Economy
As a small business owner, Steve understands how important it is to get our economy back on its feet. Small businesses are most successful when big government gets out of the way and lets the free market be free. Covid restrictions, soaring inflation, and supply chain issues are crushing small businesses. Steve’s family owns a small business and like most in the small business community this business was ravaged by the Covid 19 pandemic.
While our businesses were being locked down and jeopardized, we waited for our politicians to lift the Covid restrictions to get back to a normal working environment. Instead, the Democrats weaponized the Covid 19 pandemic to keep America down and their party in control. America has to get back to normal and be able to compete on the world stage again. As a small business owner, Steve will champion small business in the 4th District and ensure that commerce continues to flow unimpeded by government restrictions and archaic Democrat lockdowns and restrictions. Steve will push for new business opportunities and tout our Jersey shore beaches, golf courses, restaurants and amusement parks.
Healthcare
The cost of prescription drugs for Americans has been out of control for far too long. American drug companies have been selling their prescription drugs in foreign countries at a fraction of what it costs Americans. We need to bring pharmaceutical production back home to America. Government red tape funded by Big Pharma lobbyists have caused drug prices to rise and crush Americans living on a fixed income. By opening up the market and allowing smaller healthcare companies to compete we can reduce the stranglehold Big Pharma has on self regulating drug prices.
The Socialist Democrats feel that illegal immigrants and drug users should have free prescription drugs and medical care while Americans who have worked hard their entire life receive no such benefits. Steve knows this cannot be tolerated and will work to ensure prescription drugs are made readily and cheaply available to our retirees and residents of the United States over illegal aliens.
Education
The United States education system needs to be completely dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up. Almost every country in the world, including China, Russia, and India has a better educational system than ours. In order to compete on the world stage our students deserve the highest quality education. While the Democrats continue to fuel racial tensions with their critical race theory and equity agenda, our children suffer and fall behind other countries. Schools are not a social experiment; schools exist to teach our children the basic fundamentals of mathematics, language arts, history and science. Steve believes we need to identify and expel educators who teach outside the guidelines of decency and reward those teachers who concentrate on teaching core educational values.
Terms Limits
Our founding fathers never intended to have career politicians who stayed in office for decades, focused more on filling their own pockets and making lucrative deals with lobbyists. Steve fully supports Congressional term limits, because we need citizen-servants in office, not corrupt career politicians.
Steve’s opponent, Chris Smith, was sworn in to Congress in 1981, a full 41 years ago. Smith is a Democrat who changed his party affiliation to Republican for the purpose of winning the District 4 election in 1980. Over the last 41 years, Smith has voted against President Trump and GOP policies at least 50 percent of the time and he is more likely to vote with the Democrats than Republicans. He voted with the Democrats on the massive 1.2 trillion-dollar infrastructure bill. The voting public knew the bulk of this bill was loaded with socialist spending programs that have little to do with infrastructure, but instead was just a boated “green new deal” style catastrophe. Smith has been sitting on the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee for years while he permits illegal aliens to cross our borders from almost every country in the world. He has let us down on foreign policy in Afghanistan, China, Russia and Iran. Smith is a Republican in Name Only (RINO) Congressman and needs to go.
National Debt
Our national debt is out of control; government spending and a constant Federal budget deficit are unsustainable. Steve will not allow for the national debt ceiling to be raised again until Congress gets spending under control with a clear cut bill for reducing the deficit. Congress MUST stop spending on frivolous and wasteful projects both here and in foreign countries. America recently gave $308 million to Afghanistan AFTER the Taliban took control of over $80 million worth of American military equipment. Most Americans see this as wasteful spending. The $308 million going to the Taliban is more money than New Jersey is slated to get in the first of five rounds from Biden’s green new deal-style Infrastructure bill. Steve understands the gravity of our debt crisis, and will not allow the can to be continually kicked down the road with out of control spending and fiscal irresponsibility.
Supporting Military & Veterans
Steve understands the invaluable service we receive from our military and our veterans. Democrats and RINOs have exploited our veterans’ sacrifices and leveraged government support for their vote for too long. It’s time that we give our brave heroes the support they deserve. As the son of a United States Navy veteran, Steve knows our military servicemen and servicewomen deserve higher pay, better healthcare, top notch mental healthcare, and more programs to help our Vets transition into civilian life once their time in the service comes to an end.
While Steve believes American diplomacy is best served by peace through strength this doesn’t mean we should engage in foolish wars which put our brave men and women at risk. We must maintain our military superiority and be able to project strength beyond our shores without engaging in never-ending conflicts in foreign nations.
Moreover, Steve is committed to making sure that members of Congress don’t get rich off the backs of private military companies who benefit from the U.S. constantly being at war. We need to regulate Congressional members’ investment in major military industrial complex companies like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman. Steve will never let our military or our military veterans down and will always stand with these patriotic heroes.
Crime & Law Enforcement
Steve spent 32 years in law enforcement, over two decades of which he was in the FBI, and retired because he saw that the Bureau was becoming a politicized arm of the radical left and entrenched Washington elites. Rather than stand idly by and let the Democratic Socialists “soft on crime” agenda destroy our nation he decided to do something about it by running for office. The Democrats push to “defund the police” and soften punishments for criminals like murderers, rapists, and child molesters is sickening; Steve won’t stand for it. Once he gets to Washington he’ll back our law enforcement with legislation that has teeth. Steve will also push for an overhaul of federal agencies, like the FBI, that are run by the political cronies of Washington insiders. Law enforcement should protect American citizens, not investigate the Left’s political opponents and turn a blind eye to Democratic criminals like Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton.
Our Federal, State and Local law enforcement officers are the thin blue line which protects our citizens from evil every day. Steve has stood with his brothers and sisters to fight crime at all levels of government. However, our Law Enforcement is under attack by the Democratic Socialists and RINOs who believe criminals should have more rights than victims and officers. The police have been unfairly scrutinized, attacked, and harassed by the dishonest mainstream media. Steve will not allow for the Democrats to implement their plan nor will he permit qualified immunity to be stripped from our law enforcement. Steve stands with our law enforcement and completely backs and endorses these brave individuals.
Illegal Immigration
Steve knows we need to secure our southern border. In the next three years more than 15 million more illegal aliens are expected to cross into the United States. These illegal aliens eventually land in our small towns overwhelming the school districts, raising property taxes, and draining resources. The influx of illegals adds to homelessness, increased drug trade and other criminal activity in American cities and towns. President Trump’s immigration record and policies curbed the flow of illegals into the United States. Steve will continue supporting President Trump’s immigration policies and end the trend of uninhibited illegal immigration into our nation. Steve will ensure the southern border wall is completed and pressure Mexican authorities to stop human traffickers on their side of the border.
Election Integrity
Steve believes free and fair elections are a fundamental American right guaranteed under the US Constitution. The radical left is constantly attempting to change voting laws to favor the left whenever possible. Leftists push for voting by mail, ballot harvesting, no voter ID, and allowing illegal immigrants (and permanent residents who are not citizens) to vote. These policies will ruin the legitimacy of our electoral system which is already far too vulnerable. More than 80 percent of Americans believe in a voter identification system; when in Congress, Steve will support legislation requiring picture voter ID. Election volunteers aren’t qualified to determine whether a voter’s signature is valid; only a valid photo ID can do that. Steve will push for strong and enforceable election laws to stop voter fraud. He is committed to enacting these laws and pressing the DOJ and FBI to investigate all allegations of voter fraud and intimidation for each and every election cycle.
Right to LIfe
Steve strongly opposes abortion. Steve will always take a stand and defend the unborn. The Democratic Socialists have made abortion a multimillion dollar business in America through tax payer funded grants, giving Planned Parenthood more than 500 million dollars annually with little to no oversight. New Jersey now follows states like Oregon, Vermont, Colorado and New Mexico as safe havens that permit late term abortion with NO state imposed thresholds. This is appalling and criminal. Steve will continue to be outspoken regarding this egregious New Jersey law and will work in Congress to restrict states from being abortion sanctuaries.
Chinese Communist Party
Steve understands that the Chinese Communist Party is the single biggest threat to the United States. China is hell bent on being the dominant global power and replacing America as the world leader. China’s global economic rise directly challenges American interests. We need Congressmen in office who aren’t afraid to go toe-to-toe with Xi Jinping to maintain American economic superiority. Through Steve’s FBI career he has seen how the Chinese “compete” on the world stage; they undercut American businesses by stealing trade secrets, committing corporate espionage, cyber warfare and regularly infringe on American patents in nearly every sphere of business. Our country can’t stand for this any longer. Just like President Trump was tough on China, Steve vows to take on the Chinese head-on.
Moreover, China has committed unprecedented human rights violations for decades and is only ramping up their subjugation of political and ethnic minorities in recent years. We have seen firsthand China’s policies crush Hong Kong and it’s clear Taiwan is next on their list. China has committed human rights violations against the Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs and Kyrgyz. China also is the largest producer of fentanyl which they are purposefully and cheaply supplying to cartels at our southern border in an attempt to exacerbate the opioid crisis in the United States. We can’t allow Washington weaklings to bend the knee to China any longer. Steve’s work in the FBI will bring valuable experience to Washington and a renewed resolve to curb China’s attacks on our way of life.
Trangendered Athletes
Steve and his wife have two daughters, Erin and Jillian. As the father of two top notch female athletes Steve is committed to ensuring female athletes like his daughters don’t have their years of hard work ripped away by transgender men who want to compete in women’s sports. He also understands the dangers of allowing biological males to compete in girl sports. Transgendered athletes’ competing in female sports both psychologically and physiologically harms our female athletes. It seems politicians are more concerned about being “politically correct” than showing the courage to do what is right. Steve will fight for laws that protect our children and permit our girls and women to compete in sports fairly and maintain their dignity.
Breaking up the Big Tech MOnopolies
Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon, Apple and several other big tech companies have been committing egregious acts upon the citizens of the United States for far too long. Steve will work to repeal Section 230 of the Telecommunications Act which provides Tech Giants immunity when acting in “good faith” to remove content from their platforms. Big Tech and Silicon Valley elites are not the arbiters of free speech and it's about time Washington made them realize that. These leftists have banned, shadow banned, and removed conservative content and individuals who disagree with their out of touch leftist ideology. Steve will work to end Big Tech’s “good faith” shield and hold them accountable for stifling conservative voices on their platforms.
We’ve all seen the stories about Big Tech eavesdropping on our private conversations, electronic surveilling of our cell phones, and mining our personal data. When in Congress, Steve won’t stand idly by and allow Big Tech to claim plausible deniability. We need to investigate Big Tech’s massive donations to Democrat elected officials and Liberal Political Action Committees (PACs) to cover up their impropriety. On day one of office, Steve will act to repeal and replace Section 230 with a sound law fit for today’s society.
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