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Chicago, IL, June 24, 2010– Long time transparency and pro-liberty advocate Candidate for U.S. Congress from Illinois’ 5th Congressional District, David Ratowitz supports the Supreme Court’s decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago.

“I applaud the Supreme Court’s principled defense of Liberty and recognition that rights of law abiding citizens should be at least equal to those the rights of predatory criminals.  I urge the Chicago City Council to refrain from plans to use back door methods to re-institute the gun ban and do indirectly what the Supreme Court has just ruled cannot be done directly”, said Ratowitz this morning from his Chicago office.

David Ratowitz, Republican Candidate for Illinois' 5th Congressional seat, demands accountability from Democrats in Congress for their failure to safeguard the Gulf Coast

U. S. Congressional Candidate, David Ratowitz (IL - 5), claims "Democrats in Congress have spent the last four years rehashing lost political fights of the past instead of governing 21st Century America. We have the capability to contain and minimize damage from an oil spill, Democrat failures to realistically address America's energy policy are the cause of the current oil spill calamity."

Chicago, IL, March 12, 2010 - Long time transparency and pro-liberty advocate Candidate for U. S. Congress from Illinois' 5th Congressional District, David Ratowitz demands accountability from Congressional leaders.

OIL SPILLS...INTO CONGRESS

An explosion on an offshore oil rig results in a catastrophic oil leak into the Gulf of Mexico threatens billions of dollars of fishing, tourism and agriculture along the Gulf Coast, a region still reeling from Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma. The advocates of big government now in power respond by vigorously doing...nothing. Democrat party leaders, swept into power on the waves of outrage over inadequate government response to a Gulf Coast tragedy , have spent four years rehashing political battles lost in the 1980's and settling scores from twenty years ago, and have still not taken up the business of governing 21st Century America. It is May, 2010 and the Democrats have injected big government into all aspects of our lives and economy - except where it might actually belong.

As a Chicagoan who spent eight years living in New Orleans, LA and who endured Hurricane Katrina and the lengthy and difficult recovery from that disaster, I have a deep appreciation for the role the Gulf Coast plays in the American economy. The fisheries, beaches, ports, and oil rigs along the Gulf Coast are crucial to America's economic health, food supply, infrastructure, and energy security. Four years after using a threat to the Gulf Coast to return to power, the Democrats have provided no solutions for these problems.

Many will revert to the old arguments: there must be either civilization or the environment and we must ban offshore drilling. This self-defeating argument creates false dichotomies between one industry and another, and between job security and environmental security. These arguments ignore existing technology and best practices that, if utilized, would allow the safe harvest of the vast petroleum resources off our Nations' shores, ensure American energy security and safeguard those coastal zones critical to our national economy.

Many others will call for renewed public investment into speculative technologies that have not yet proven capable of producing cost effective energy. While many of these technologies show promise, recent history has proven that public finance of "green energy" follows the traditional model of government spending: cronyism and waste. America must develop the capability to safely harvest the energy we have to provide time for these new energy technologies to evolve in economically viable forms.

Fortunately, there is a solution. We can ensure the safe harvest of our offshore oil resources if our federal government does two things: 1) equip the United States Coast Guard with the ability to rapidly respond to offshore oil leaks; and 2) enforce personal property, specifically the obligation of property owners, such as British Petroleum, to use their property in a responsible manner that does not infringe on the property rights of others.

The United States Congress has a constitutional duty to protect our shores and regulate maritime trade. The technology and techniques exist to address oil leaks such as the one currently in the Gulf. All that is required is responsible Congressional leadership willing to focus proactively on our nation's energy needs and allocate resources to equip and train the U. S. Coast Guard, an organization that exists for this very purpose, to respond to these crises.

The owners and operators of offshore oil rigs must be held accountable for their failure to operate safely. This is no different than the owner of any other business or property. Congress has exclusive authority over maritime matters and the failure to have addressed this foreseeable disaster is a failure of our current Congressional leadership.

Four years ago the current leadership in Congress won their majority by campaigning on the need to pay attention to the critical region along America's Gulf Coast. For four years the Congressional leadership has refought battles they lost in the past instead of focusing on the problems of 21st Century America. Today, their failure is costing the Gulf Coast region dearly. Tomorrow those costs will travel up the Mississippi and become ours to bear.

I say again, it is time for new leadership in Washington, DC.

David Ratowitz, Republican Candidate for Illinois' 5th Congressional seat, demands to know: where does Mike Quigley (D IL-5) stand on taxing retirement savings?

U. S. Congressional Candidate, David Ratowitz (IL - 5), wants to know: "where does Mike Quigley stand on taxing retirement savings? Just this week, Democrats in Congress said they wanted to tax IRA and 401(k) retirement accounts. Obviously, Mike Quigley doesn't care about us, otherwise he would oppose tax increases that target our retirement savings and destroy jobs in the District."

Chicago, IL, March 12, 2010 - Long time transparency and pro-liberty advocate Candidate for U. S. Congress from Illinois' 5th Congressional District, David Ratowitz demands answers from Congressman, Mike Quigley (D -IL 5) regarding his view on a Democratic proposal made earlier this week to tax IRA and 401(k) savings accounts.

"Most Americans have relied on the tax advantaged savings of IRA and 401(k) accounts to save for their own retirement and protect themselves from a failing social security system. Democrats in Congress have no plan to save social security and no plan to balance the federal budget, and now they want to attack our ability to protect ourselves from their failures." Ratowitz said today from his Chicago office.

"Unfortunately, we in the 5th District cannot take for granted that our own Congressman will advocate for us. In the past, Quigley has sided against our interests whenever it benefited him personally. For instance, Quigley has accepted large contributions from the Federal Employee's Union and voted for their benefits at our expense; Quigley accepted contributions from out of district liquor distributers and introduced a bill that protects their monopoly and restricts our freedom of choice as consumers and harms the brewers, restaurants and other small businesses in the District." said Ratowitz.

"Mike Quigley is supposed to be our Congressman and he needs to take a stand as our advocate. Will Quigley protect our savings, or is he on the side of the extremists in his own party who believe that saving our own money to take care of ourselves in retirement is a "tax entitlement"; and that the government should plunder our IRA and 401(k) accounts to avoid fiscal responsibility?" Ratowitz said.

On April 26th, Rep Jan Schakowsky, (D-IL) a senior Democratic member of the White House fiscal commission stated that reducing or eliminating "tax entitlements" were on the table. Schakowsky's office confirmed that "tax entitlements" referred to exemptions aimed at helping people save for retirement, such as IRA and 401(k) accounts.

"A government that breaks its promises whenever it doesn't feel like acting responsibly is a tyranny and not a government of, by and for The People," said Ratowitz.

Even though the District has a tendency to produce the type of Democrats that Republicans love to hate, Ratowitz is optimistic about his chances -- pointing out that Cook County Board Commissioner Candidate Tony Peraica carried 56 percent of the vote within his district in 2006.  "The strength of the machine has been its ability to hand out jobs. But in the last couple years there have been indictments...  Aldermen aren't able to deliver patronage jobs and as a result the muscle of the machine isn't there" Ratowitz told TAS

Read the full article here.

Chicago, IL (Vocus) March 16, 2010 -- Long time transparency and pro-liberty advocate Candidate for U. S. Congress from Illinois' 5th Congressional District, David Ratowitz questions the sincerity of Congressman, Mike Quigley (D -IL 5) for introducing a 'Sense of the House' resolution on fiscal discipline 6 days after introducing a bill to increase government spending for bird safety.

"Mike Quigley has among the worst records in Congress for supporting big government spending projects. Quigley has consistently supported the largest increase in the federal deficit in American history," Ratowitz said today from his Chicago office.

View the full press release here.