ANOTHER EXCITING CANDIDATE -- DR. STUART SPITZER TO REPLACE GOODEN -- 10.7.11

Texas voters have another exciting candidate to support on March 6, 2012 in the Texas primaries. 

 

Dr. Stuart Spitzer has decided to run against Tex. Rep. Lance Gooden (Henderson and Kaufman Counties). 

Gooden is a left-leaning moderate who has proved it by scoring only a 44% on the Texas Eagle Forum scorecard based on the last legislative session – 82nd.  

 

Please read Jan Shedd’s first-hand comments posted below and then learn more about Dr. Spitzer from the excerpts taken from his website. 

Dr. Spitzer is the “real thing.”  He is an authentic conservative who lives by what he says.   

 

Donna Garner

Wgarner1@hot.rr.com

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From: janshedd@embarqmail.com [mailto:janshedd@embarqmail.com]

Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 10:55 AM
Subject: Dr. Stuart Spitzer-Spread the Word

 

Patriots,

 

I am absolutely thrilled to tell all of you that we have a candidate running against TX State Rep Lance Gooden in the Republican primary.  His name is Stuart Spitzer.  Stuart is the right person, at the right time, running for the right reasons.  He will not go to Austin to play the politics-as-usual, line-my-pockets game that the Texas legislature is currently drowning in. He's not a politician-he's one of us!  Really.  He is willing to set aside a successful medical practice and go to Austin, out of concern and alarm over what he sees happening to his country, and in his state.  He does not take this lightly.  He has thought and prayed about this for years.  What a contrast between our current representative and Stuart!  The choice is crystal clear.

 

 

Stuart will be attacked by the Joe Straus machine, and outspent at least 3 to one.  They have the money, but we have the votes.  Nevertheless, money matters. He will not prevail in the primary race unless we get behind him and do the work it's going to take to get him elected.  This is where you come in. We need volunteers to contribute their time and money.  If you have never worked in a campaign before, there has never been a better time or candidate.  Don't let it scare you.  It's fun and for the best of causes.  You will not be expected to do anything you aren't comfortable with, and you will always have someone else with you.  I hope that over the next couple of months, I am inundated with calls and emails from the people of Kaufman County, wanting to get involved.  Complaining will not clean up the Texas House.  Hard work will.  Forward this to your friends and family. If you are interested, or think you might be, give me a call!!!!!!

 

 

jan

972-932-7575

 

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http://stuartspitzer.com/?page_id=11

I was born in Athens, Texas and my parents still live there. I lived there for the first 19 years of my life. I am a graduate of Athens High School and Trinity Valley Community College.  I have a Bachelors Degree from Baylor and a Medical Doctor Degree from UT southwestern Medical School in Dallas.

I am married with two children.  Shari, my wife of 15 years, and I met and married during residency.  She is also a physician, but is currently working as a wife, mom, and teacher both in our church and home schooling our two children.  Lilly (age 11), Luke (age 9), and I (age 44) are blessed to have such a great mom and wife.

My mother, father and the good people of Henderson County taught me much in my childhood and youth.  My friends and I had the run of the neighborhood on our bikes until the streetlights came on.  If I was in trouble at school or church, I was in trouble at home.  I worked mowing baseball fields during the day and umpiring softball games at night.  Late summers I would help my grandfather plow black dirt cotton fields and hunt and fish on his ranch in Central Texas.  From this upbringing, I learned respect for God, the outdoors, others, and a hard day’s work.

After twelve years of college, medical school, and residency, Shari and I returned to Athens and I practiced surgery there for six years.  We had our two children there and invested our time and values in the lives of several youth who are now adults and having their own families.  We moved to Kaufman over six years ago mostly so I could have more time to spend with my family.  It is still a struggle to find time for work, kids, church and all the busyness of life, but life is good.

The people of District of 4 have been my mentors and friends.  We share the same hopes and dreams for ourselves and our children.  Most want to preserve the good life we have.  We want strong community where hard work, respect and character are valued.  I have tried to live my life as a servant and place others first.  These are my values, these are our values, and I want to take these values to Austin.

“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”  Martin Luther King, Jr.

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http://stuartspitzer.com/

I have lived and worked in District 4 for the past 13 years. I have been a coach, Sunday school teacher, school mentor, referee, land owner, employer, dad, husband, deacon, and physician.  I have never taken a dime of special interest money.   How many current office holders can say all of this?  My values are your values.

I would be humbled and honored to have your vote to be your representative in Austin.

Representative is defined as “One that serves as an example or type for others of the same classification.”   Farlex online dictionary

I am running for state representative because I believe in the people of District 4. They are fine and hard-working citizens, and I am proud to be one of them.  We get to vote. We get to elect our officials. “We the people” –not Washington, not Austin, not corporations, not labor unions, and not lobbyists.

I believe there are two competing ideologies in play. One would debate the role of family, the rights of the unborn, the merits of gambling, and even whether absolute truth exists. This worldview says that if we can’t all get over the bar, we need to lower the bar. I think we need to raise the bar.

The second ideology is the one I believe; it states that there is truth, and we should seek it. Abortion is wrong. Gambling is a cancer and destroys community. The family unit of mom, dad, and children is the best way to rear children.  It may not always be “reality”, but it is best and we should not lower the bar just to get everyone over it. 

I would rather try my whole life for a bar set too high and fail, than walk over a low bar into a pool with the sediment of all, but the virtue of none.

These are the values I learned in Henderson and Kaufman counties.  These are the values I hope to take to Austin to represent and serve District 4.