Can this Republican really oust Paul Ryan from House?Meet the Republican man who is going all out to beat House Speaker Paul Ryan in the upcoming GOP primary ...
Written by Paul Bremmer
House Speaker Paul Ryan, left, is being challenged in the Aug. 9 Wisconsin primary by businessman Paul Nehlen, right
Paul Nehlen is
just one of hundreds of candidates running for a seat in the U.S. House
of Representatives this year, but the businessman and inventor is
running as if he’s in a national race. In a way, he is.
His Republican primary opponent, after all, is House Speaker Paul Ryan. And with the election scheduled for Aug. 9, national attention is intensifying as the campaign comes down to the wire.
“It’s absolutely a national campaign,” Nehlen told WND. “Paul Ryan opposes 92 percent of the GOP electorate on immigration and seven out of 10 voters on the Muslim refugee pause. Think about that for a moment. That is monumental.
“Paul Ryan has said he will not fund a wall and he will sue Donald Trump over
his comments on Muslim immigration. It would be everything Paul Ryan
could do to cause Mr. Trump to be a one-term, ineffectual president.”
Nehlen
never thought he would run for office, much less challenge the sitting
speaker in a primary. He has spent his life in manufacturing and
industry. He currently serves as senior vice president of operations for
a water filtration and disinfection technologies company, and as an
inventor he recently secured his fifth patent.
However,
when Nehlen read Sen. Jeff Sessions’ report on what was in the new
Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, he immediately dashed off a letter of
protest to Ryan, who was his congressman. He also phoned Ryan’s office
to see if what Sessions wrote was true, but he didn’t get an answer. He
had to go to other countries’ websites to verify what he had read about
the TPP was true.
“I was absolutely incensed,” Nehlen recalled.
The
businessman warned anybody who would listen about the TPP. Meanwhile,
Nehlen also saw Ryan save the Export-Import Bank by attaching it to a
$300 billion highway bill. He dug into Ryan’s campaign financing and
discovered the speaker had received big donations from Beltway insiders
with vested interests in the TPP and the Export-Import Bank.
“I
cannot describe the level of betrayal that that represents,” Nehlen
said. “I’ve had well over 10,000 employees in my lifetime globally, and I
started out in a factory at 18 years old, and it took me 12 years to
get my engineering degree. I’ve run businesses all over the globe. I
just got my fifth U.S. patent a week and a half ago, and I will not
stand by while Paul Ryan burns it all down.”
Nehlen
had thought somebody else would challenge Ryan in his 2016 primary, but
no one stepped up to the plate. So Nehlen, the lifelong businessman,
took on the job himself.
Betrayal
Richard
Viguerie, a longtime conservative fundraiser who chairs American Target
Advertising and Conservative HQ, agreed with Nehlen that Ryan and other
establishment GOP legislators have betrayed conservatives.
“It
was, ‘If we get a majority in the House and Senate, we’ll revoke
Obamacare, we’ll build the wall, we’ll secure the border, we’ll do all
these things,'” Viguerie recalled. “And then they get a majority and
Obama says in December 2014 [of the $1.1 trillion spending bill], ‘I got
everything I wanted.'”
Viguerie, the author of “Takeover,” believes Nehlen is at the vanguard of a power struggle for control of the GOP.
“I
think you’ll find a lot more of these establishment types being
challenged,” Viguerie predicted. “And it won’t all change in the 2016
election, but the groundwork is being laid now so the Republican Party
going forward will never be the same.”
Nehlen
said he drew inspiration from Dave Brat, the college professor who
upset House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the 2014 GOP primary in
Virginia’s 7th district.
“Dave Brat is a hero of mine,” Nehlen declared. “He is another David to a different Goliath.”
Nehlen
hopes to follow in Brat’s footsteps by scoring a major upset over a
member of the GOP’s congressional leadership. He pointed out he has
already quadrupled Brat’s fundraising total from two years ago.
Viguerie has high hopes for Nehlen.
“I
know people who are helping him at a national level, and they’re very
high on him, so hopefully he will be another Dave Brat and join the
Freedom Caucus,” Viguerie said.
‘Out of step’
Nehlen
acknowledged Speaker Ryan may have $10 million in the bank, but he
believes Ryan’s positions on trade and immigration are out of step with
Wisconsinites and the American people.
He pointed to Ryan’s comment in 2013 that
a lawmaker’s job is to put himself in the shoes of other people,
including “the gentleman from India who’s waiting for his green card”
and “the DREAMer who is waiting.”
“We
want to know why he’s working on behalf of foreigners before he’s
working on behalf of Americans,” Nehlen demanded. “We can’t name a time
when Paul Ryan’s worked as hard for us as he has for corporations, and
it’s an indictment of Paul Ryan’s lust for power and his willingness to
vote on behalf of his special interests.”
Nehlen
said he would not like to see any reforms to the legal immigration
system, except for a reduction in the number of H-1B, H-2B, K and L
visas. However, he would like the U.S. to start enforcing existing law
as currently written. He said he has met legal immigrants in Wisconsin
who have told him they don’t want any changes to existing immigration
laws because they want all aspiring immigrants to be held to the same
standards to which they were held.
Foreigners
may make up less than 5 percent of Wisconsin’s population, but Nehlen
insisted the immigration issue resonates in his state. He noted
Wisconsin has seen tuberculosis outbreaks that
originated in immigrant communities, and when an impoverished refugee
contracts TB, taxpayers must pick up the costly bill for treatment.
Nehlen
does not favor admitting any refugees unless they can be properly
vetted, and he has doubts about the feasibility of effective vetting. He
noted Ryan has so far thwarted the Resettlement Accountability National
Security Act of 2015, sponsored by Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas.
Furthermore,
he pointed out, the U.S. has outsourced the first stage of refugee
vetting to the U.N., and the U.N. selects almost exclusively Muslim
refugees to come to America. That’s because Muslim refugees persecute
Christian refugees when they try to come to the refugee camps.
“Unless
you can somehow vet on the front end whether or not a refugee is
Shariah-compliant or not, and I don’t know how you do that, then yes, I
would completely shut [the refugee admissions program] down,” Nehlen
said.
“There’s
over 50 Islamic countries in the world. Why are we taking them here?
There are whole tent cities in Saudi Arabia. There are safe countries –
UAE, Oman. Why aren’t they going there? Why are they coming to the
United States? Let them fill those countries up first.”
Name the enemy
Nehlen
said the U.S. needs to vet all mosques in the country and unshackle the
FBI and CIA from the chains of political correctness.
“We
need to be able to name and identify our enemy, and it is anybody who
is Shariah-compliant,” he said. “The break point isn’t terrorism; the
break point is Shariah. Shariah is absolutely in conflict with the U.S.
Constitution.”
He
said Congress needs to pass H.R. 3892, introduced by Rep. Mario
Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., which would ask the State Department to designate
the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization. He warned that
the Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)
initiative will only make America less safe by embedding Muslim
Brotherhood figures inside DHS as shapers of U.S. counter-terrorism
policy.
“It
is one of the worst pieces of documentation I’ve ever read,” Nehlen
said. “H.R. 3892 needs to be passed. CVE needs to be lit on fire.”
The
national security of the United States may be in dire straits, but
Nehlen nevertheless seeks to bring a message of hope and encouragement
to business leaders and working-class people – not just in Wisconsin’s
first district, but all across America. He hopes his campaign will
inspire others in the private sector to run for office to try and effect
positive change.
“I’ve
already inspired people in Janesville to run for city council,” Nehlen
revealed. “That to me is amazing, and I think it sends a great message
of hope that this country, its best days are still ahead. I firmly
believe that.”
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