Mike Sroka
As your Representative in Concord I will work to restore limited, constitutional government back to the people of New Hampshire. I will fight to lower taxes, set responsible limits on State spending, and work to get government out of the way of the American people and off the backs of local businesses.
My name is Mike Sroka and I am running for New Hampshire State Representative in the 6th district representing the towns of Milford and Amherst.
I was born and raised in western Massachusetts. After graduating from Chicopee High School in 1988 I enlisted in the United States Navy where I would proudly serve for the next 10 years of my life. I served during the final days of the cold war, the first Gulf War, the conflict in Bosnia, and numerous other military operations during the 1990’s. My assignments included several surface ships, special boat units, and supporting SEAL & EOD training\diver operations.
For the past ten years I have worked in information technology, project management, and professional services. I graduated Magna Cum Laude from Daniel Webster College in Nashua with a degree in Business Management and am currently pursuing a Juris Doctorate at Concord University School of Law.
My wife and I currently reside in Milford with our three children, Madison, Jameson, and Corben. After my time in the Navy was up we decided to return to New England to be closer to our family and raise our family near the places and sights where we grew up. Not wanting to return to high taxes and intrusive government in Mass we chose to live in the granite state.
I’m running for State Representative because New Hampshire used to be a place where freedom didn’t require a visit to the Town Clerk to file an application, come with a fee, or require permission from some fat bureaucrat. Teddy Kennedy’s girth notwithstanding, today our freedom more often than not requires the government’s stamp of approval. My friends if you’re like me you’re fed up with it; I’m so fed up I decided to run for office to put an end to this nonsense once and for all.
As Ronald Reagan so brilliantly and adeptly stated in his first inaugural address, “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Government programs and politicians who have vested interests in maintaining and sustaining misery are not the answer. More government control is not the answer. More government spending is not the answer. Freedom, as it has always been, is the answer.
As your Representative in Concord I will work to restore limited, constitutional government back to the people of New Hampshire. I will fight to lower taxes, set responsible limits on State spending, and work to get government out of the way of the American people and off the backs of local businesses. Families are the heart and sprit of America as your Representative I will see that the sanctity of our families and our parental rights are not infringed upon nor sullied by politicians who assume that they know better than we do about how to raise them.
The founding fathers gave us this system of government not for the benefit of the few or the privileged, but for “We the people”. Our system of government is not perfect, the founders knew that all governments eventually grow beyond their scope; that all governments naturally, incrementally, and systematically acquire power; that all politicians make promises they never intend to keep, or are incapable of delivering. Great Brittan was not the enemy of our forefathers; bureaucracy was. The Representative is therefore, first and foremost, a defender of the people; the protector of the individual against government unchecked.
Today most politicians run on a platform of what they can deliver; that is what they can take from someone else to give to you. Many incumbent politicians run on what they have delivered; in other words what they have taken from someone else and given to you. Today’s politician is little more than an arbiter of wealth and property; deciding who gets to keep what they have and who doesn’t. It is a shill game, designed to keep the people hopeful yet simultaneously miserable; promising yet never delivering. I am not a politician.
When I raised my hand before God and my country some twenty years ago and promised to protect and defend my home and my country I did not take that charge lightly then, nor do I now; my oath did not come with an expiration date, nor was it morally relative. I uphold those promises to this day even though I do not wear the uniform anymore. When I take a new oath to be your Representative I will do so with the same zeal and devotion to duty to which I have endeavored to maintain all these years. It is a promise to you and my family. God bless the United States.