Middletown native and Senate candidate Eric LaMont Gregory stopped by Sinclair Community College as part of his statewide tour to promote his candidacy.<\/p>\n
Gregory said the recent changes in national health care helped influence him to run for office.<\/p>\n
\u201cHealth is politics,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Gregory was a physiologist who specialized in newborn care.\u00a0 He spent many years working with the World Health Organization, sometimes acting as a liaison between fighting groups within a country.\u00a0 He also worked at Oxford University in England before coming back to his home country.<\/p>\n
\u201cI come back to an America 25 years later that is unrecognizable,\u201d Gregory said.\u00a0 \u201cHow did we get to the point in this country where our young don\u2019t believe that there\u2019s actual opportunities out there for them?\u201d<\/p>\n
Gregory is running as an independent candidate for a U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. George Voinovich.\u00a0 Gregory believes the Republican and Democratic parties have opposed each other for political gain, not because of the ideas each side has.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are a lot of good ideas in America, and no one party has a monopoly on good ideas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
One of Gregory\u2019s ideas include establishing a flat rate 11 percent income tax for a family of four making $34,000 or more.\u00a0 He also wants to create a flat rate one percent tax to fund public schools instead of using property tax money.<\/p>\n
Gregory said voters he meets accept him because of his independent status.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think this is the year of the independent,\u201d Gregory said.\u00a0 \u201cFor too long we\u2019ve been electing parties.\u00a0 Parties don\u2019t vote.\u00a0 Individuals vote.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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