinton and Al Gore did in the '90s with the help of Richard Rubin and Alan Greenspan. As my older brother, Noel, used to say, "if your outgo exceeds your income, your upkeep will be your downfall", as true for households, as for nations. The politics of greed, as illustrated by Dennis Hastert and Tom DeLay, and lobbyists like Michael Scanlon and Jack Abramoff, and corporate plundering like ENRON, will be the ruin of this country if allowed to go unchecked. 3. We must restore integrity to the voting process. The question of the Supreme Court illegally deciding the 2000 election, and the electronic voting irregularities in Ohio and Florida in 2004 requires a cleaning out of the stables in Washington. 4. We must stop the hemorrhaging of jobs being outsourced overseas. Microsoft could not be doing this if they had been busted up as the unlawful trust they are. Walmart should have to pay a clear tariff on all their Chinese manufactured textiles, where they cannot destroy the American textile industry, and pay a living wage to their employees. 5. All citizens should have equal protection of the laws. That means civil unions, as Howard Dean and the state of Vermont has shown the way. 6. A clearer wall of separation between church and state must be erected in keeping with the US Constitution. The so-called religious right has very little true religion; to paraphrase Shakespeare, their scholars have little English and less Greek, and are not to be trusted even with sacred scripture, much less the Constitution. The reductio ad absurdum of their effort to interfere in private lives of citizens was the Terry Schiavo case, in which even the Supreme Court declared Tom DeLay and his minions had no standing. 7. The lobbying and power of large corporation finances of our political system must stop. As Robert Burns long ago said, "a man's a man for a that". As Fred Harris said in his book, The New Populism, which I published, quoting Oliver Goldsmith in THE DESERTED VILLAGE, "Ill fares the land and hastening ills' a prey where wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes and powers may flourish or may fade; a breath can take them as a breath hath made. But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, when once destroyed, can never be supplied."
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Statement of PurposeI believe that democracy means to respect all votes of each individual voter. The franchise must be protected. According to the General Accounting Office report, there is a tremendous problem with the electronic voting machines. I will push to return to the hand-marked ballot, which leaves a paper trail, and can be monitored by all the citizens. My office will be open to the rich and the poor. I will try to answer all correspondence and contacts, as Lloyd Doggett has been exemplary in doing. I believe with Lincoln that our government is of the people, by the people, and for the people, and not for the wealthiest 1 or 2% of the people. My motto is "WISDOM, NOT WEALTH, SHOULD RULE THE HALLS OF CONGRESS"
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