Charles Lollar is one of the candidates. As a major in the Marine Corps Reserves and a businessman, Lollar is taking on the second most powerful Democrat in the House, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland.
Lollar said that just as he felt drawn to serve his country, he feels called to run against those he says are steering America off track.
“The policies of socialism,” he said. “The policies that say government should get involved in competition when that’s not the government’s role, the policies that extend government and makes it overwhelming with the tax burden where every 38 cents of your dollar goes to state, federal or local government, where you’re only getting 62 cents of every dollar you earned –there’s something wrong with that.”
“If we keep going down the road we’re going, financially – I think – it’s 53 to 54 cents of every dollar we make with this health care bill intact. We’re getting closer and closer to slavery,” he said.
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