By Treye Green
Joe Newman has seen a lot in his 101 years of living — experience he is now ready to take to Capitol Hill.
The Sarasota, Fla., man has announced he will compete for Florida’s 16th Congressional District seat, challenging current holder Vern Buchanan. Newman told WFLA he launched his bid for the U.S. House of Representatives because he knows Congress can do a better job at fulfilling its responsibility to the country’s citizens.
Newman added that he has seen the country evolve and is confident that experience will serve him well as a Florida representative.
“You learn through life you have certain responsibilities. And if you don’t fulfill them, how can you look in the mirror?” he told WFLA.
Read the full story here.
It’s official now 🙂
“Jill Pyeatt February 25, 2014 at 12:01 pm
Hey, I’ll call him PTL; ‘Pathetic Troll Loser’.
How sad he has nothing to do but irritate people.”
I would not be surprised if this individual is on a government payroll, as in they are getting paid to troll here.
God bless this old man. Let’s hope he lives another 101 years. And god bless Vernon/Spence. Forgive him for he know not what evil his comment causes for readers.
Hey, I’ll call him PTL; “Pathetic Troll Loser”.
How sad he has nothing to do but irritate people.
Whatever it calls itself, I dub it troll.
“Vernon February 24, 2014 at 7:24 pm
He is old enough to remember a much better America where minorities were not riding roughshod over the Majority.”
Hey, look everybody, “Spence” is back, and now he’s calling himself Vernon.
He is old enough to remember a much better America where minorities were not riding roughshod over the Majority.
Hard to believe he’s been here 101 years and still doesn’t know what the Constitution says about Congress’ responsibilities to the citizens. And I’ll just bet his final will says something like “Hey everybody, take whatever you want. None of this so-called property is mine.”
Good for him!
Hope the Green Party nominates him.