Tom McClintock For Congress

AUBURN, CA—State Senator Tom McClintock, before a gathering of friends and supporters on the steps of the historic Placer County Courthouse in Auburn, officially launched his campaign for 4th Congressional District on Tuesday.

McClintock received immediate endorsements from area lawmakers, including Senator Sam Aanasted, Assemblyman Ted Gaines, Assemblyman Rick Keene, Auburn City Councilman Kevin Hanley, and Yuba County Supervisor Dan Logue.  Nevada County Supervisor Sue Horne, who was also in attendance, endorsed McClintock last Friday.  Eric Egland, another candidate in the congressional race, announced that he would immediately end his campaign and endorse McClintock. 

McClintock was joined by his wife, Lori and together the McClintocks thanked the many people throughout the district who have come forward to offer their encouragement and support. 

McClintock’s Remarks:

I've listened closely to your voices and to your counsel.  And I am here now to ask for your
consideration of my candidacy for Congress.

The people of these communities already know me very well.  Seven times I have appeared on the ballot here, and seven times the people of this district have responded with overwhelming margins of support, for which I am deeply humbled and very grateful.

Like all of you, I believe in the founding vision of America; in a nation whose government's purpose is to defend our natural rights as individual citizens.

And like all of you, I watched as Ronald Reagan brought a new energy to that vision.  Our generation knew a time when it truly was morning again in America.  I want our children to know what that feels like.

It is true that we had a Republican Congress and a Republican president and they squandered Reagan's legacy.   They abandoned our Republican principles.  I want to return to them.

The fundamental purpose of our national government is to defend our borders.

We want our nation's sovereignty back.   The fundamental design of our national government is to maximize individual freedom and minimize the burdens of government on our people.  Government is not our nanny and our national treasury is not a grab-bag for politicians.

We want our families back and our families' earnings back.

The fundamental promise of our national government is to protect our basic rights as Americans: our freedom of speech, our property rights, and our right of self defense.  We want our constitution back. 

It is time that Republicans returned to our traditional principles of constitutional government.  Until we do so, we cannot succeed in saving our country.  Once we do so, we cannot fail.

The people here in this congressional district - more than any other in the state -- have cheered me and encouraged me during the 22 years that I have spent at our state capitol to defend these principles.  You know me.  You know that I have always steered a straight course - I have never wavered from the principles that once united all of us as Americans.  And I will not
rest until those principles have been restored to our government.

And so, to the good people of the Fourth Congressional District, I ask you to consider the record and the principles that I bring to this campaign.  And if you will have me, I would be proud to represent you in our Congress,” McClintock concluded.