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“As a
Special Agent for USA Counter-intelligence, Historian, Educator, Business
Owner, Athlete, Political Activist, and Common-sense Tax –Paying Citizen I
understand the importance of playing by the rules and obeying the law – and
‘encouraging’ others to do the same.”
Tom Lingenfelter, US
Congress PA 8th
Tom Lingenfelter was
born at the farm of his grand-parents (William and Martha Hearn) near
Williamsburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania, where he spent much of his early
life. He attended public schools in Boyertown, Berks County, and has
resided in the Bux-Mont area for the past 35 years. He currently resides in
Bucks County.
Tom earned a BA degree in
History at The Kings College, NY, and 30+ Masters Degree credits in
educational psychology at Temple University, Philadelphia.
For most of his life he
has been an active athlete. College soccer, National Masters indoor sprint
Bronze medal, Pennsylvania indoor sprint champion, Keystone Games medalist
in field hockey and shooting. He was a Bronze Medalist at the Pan-American
Games as a member of the US Olympic Field Hockey Team. Tom participated in
the 2008 USA Olympic Pistol Shooting Trials and is preparing for the 2012
Olympic Shooting Trials.
Tom won high honors for
physical training and the designation of Expert in all rifle and pistol
competition during his military service. Selected for the elite
Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC). Tom served with a Top Secret clearance as
a Special Agent.
Upon completion of his
military service, and four years as a public school teacher, Tom started an
advertising business that led to his founding of the Heritage Collectors’
Society, now located in Bucks County. As a nationally known historian, and
one of America’s major dealers in original historic documents and artifacts,
he is involved daily with the history of America. For over fifteen years he
performed appraisals requested by the White House. He has frequently been
interviewed and quoted by local and national media and was featured in two
PBS television shows. Tom led the investigative research that discovered the
previously unknown True Copy of the Original Declaration of Independence and
the ‘Birth Certificate’ of the US Constitution.
Tom Lingenfelter has
for the past 15 years challenged the political machines of both parties – in
the courts, in the media and at the ballot box. Running against the party
boss’s endorsement he twice won a GOP State Committee slot and garnered 40%
in a GOP Congressional primary against an entrenched incumbent. Tom
recently had an 89% primary victory over the Democrat party boss’s hand
picked challenger and a 47% showing against the incumbent in the General
election. Because of his “think for yourself” reputation Tom has a base of
support in both major parties. “Running for office as an independent has
given me the experience of real political freedom and a wider view of the
possibilities.”
Tom believes that
running and winning as an independent is the key to repairing what has
become an “of the few, by the few, for the few,” broken political system. “I
have learned in my venture into the ‘other world’ of politics that America
is in the grip of a duopolistic political machine, controlling and devouring
the Constitutional process. As a trained ‘cold war’ Intelligence Agent, I
recognize in America’s political system, an insidious enemy threatening our
basic principles of freedom. This evil system must be confronted. We must
not be naïve or timid in this battle. We must take the offensive and compel
responsibility and accountability by those entrusted with our government."
“As a descendant of
pioneers who settled in Pennsylvania 260 years ago, and as a Historian, I
know what made America great – and I know what we must do to keep it that
way. This is why I am speaking out – Freedom was born here, it must not die
here”.
“I believe the
purpose of good government is to foster the principles of truth, justice,
and liberty – anything less, or anything else is bad government.”
www.TomLingenfelter.com
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