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Lowell Sun - Golnik: Business owners need more support

By Jon Golnik, on Aug 6, 2010

Golnik: Business owners need more support
By Hiroko Sato, hsato@lowellsun.com
Updated: 08/06/2010 06:35:42 AM EDT

LOWELL -- Ralph Hogan, owner of Hogan Construction, hasn't built a new home in two years.

People can't get bank loans for new construction, Hogan told Jon Golnik, a Republican candidate for the Fifth Congressional District seat. So, the company takes on kitchen and bath renovations to stay afloat.

Frank King, owner of Action King Sewer Service on Livingston Street, wanted Golnik to know that finding the right employees can also be a challenge even in this job market.

Just days after King hired a truck driver to transport portable toilets earlier this year, the government extended unemployment benefits. The new hire, who had been laid off from his previous job, quit, choosing the $500-a-week benefit over the $480-a-week paycheck.

"You have to put money on Main Street," Hogan told Golnik. "There is a real disconnect between what the Congress is doing and what goes on on Main Street."

"We need to get money to small businesses," Golnik said, proposing to increase the sizes of loans that are made available through the Small Business Administration.

Golnik, a Carlisle resident seeking his party's nomination in the Fifth District, hit the campaign trail yesterday morning, meeting with Lowell business owners. Golnik greeted patrons at the Owl Diner on Appleton Street and sat down with Hogan, King and diner owner Tommy Shanahan before strolling through the downtown.

A former Republican activist who worked for Mitt Romney's Senate run against

Ted Kennedy in 1994 and for George W. Bush's campaign in 2000, Golnik said he is tired of politics as usual.

"Politics is not public service anymore -- it's a career," Golnik said, adding that career politicians make decisions that benefit themselves. "Our founding fathers believed in citizen legislators."

Golnik, who runs a business that resells Boston College merchandise, believes the government must help small businesses get better access to loans in order to create more jobs. He also proposes to lower the U.S. corporate tax, which he says is the highest in the world after Japan's.

"Give small investors a tax credit based on the percentage of their investment in a small, non-publicly traded company," Golnik wrote on his website. "There is money on the sidelines and banks aren't lending."

During the meet-and-greet yesterday, however, Golnik did not speak as much about his ideas, saying he wants to be a good listener first.

"Hopefully, you will get elected and continue to listen," King said.

Read online HERE.

New Radio Ad

By Jon Golnik, on Jul 27, 2010

Here is our latest radio ad. I would love to get your thoughts on the messaging, please feel free to use the form below to give me your feedback. 

Also, if you like this ad, you can help us put it on the air to get our message out to the voters. 

Simply donate $55 right now, and we will direct your contribution to ensure this radio advertisement is extended on the airwaves. 

Can You Hear Us Now? Tour

By Jon Golnik, on Jul 26, 2010

I began the third leg of my “Can You Hear Us Now? Tour,” visiting businesses in Lawrence and Haverhill.  I will continue this week in  Andover and Methuen, so if you are near one of my stops, please feel free to come on by at one of the locations listed below.  I’m going to try to do two towns per week, so if you know of a business that would like me to stop by to listen to the concerns of the business community, contact my campaign.

Boston Herald: Critics blast $500G in stimulus waste

By Jon Golnik, on Jul 20, 2010

Critics blast $500G in stimulus sign language
By Hillary Chabot, Katie Carlin and Joe Dwinell
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - Updated 43 minutes ago
Photo by Mark Garfinkel
The Bay State has blown nearly $500,000 in taxpayer dough on road signs promoting President Obama’s stimulus projects - nearly 10 percent of the total nationwide - in a campaign Republicans are ripping as wasteful partisan propaganda in tough election year, a Herald review shows.

“It kills me to see us spending that much money on a bunch of signs to tell people what they’re spending their money on,” huffed Republican Jon Golnik, who’s running against U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas (D-Lowell) in the 5th congressional district. “It’s the definition of waste.”

The Obama-friendly signs - which cost some $443,000 to make and install - have popped up at construction sites everywhere from Danvers to Harvard. They remind motorists the president is “Putting America to Work,” even as local congressional Democrats fend off strong challengers riding a throw-the-bums out tide.

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Letter: Golnik will push fiscal responsibility

By Jon Golnik, on Jul 10, 2010

Golnik will push fiscal responsibility
Published in The Lowell Sun
07/09/2010

Washington politicians are on a spending spree. U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas deserves a large portion of the blame for Washington's reckless borrowing and spending policies. Why? Because Rep. Tsongas sits on the House Committee on the Budget -- the committee charged with overseeing federal finances.

This year the Democrats in Congress have conceded that they won't be passing a budget resolution until after the November election. Under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, a resolution is required by May 15. Congress is choosing to disregard its own law.

Why won't the Democrats produce a budget? One reason is that a budget resolution requires five-year projections for federal spending and revenues. Those numbers won't be pretty in part because of the health-care entitlement program that Rep. Tsongas and her colleagues voted for in February.

Another reason is that a budget resolution would slow spending for special projects and favored interests. With a resolution, new spending requires 60 votes in the Senate versus 51 without.

The failure of Rep. Tsongas and the Budget Committee to produce a budget means that Washington politicians can continue their spending spree unchecked.

Jon Golnik knows this is wrong. He's a small businessman from the Lowell area running for Congress.