Eric Gregory announces U.S. Senate candidacy
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Eric LaMont Gregory has announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate.
Gregory, 61, ran briefly as an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2009, before withdrawing from a race eventually won by Rob Portman.
Gregory, a Middletown native and a 1988 graduate of Oxford University in England, is now running as a Republican for the 2012 senatorial election, for a seat currently held by Sen. Sherrod Brown.
According to his website, in addition to living in Ohio and England, Gregory has lived in the Middle East and traveled extensively, wording with several U.S. administrations. He served as a consultant to the Maternal and Newborn Care Unit of the World Health Organization. From there he went on to the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine, Green College, Oxford University, where he received his master's degree in 1988. He served as a clinical physiologist in the care of critically ill preterm babies in the Department of Pediatrics at the John Radcliffe Hospital. He collaborated in research with other European hospitals and universities in Sweden, Finland, The Netherlands, Germany and Turkey.
"I am running for the U.S. Senate, as John Adams proclaimed, to lay upon myself the most solemn obligation to uphold the Constitution of the United States – that constitution, our constitution, that created a government exercised by ordinary citizens, elected at regular intervals by their neighbors, to make and execute laws for the general good," Gregory said in a news release this week to The Highland County Press.
"My candidacy is based on the fact that I share that vision, and the firm conviction that I can win both the nomination and the election to work to achieve it," Gregory said. "I believe that the Republican Party, the party of personal responsibility, family, hard work, and enterprise, is the only party with the strength of purpose to build an America in which economic security can be a reality for all."
Gregory listed several issues for next year's Senate race, including:
• How do we achieve a sense of balance between conflicting interests at home and abroad?
• How do we secure the homeland and, at the same time, remain that beacon of freedom and liberty which those living under tyranny wish to emulate?
• How do we remain true to our own sense of moral purpose when opposed by those who believe that they have a monopoly on morals?
• How do we expand economic growth to benefit all without furthering our debt and without the twin pitfalls of inflation and unemployment?
• How do we maintain a vibrant agricultural and rural economy and renew our cities as centers of education, science and industry?
• How do we in the midst of troubled times awaken in every American a determination to find the best way forward and to regard every proposed solution on its own merits?
"We do so by putting our belief in people first," he said. "We do so by putting country first, we do so by putting America first. In the past two years I have talked to individuals and groups in all 88 counties of this state, from Lake Erie to the Ohio River, representing every aspect of our economic and social life, and it is clear that the people of this state have a vision for the future of this country."
Gregory says he makes "the following solemn promise: to do justice at all times and to all persons to the utmost of my power."
For more information on the candidate, call (937) 366-1221, e-mail: America@inbox.com or go to www.theoxfordscientist.com.
Gregory, 61, ran briefly as an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2009, before withdrawing from a race eventually won by Rob Portman.
Gregory, a Middletown native and a 1988 graduate of Oxford University in England, is now running as a Republican for the 2012 senatorial election, for a seat currently held by Sen. Sherrod Brown.
According to his website, in addition to living in Ohio and England, Gregory has lived in the Middle East and traveled extensively, wording with several U.S. administrations. He served as a consultant to the Maternal and Newborn Care Unit of the World Health Organization. From there he went on to the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine, Green College, Oxford University, where he received his master's degree in 1988. He served as a clinical physiologist in the care of critically ill preterm babies in the Department of Pediatrics at the John Radcliffe Hospital. He collaborated in research with other European hospitals and universities in Sweden, Finland, The Netherlands, Germany and Turkey.
"I am running for the U.S. Senate, as John Adams proclaimed, to lay upon myself the most solemn obligation to uphold the Constitution of the United States – that constitution, our constitution, that created a government exercised by ordinary citizens, elected at regular intervals by their neighbors, to make and execute laws for the general good," Gregory said in a news release this week to The Highland County Press.
"My candidacy is based on the fact that I share that vision, and the firm conviction that I can win both the nomination and the election to work to achieve it," Gregory said. "I believe that the Republican Party, the party of personal responsibility, family, hard work, and enterprise, is the only party with the strength of purpose to build an America in which economic security can be a reality for all."
Gregory listed several issues for next year's Senate race, including:
• How do we achieve a sense of balance between conflicting interests at home and abroad?
• How do we secure the homeland and, at the same time, remain that beacon of freedom and liberty which those living under tyranny wish to emulate?
• How do we remain true to our own sense of moral purpose when opposed by those who believe that they have a monopoly on morals?
• How do we expand economic growth to benefit all without furthering our debt and without the twin pitfalls of inflation and unemployment?
• How do we maintain a vibrant agricultural and rural economy and renew our cities as centers of education, science and industry?
• How do we in the midst of troubled times awaken in every American a determination to find the best way forward and to regard every proposed solution on its own merits?
"We do so by putting our belief in people first," he said. "We do so by putting country first, we do so by putting America first. In the past two years I have talked to individuals and groups in all 88 counties of this state, from Lake Erie to the Ohio River, representing every aspect of our economic and social life, and it is clear that the people of this state have a vision for the future of this country."
Gregory says he makes "the following solemn promise: to do justice at all times and to all persons to the utmost of my power."
For more information on the candidate, call (937) 366-1221, e-mail: America@inbox.com or go to www.theoxfordscientist.com.