Mike Sullivan has the Experience and Expertise to Fight Terror and Grow the Economy

The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston as Moses, left lifelong impressions on me since my fourth grade class was bused into Boston from Watertown to see the movie in glorious Technicolor and Panavision. Fast forward to an egregious TV clip now running, showing the dignified actor being portrayed negatively in a Markey ad for Senate, holding a rifle aloft as NRA president. The now deceased spokesman for our Constitutional Rights should be allowed to rest in peace having stood for time-honored values of liberty and the Right to Bear Arms to protect ourselves and our families.

Progressives like Markey have been busily moving the boundaries of personal liberty for decades and he himself has morphed from a social conservative to an ultra-liberal during his 36 years in office.  Though Markey came from Malden and his 5^th Congressional office sits in Medford Square he is out of touch with those he represents, promoting harmful legislation to business and our economy such as the Waxman-Markey Bill (Cap & Trade) from the D.C. area where he is a long time resident.

Intrusive government is Markey’s trademark and now he wants to take away our right to bear arms using the cruel deaths of the Sandy Hook Elementary students to stir up fear of guns and legal gun users rather than to recognize that it is a mental illness problem that caused the shooter rampages we have seen in recent times. How about violence in movies and video games? Are they not also to blame for the shooter’s bloody rampage? Should we not ban them from every home by the same logic?

The misplaced blame of guns for the violence is calculated to concentrate power, centralize government and deflect attention to the real problem... the failures of the current administration.

A viable contender for the Senate seat vacated by John Kerry who gathered 30,000 signatures in just two weeks is showing a grass roots groundswell. Former U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan and his wife Terri recently visited the Medford Tea Party’s monthly meeting at Firehouse No. 5’s community room. He introduced himself, a resident of Abington, who worked his way up at Gillette while receiving his Boston College education. In 1989 he ran for State Rep winning 3 terms, then in ’96 served as District Attorney for Plymouth County and after 9/11 became U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts serving in Washington and later in the Bureau for Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.  He is no stranger to Washington and has withstood its pressures to conform.

Sullivan has entered the race seeing the national debt as the greatest threat to national security. He is a fiscal conservative who has prosecuted terrorists. He also wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) seeing it is neither affordable for America nor capable of providing access to the quality of medical care we have already known. Costs will skyrocket while access diminishes as fewer people enter the cumbersome and over regulated medical profession. He doesn’t like bills people can’t understand, noting that the regulations have swelled to a stack of pages taller than a man requiring an expensive army of bureaucrats to administrate.

Sullivan’s core values have not changed over his years of public service. He believes a person of principle cannot be compromised and sees a clear distinction between himself and Ed Markey.

After the current administration’s failure to deal with the problem of terrorism here in our own back yard we need the expertise and experience of Mike Sullivan.

Chris Noonan Funnell