Greater Dallas Pachyderm Club Meeting.

Lunch Provided by Eddie Deen’s.

Candidates:

PASTOR STEPHEN BRODEN has been actively involved in the pro-life movement since

1983 and is the chief spokesperson for the black pro-life movement in Dallas.  He leads a group of black men rescuing babies and mothers from the culture of death in Dallas.  He is currently a principal leader in the black pro-life movement responsible for developing a national strategy to activate the black community against the abortion industry.  He is also a regular contributor to blackprolifemovement.blogspot.com.

Pastor Stephen Broden came to know the Lord in Dallas, Texas during the summer of 1978. A businessman and Elder at Highland Park Presbyterian Church, Ford Madison, took an interest in Stephen and invited him to a Bible study. Through that study he accepted the Lord and started to explore the scriptures with the ambition to know more about the Savior. It was during his study that the Lord called him to serve the Kingdom of God in the black community. Pastor Broden is convinced that the only hope for the inner city and the world is Jesus Christ through a personal relationship with Him and his word.  Pastor Stephen Broden is presently working in Southeast Dallas fulfilling the commandment to make disciples.

Pastor Broden is President of the Fair Park Friendship Center and Senior Pastor of the Fair Park Bible Fellowship.

Husband to Donna W. Broden, father to Jamaal 29, Maia 27, and Stephenie 22.

Graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary with a Masters of Arts in Bible Studies

Graduate of the University of Michigan with a Bachelors degree and Masters of Arts in Communication.

Has worked in the inner city for over 27 years

Executive Director and President of Fair Park Friendship Center for over 22 years

Planted Fair Park Bible Fellowship in 1987

Served as an Adjunct Professor at the Dallas Baptist University from 1990-1992

President of the African American Alumni Association Executive Committee

Founder of Ebony Berean, an organization with a mission to inform African-American Pastors of the “Cultural Wars”

Awarded “Champion of the Republican Party” by the NRCC Business Advisory Council Texas

Served as Republican Precinct Chairman in DeSoto, Texas, 1999-2002

http://www.brodenforcongress.com

SHELDON GOLDSTEIN Growing up in a middle class Jewish family, Sheldon Goldstein was fortunate to have parents who instilled in him the values of family, hard work and personal responsibility. Like many families back in the day, they were a household of conservative Democrats who believed in hard work and personal responsibility.

But, as you know, most Americans didn’t leave the Democratic Party – the party left them. By the time Sheldon was a young man, liberals had taken over the party with plans for much bigger government, higher taxes and limited personal freedom. This was no longer the party that represented the conservative values of his family.

In his early twenties Sheldon traveled abroad eventually opening a successful art studio in Tuscany, Italy before returning back to Texas to earn his law degree and marry his wife, Michelle. Soon, they opened their own law firm of Goldstein & Scopellite, PC, located in the historic State–Thomas District of Uptown where they specialize in family law, litigation, business and probate.

Michelle and Sheldon spent many years working, growing our business, staying involved in our faith and community helping various non-profits including Union Gospel Mission, Salvation Army, Toys for Tots and the Dallas Food Bank.

But like many in our country, they have grown frustrated by the direction of our great nation and the actions of both political parties … the radical liberal agenda of the Democrats and the weak response of Republicans who did nothing to stop the tremendous growth of government. You just can’t tax and spend your way into prosperity.

So, he became a proud and active participant in the reawakening of our conservative movement.  Taking on the radical agenda of President Obama, Sheldon joined thousands of conservatives from North Texans in the march on Washington to make sure our message was heard loud and clear: America needs limited government, less spending and more freedom.

Then, when the Washington elite and the national media ignored and ridiculed conservatives, Sheldon decided to run for U.S. Congress, District 30, taking on one of the most liberal members of the House of Representatives … an entrenched politician who does not represent the values of our community.

Instead of working for us, the incumbent Democrat has been catering to the special interests of Washington, looking for new and wasteful ways to spend your money, voting for every single proposal to increase taxes, pushing for government control of our health care … doing virtually everything that Nancy Pelosi tells her to do.

As your Congressman, Sheldon Goldstein will finally provide leadership on the issues that are important to North Texas. He will focus on job growth and economic recovery with smart incentives for companies to hire new employees and tax relief for small businesses.

He will return to fiscal responsibility to Washington by standing up to the big-spending politicians of both parties who are adding trillions of dollars to our national deficit. To protect taxpayers during these tough economic times, the best thing we can do is decrease the size of government and finally reduce the tax burden on working families.

And, Sheldon will do everything in his power to stop the government takeover of our health care system. The folks in Washington can’t even keep party crashers out of the White House so why should we trust them with our health?

If we don’t make a change in Washington now, we may never get it done. And, if don’t stand up now … if we don’t do something today … it will be our children and grandchildren who literally pay the price.

http://www.goldsteinforcongress.com

CHARLES LINGERFELT Born a Tennessean and educated there, Charles Lingerfelt received his formal training at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, where he also met his wife – the former Miss Carolyn McAvoy. After dating and an engagement period, Charles and Carolyn became husband and wife on August 30, 1964.

From this marriage came three sons and three daughters, and today after all children are married successfully, Charles and Carolyn have 13 beautiful grandchildren. Three of their children were born in Texas, after Charles and Carolyn made Texas their home in 1969.

Charles has successfully served in many capacities in his lifetime – all of which consistently involve “serving people.” After having been taught by his parents to “love people,” Charles has served as a Teacher, a Coach of Football, Basketball and Baseball, Assistant Principal and Principal. Many times while serving as a Coach, he was forced to raise his own funds to buy sporting equipment, jerseys and pads, pants and shoes, helmets and shoulder pads, in order for his students to “play the Games” safely and successfully. Charles has never wavered in asking people to “participate financially” for a worthy cause.

In 1972, Charles and Carolyn founded a work in Central Texas and incorporated it as a Non-profit corporation to help reach youth and young adults from the pitfalls of drug addiction, alcoholism, gang-related activities and others who were “troubled” with breaking the law. He has never viewed any case whatsoever as hopeless and lost forever. His lifetime desire has always been to “reach the least, the last, and the lost.” Charles and Carolyn have always devoted themselves to just “loving people” no matter who, or where.

Since 1977, Charles has been devoted to work in the grassroots helping people at various levels become elected to different positions ~ from Judges to Justices, and from Mayors to Presidents ~ from Senators and Congressmen to Governors and other high-level personnel.

He has “Marched” throughout Texas with his American flag in pro-Constitutional rallies, I Love America Rallies, Pro-family and anti-abortion campaigns, and many Support-the-Troops rallies throughout America. He has “worked” the phone banks in Texas and Louisiana, and in many other states to help get the Voters out to the polls to vote. He has been the “Organizer” in many of these Conservative and Republican campaigns which have attracted thousands, or hundreds, and has even “marched” alone to represent the American values and the American way of life.

He has served the Republican Party as Precinct Chair, Delegate to a number of conventions, Chairman of Senatorial Districts and committees within the party and districts.

In 2006, Charles and Don English went to Kurdistan in Northern Iraq and established the Kurdish American School in the city of Dohuk, teaching college level and young Kurds, Assyrians, and Izzedi adults in American English, Government and democratic principles. Charles has traveled back to Kurdistan on seven different occasions since to perform these duties as Teacher/Director and Founder of the School there in Northern Iraq. He has traveled extensively in a number of countries throughout the Middle East to bear forth the theme of his life: ‘Still Trying to Make a Difference!’

http://Lingyforcongress.com