Vince Coakley Announces Candidacy for the US House of Representatives
Vince Coakley joined over 30 supporters who braved the snowy weather to attend a special announcement at the Dilworth Neighborhood Grille on January 28. This was the final stop in a 6 stop tour where after months of speculation, Coakley made it known he was, in fact, running for Congress from the 12th District of North Carolina.
With the characteristic good humor for which he is known, North Carolina broadcaster Vince Coakley says he went out and bought a pair of padded boxing gloves because he knows he’ll need them during this fall’s election campaign in the 12th Congressional District.
“Election campaigns are the precise point where diametrically opposed ideas clash and bang against each other,” Coakley said. “And because it is that clashing and banging of competing ideas that makes for a vibrant nation, as a candidate, I’m looking forward to challenging not just the status quo in Washington, but my political opponents who keep thinking that the policies which have never worked in the past are somehow supposed to find traction and start working tomorrow.”
“Albert Einstein once said it is insane to keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting that there will be a different result or outcome. Yet that is exactly what’s been going on in Washington for years,” Coakley said.
“It explains why our economic troubles are ongoing, why taxpayers are being crippled by government debt and the massive interest payments we are forced to make because of that debt, and why key elements of the business community are coming under so much pressure and regulation that they can’t effectively create the jobs we all know we need.”
Forty-eight year old Coakley, who for many years was a well-known TV newsman in the state, said during his 6 county rolling announcement tour that the many people in the 12th District who are underemployed and unemployed is clearly a pressing issue. He also said that wherever possible, he will seek and support solutions that arise from cultivating family and community assets.
“In some cases, the solution for a problem being faced in the 12th District, or in any of North Carolina’s Congressional Districts, is several hundred miles up the road in Washington. In other instances, the solution we seek is in our own hands,” Coakley said. “I want to help empower the people of the 12th District and work with you to rebuild our families and communities. Then, together, we can reshape Washington and bring it back under the control of WE THE PEOPLE.”
Here is the video from the announcement.
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