David Larsen for Congress

My name is David Larsen and I am running for Congress for the same reason most Americans are now active in local, state and national politics: Barack Obama, the Democrats and liberal Republicans like Leonard Lance are destroying this country and I will not stand by and let it happen. I love our country, revere our Constitution and want to ensure that my children have the same opportunity to enjoy liberty and prosperity that I did.

I'm not what anyone would call a typical politician: though this election is my second foray into the political world. For all my adult life, I've been busy building and creating things as a successful small businessman in the private sector.

I was born in Brooklyn, New York; my parents are Norwegian immigrants who came to America after the liberation of Norway from the Nazis in World War II. My dad founded Larsen Windows & Doors, a small manufacturing business that gave me my first taste of the work world and imbued me with a powerful work ethic.

After briefly attending college Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri, I returned to New York City to attend the College of Staten Island where I majored in biology and business administration. During this time, I founded my own construction and home improvement company, which I sold six years later to take over the rapidly growing family business. Over the next three decades I oversaw the growth of the company my father started into a successful business that was instumental in helping to employ hundreds of people.

As Larsen Windows & Doors continued to thrive, I moved to New Jersey 15 years ago and settled in Tewksbury where I currently reside with my wife Donna and our three daughters. There I run a farm where I raise American quarter horses.

When people ask me what motivated me to enter politics, I tell them that I've been an entrepreneur and businessman all my life and never thought about running for office until lately. Government is getting out of control: there are too many bureaucrats, too much regulation, way too much spending and spiraling taxes are going to crush the middle class out of existence.

Congress has become deaf to the voice of the people they represent; I can no longer sit on the sidelines and watch Democrats AND liberal Republicans drive this nation into bankruptcy. I decided that, instead of just talking about how bad things are getting, I would actually do something about it. That’s why I decided to run for Congress and why I oppose Leonard Lance – a third generation career politician who claims to be a Republican but votes like he’s a Democrat. The people of New Jersey and America deserve better than this.

I am not a Harvard MBA or lawyer, and I never worked for a big Wall Street firm. I have no ties and owe no favors to big business, so I have no political obligations – nor do I want them. I am obviously not a career politician.

I believe, like the Founding Fathers, that Congress should be made up of citizen legislators – ordinary people who serve their fellow Americans for a brief period of time before returning to private life – not career politicians whose livelihood is based on perpetual re-election to office.

As a Congressman, I will do everything in my power to help Restore The American Dream and our nation to the greatness it worked so hard to achieve. President Ronald Reagan once said that America is the last, best hope of mankind on earth – and I intend to ensure that Mr. Reagan’s legacy of liberty and prosperity will not be forgotten.

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