Meers seeks to challenge Halvorson in 11th District

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PRINCETON — A Will County businessman hopes to beat out his opponents in February’s primary election.

Henry Meers Jr. will face David McAloon, Adam Kinzinger, Dave White and Darrel Miller on Feb. 2, 2010, to chose a candidate to face Rep. Debbie Halvorson in the November 2010 election.

It’s no surprise what Meers, 62, with his business and financial background, finds as the nation’s most pressing issue.

“Right now, the biggest problem is the economy,” Meers said.

If elected, Meers said the first thing he would do would be to vote to reduce taxes and regulations as much as possible in order to let the economy start to pick up.

Despite what some economists are saying, Meers said the country’s current financial problems didn’t come from lack of regulations.

“It was heavily regulated,” he said. “Take the Comptroller of the Currency, the FDIC, all these people, they had information on all the banks; they had more information than any one bank, and yet this happened.”

Meers is a strong advocate for a small government.

“We have to let people have as much freedom to make their own economic decisions as possible,” he said. “It’s really the idea of getting the most for the least.”

Meers said that’s true for all areas, whether they’re bedroom communities such as Frankfort, where he lives, or agricultural areas like Bureau County.

“You want the least regulation, the least government you can get,” he said. “All of a sudden you find out when you put a tariff up on something, the other guys put one up too.

Meers said he’s passionate about Americans and their rights.

“People have to pay attention to what Washington is doing because it intimately affects them, so I think that the trick is to let people make their own decisions, rather than try and make them for them,” he said.

Meers said he is running for the nomination because he’s been around politics for a long time, and the current situation has gotten so bad he had to get involved.

“I’m in here, both as a Republican who believes in the basic free market rights of the individual aspect of the party as well as we’ve got to get to Washington and undo this Democratic majority,” he said. “I don’t think the other guys have the same depth of experience I do and view that I do.”

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