Jim Oberweis

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“The priority of our Federal government needs to be on supporting families, on helping businesses create new jobs and securing our country. We must work together to create economic opportunity, to create an impenetrable southern border, and create new monetary oriented foreign policy priorities needed to grow the Florida economy while shrinking the size of our bloated Federal government.” – Jim Oberweis

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Border Security & Immigration System Reform

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Started with "zero", grew to over $5 Billion under management. The Oberweis Micro-Cap Fund was rated among the top five mutual funds in the country over the last 25 years by Morningstar, with a 12.5% compound annual growth rate.

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His legislative experience will let him work for you from Day One!

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Started the Oberweis Foundation, which supports local and national charities as well as conservative causes like Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA, Club for Growth, Florida Citizens Alliance, Eagle Forum Foundation, First Liberty Institute, and America First Policy Institute.

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Each grant - Four figures: Each grant - Five figures:Club for Growth (twice) Wonder Gardens (Bonita Sp)Foundation for the Restoration of America Project H.O.O.D.Immigration Accountability (twice) Turning Point USAFreedom Foundation New Life Dream Center (Ft. Myers)A.N.C.H.O.R. (Cape Coral) New Life Dream Center (Ft. Myers)Harry Chapin Food Bank (twice)Sports Club Center (Naples)Estero Leadership AwardsOne Nation Under GodCool Kids Campaign FoundationLifewise - Lee CountyMen’s Club of Collier County FoundationFlorida Citizens AllianceEagle Forum Foundation4 Kids Southwest FloridaWord of Life Church - Ft. MyersAmerica First Policy InstituteLee Health FoundationCommunity Pregnancy Clinics of Collier CountySt. Mathews House (Naples)Liberty CouncilBuild Promise

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Term limits for Congress and the Senate. It works in Florida and for the President. It will work for Congress

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Continue to protect and restore our Everglades

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Improving infrastructure in Southwest Florida including roads and water to reduce problems caused by rapid growth

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The continual deficit spending of the Federal government — by both Republican and Democrat administrations and legislators — has led to a $37.5 trillion dollar debt that puts our country on an unsustainable path that will eventually lead to disastrous results if not controlled.

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“Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.”— Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack (1758)

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Unfortunately, the interest cost of our federal debt now takes an increasing part of our tax revenue. We must stop our deficit spending before it becomes an unbearable burden for future generations. Interest on our debt is already projected to exceed our spending on defense. This cannot continue. We must get federal spending under control, if only because it is immoral to burden our children and grandchildren with a level of debt that continues to grow.

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Taxpayers should not have to pay educational and healthcare costs for illegal aliens. We must secure our borders and reform our immigration system in a way that is fair, consistent with the rule of law, and streamlines our legal immigration system. In order to stem the flow of illegal aliens, no wall or fence is sufficient by itself to stop this problem, but a combination of enhanced border barriers, technological monitoring and increased border agent staffing is a step in the right direction. Perhaps most important, companies should not be able to gain a competitive advantage by hiring lower paid illegal aliens. Companies must be required to assure that their employees are here legally by using E-Verify or other means. I support a reasonable number of H-2A and H-2B visas where we need immigrants to fill certain jobs, especially seasonal jobs. We are a nation of immigrants and I support legal immigration, but allowing anyone to cut to the head of our immigration line by breaking visa laws or violating border security is fundamentally unfair to those who follow our laws.

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Florida needs to protect the Everglades and the environmental health of Southwest Florida. Following the lead of former U.S. Congressman Francis Rooney, we have seen some action taken to curb the harm of byproduct runoff from the Florida sugar producers, but more needs to be done. We need to return the natural southerly flow of water through the Everglades which can help reduce the threat of red tide and provide more fresh drinking water.

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As a former teacher myself, I realize that the proper education of every child in Florida is crucial to their transformation into thoughtful and productive human beings, and it is also imperative to sustaining our democracy and our economy. We simply cannot compete in the global economy when our children aren’t getting the education they need and deserve. While making sure that existing schools are provided necessary resources, increased competition among traditional government run schools and private schools should be encouraged. Parents should be allowed to select the best school for their children rather than being limited to their immediate geographic boundaries, and I believe school choice will ultimately lead to more motivated teachers, better academic programming and increased allocation of funds for STEM as well as art, music and sports programs.

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The United States Tax Code needs to be greatly simplified with a goal of making federal tax collection broader and flatter. The elimination of contradictory rules and loopholes will not only make tax collection fairer, it will make it more efficient and allow for the reduction of the cost of running, staffing and monitoring the Internal Revenue Service. We can continue to lower federal tax rates for most Americans and spur a new era of growth and prosperity for all Americans if we have the will to further these reforms.

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While we work to achieve that goal, we must work to continue to reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources through the exploration and production of energy and to again become a net energy exporter. The Democrats in Congress have worked hand in hand with Washington DC special interests to prevent our use of America’s abundant oil and gas reserves. They have even blocked the safe delivery of less expensive domestic fuel sources by preventing the construction of the Keystone Pipeline. We need to get beyond the political infighting and special interest protection agendas of the Washington DC career politicians to accommodate both our short term energy needs and long term energy policy goals.

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The best way to help the working and non-working poor in Southwest Florida is to create a vibrant economy and an effective education system. I agree with President John F. Kennedy when he said a “rising tide lifts all boats.” Only through growth oriented policies on economic development, regulation, job creation and fair taxation will businesses grow and hire our Florida residents with good paying jobs.

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I will never seek to limit the speech of those with whom I disagree and I will be vigilant in opposing efforts to stifle anyone’s speech. As an American citizen and a former Republican State Senator and as your next U.S. Congressman for the 19th District, I will aggressively oppose attempts by the radical left Democrat Socialists to promote a “group think” which condemns and ostracizes citizens with mainstream conservative political opinions. More “political correctness” is not needed in our country. I was one of the first financial backers of Charlie Kirk in 2012 when I was a newly elected state senator and he was a senior in high school in Illinois.

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I am also a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. I support Constitutional Carry laws as a deterrent to street crime. Our Founders believed that Americans have an absolute right to defend themselves and their families and to keep and bear reasonable arms. We have extensive gun laws on the books and crime is greatest in some of the areas where our laws are the most restrictive. We need to enforce the laws currently in place and focus on addressing the root causes of crime.

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My religious beliefs and conscience guide me in acting to protect innocent life. I believe that once we determine that we have a human life in the mother’s womb, we must protect that life. The problem is that people have different beliefs about when human life begins. I agree with most Americans that any abortions ought to include reasonable restrictions, such as parental notification and a ban on late-term abortions. Few Floridians support unrestricted abortions on demand. How can any reasonable person argue that a viable eight month old fetus is not a human life and that the mother has the right to kill that fetus?

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We also need to plan ahead to provide transportation infrastructure for the expected continued growth in our community.

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I believe top-down centralized control over education from Washington is the wrong approach. We need to de-emphasize federal control over education and encourage school choice options that empower students and parents to find high performing schools. State and local run school systems competing with private schools are likely to provide better educational opportunities for all.

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The tax reform bill passed in 2017 saved American companies from moving their headquarters to other countries through a maneuver called “inversions”. Our corporate tax rates were so much higher than the rates in other developed countries that many corporations felt they had to change their country of record. The best way to offset lost revenue from lower rates is through the accelerated economic growth that the reforms have encouraged. The 2017 tax reform act and 2025 BBB weren’t perfect, but I believe they were steps in the right direction and we need to build on that.

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Too often we define helping the poor as creating federal and state programs that don’t work or are counterproductive. Rather than focus on programs that help people help themselves out of poverty, ultra-liberal career politicians have focused on establishing a permanent welfare assistance lifestyle which provides incentives for many individuals to remain in poverty. That is the wrong approach which was discredited over 50 years ago. It can create a permanent underclass of Americans who help hold our nation back while fully capable of helping move our nation forward. My good friend, Pastor Corey Brooks, has said that he believes that government has a role in giving people a helping hand to get started but then they must work and achieve on their own. One of the worst things we can do is to create policies that encourage people to stay on welfare for their whole lives.

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First Amendment Free Expression Rights