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January 27, 2012
Steve Welch Endorsed by the Republican State Committee
This endorsement serves as a major boost for Steve’s Campaign
Hershey, PA – Today, United States Senate candidate Steve Welch was endorsed by the Republican Party of Pennsylvania. The members of the State Committee sent a clear message that they are ready to unite behind one candidate and make sure that Bob Casey is defeated in November.
Mr. Welch added: “I am humbled to have the support of the Republican State Committee. It is truly an honor. These are the people that are the grassroots of our party. As a party and conservative movement it is time to unite to defeat the Obama-Casey agenda. In the campaign that lies ahead, I will talk about my vision and values, and I will talk about Senator Bob Casey’s record of failure. I look forward to sharing my story, an American story of starting a small business from scratch, creating good jobs, and helping others to do the same. America is the most innovative and most productive country in the world. But it won’t stay that way if Bob Casey and Barack Obama continue to push us toward national bankruptcy. I look forward to a spirited debate over the coming months about the future of this great country.”
Full prepared remarks:
Thank you State Committee!
It’s an incredible honor for to stand before you as the Republican Party endorsed candidate for the United States Senate. I can promise you that I will make you proud of the decision you made here today.
Before I really get rolling here, I have a few people I really need to thank.
First, my wife Nikki. Without her support I could not have taken on this endeavor.
Governor Corbett, your support is very humbling, and I thank you for it.
Chairman Gleason, Bob Asher, and Christine Toretti, thank you for the strong leadership you provide this party.
Most important, I want thank the membership of the State Committee. This was your decision today. I know you took your job very seriously. And I greatly appreciate the trust you have placed in me.
Special thanks go to Ethan, Elaine, Wayne, Val, and so many others who have encouraged me every step of the way.
Now, it’s time to unite as a party and as a conservative movement for the very important battle that lies before us. Our nation and our state are at a critical crossroads. Too many of our citizens are out of work or struggling to stay in their homes. When we look at Washington, there’s red ink as far as the eye can see, and career politicians who don’t have a clue about how the job creating private economy works. That has to change. It has to change now. And Pennsylvania can make it happen this year.
In the campaign that lies ahead, I will talk about my vision and values, and I will talk about Senator Bob Casey’s record of failure.
When Bob Casey ran for office, he spoke about bringing an independent voice to Washington. He talked about balanced budgets and fiscal responsibility. But under Bob Casey’s watch, we’ve seen the size of the federal government explode. And he has voted in lock step with the liberals in his party and supported the failed policies of this president 98% of the time. The bailouts, the health care takeover, the cap and trade job killer, the stimulus spending bill that didn’t create jobs and stuck us with breathtaking levels of debt – Bob Casey voted for all of it. I won’t ever let him get away with telling Pennsylvanians he’s an independent voice. Bob Casey is nothing more than a rubber stamp for Barack Obama and Harry Reid’s big government, job killing liberal agenda.
Now, Casey will try to campaign as someone he is not. I will campaign as who I am. From the very first day I launched my candidacy, I’ve been completely open with the voters and with the people in this room about my own partisan history. We have to be honest with ourselves. In the previous decade, our party in Washington strayed from our conservative principles. Republicans in Washington let earmarks and spending get totally out of control, and our elected officials got into all kinds of corruption scandals. Our country and our party paid a price for that. Right here in Pennsylvania, hundreds of thousands of people left our party because we failed to govern consistent with our core values. I was one of those people.
But when I took one look at the extreme agenda coming from Obama, Casey, Reid, and Pelosi, I came back to the Republican Party with a vengeance. But I didn’t just commit to being a Republican. Partisanship is not what matters most to me. I dedicated myself to making sure our party never again strayed from our principles.
And I wasn’t alone. There were thousands more like me, and they gave us the great Tea Party revolution of 2010. That Tea Party revolution helped elect Tom Corbett to the governorship and Pat Toomey to the US Senate, and it gave our Republican Party victories up and down the Pennsylvania ballot in 2010. That’s the fighting and winning spirit we must take into battle with us this year.
If we stick to our principles of smaller government, more freedom, traditional values, and fidelity to the Constitution, we will not only continue our success in Pennsylvania; but when we beat Barack Obama and Bob Casey this year, we will install our values in the White House and in a new Republican majority in the US Senate.
Second chances in life are a blessing. In 2010, the people of Pennsylvania gave our party a second chance at governing. As your US Senate nominee, I will travel to every corner of our state to bring back every one of the voters we lost a few years back. I will share with them my story. My story is an American story of starting a small business from scratch, creating good jobs, and helping others to do the same. America is the most innovative and most productive country in the world. But it won’t stay that way if Bob Casey and Barack Obama continue to push us toward national bankruptcy.
My friends, the stakes are high. I am committed to fighting for our cause with every fiber of my being and in every hour of every day from now until November sixth. But no candidate is ever successful if he’s working alone. I need the full commitment of each and every one of you.
Together, we will win. Together, we will make our Republican Party proud. And most importantly, together we will restore the values that made America the greatest county in the history of the world.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you for your endorsement today. I will make you proud. Working together, there’s nothing we can’t accomplish. Thank you and God bless.
About Steve
The son of an engineer and teacher, Steve Welch grew up in Chester County, Pennsylvania and attended Penn State University where he earned a Mechanical Engineering degree. Steve, his wife Nicole, and their three young children live in Chester County. Steve started his first major business enterprise, Mitos, in 2001 with hardly a cent to his name. Under Steve’s guidance Mitos developed several critical patents which transformed the biological drug and vaccine industries. The company still resides in Phoenixville, PA under Parker Hannifin guidance. Following the sale of Mitos, Steve co-founded DreamIt Ventures, a new business accelerator model that has been featured in Forbes, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal as a new model for launching technology companies. In just four years, DreamIt Ventures has helped launch 64 new companies. From this experience, Steve has worked with hundreds of early stage entrepreneurs to turn their dreams into reality. As an Eisenhower Fellow, Steve spent time in Asia and Europe studying all aspects of economic development, examining how government policy, technology, and culture impact job creation. In 2010, Steve published We are all Born Entrepreneurs, in which he uses his story and those of over a dozen other entrepreneurs to explain what drives invention, innovation, and job creation. In 2011, he founded the education technology company KinderTown, a business designed to help parents engage in their children’s education at an early age.
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