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Beatty candidacy adds to list of
adventures Congressional hopeful addresses town GOP By Paul Gauvin pgauvin@barnstablepatriot.com Any similarity between 10th Congressional District candidate Jeff Beatty and James "007" Bond is purely coincidental. Beatty is the real thing. The Harwich Republican, who aims to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, really was shot down and badly injured in action while piloting a Blackhawk helicopter; really was a Delta Force commander; really did serve with FBI and CIA counter- and anti-terrorism units; really was targeted for assassination in a foreign country and really does run an international business dealing with major security issues. That briefly was the curriculum vitae offered by the 54-year-old adventurer to some 50 people at a Barnstable Republican Town Committee meeting Monday in the conference room of Poyant Real Estate on Barnstable Road in Hyannis. And if Beatty can capture votes as he captivated this week’s audience with a slide show and quick read of "Terrorism 101," he could be a formidable political foe testing Delahunt’s incumbent bid for a sixth two-year term – even though Beatty is running as a Republican, the party, according to most national pundits, most vulnerable in the mid-term balloting. "Don’t let the sleight-of-hand crowd make you believe this election is about (President George) Bush," Beatty told the partisan audience. "This is not a referendum on Bush. This is a congressional election," he said, implying that it is about replacing "cookie-cutter" congressmen, not the president. Beatty told the audience last night that he has already secured a place on the ballot by turning in some 3,000 signatures while he needed only 2,000. He urged audience members "to help others (candidates) who need signatures and are here tonight." That included Doug Bennett of Nantucket, looking to unseat C&I Sen. Robert O’Leary; Will Crocker, who wants to replace Demetrius Atsalis as 2nd Barnstable District state representative and Phil Paleologos of New Bedford, a diner owner hoping to unseat Governor’s Councilor Carole Fiola of Fall River. Beatty spent most of his 30-minute presentation familiarizing the audience with the terrorist mentality and modus operandi. He had to be asked by an audience member what it was he hoped to accomplish as a congressman. "An overhaul of Congress," he replied, to include "term limits and campaign finance reform." He said too many congressmen spend a lifetime in office, which, he noted, was not the intent of the Constitution’s authors. As an international businessman for the last 15 years, he said the Cape and South Shore economies "are not what they ought to be. There is not significant business investment." It’s something he would attend to, he said. And, for an expert in security, he said homeland security could be much better for less cost. "I know what to do about that," he said. Asked what he thought of Bush’s nomination of an active general, Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden to head the CIA, he said: "I’m comfortable with a military man," but similar to his view of long-term congressmen, said he wouldn’t want to see only military men handling the nation’s security: "It needs a mix, different viewpoints." |
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