Fitzpatrick Challenges Candidates to Civility

Voters Want an Issues-Focused Campaign

LEVITTOWN, PA: Brian Fitzpatrick, a candidate for Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District, issued a challenge to all candidates to run issue-focused campaigns after a dirty-trick, illegal website run by Steve Santarsiero is the subject of a Federal Election Commission violation filing.

“Our community wants an issued-focused campaign for Congress,” said Brian Fitzpatrick, “I intend to run a campaign that is uplifting and brings people together to solve the challenges facing our country.”

“I challenge every candidate running for Congress to adhere to this common-decency ‘Civility Pledge’ which will give our community the type of campaign it deserves,” continued Fitzpatrick. [‘Civility Pledge’ enclosed]

“I have lived in Bucks County for nearly forty years. For a short time during my fourteen years as an FBI Special Agent, our country deployed me to the Middle East, Washington, DC, the West Coast and most recently to Kiev,” said Fitzpatrick, “There’s no greater honor than serving your country wherever and whenever you can.”

“My career focused on political corruption showed me that the first step in the slippery slope of criminality is believing your political opponents are not worthy of dignity and respect,” continued Fitzpatrick, “Dirty tricks like this are the politics which people are rejecting wholesale, especially this year from career politicians.”

Law enforcement officials and veterans took offense to the dirty-trick, potentially-illegal website.

“Law enforcement officials put themselves in harm’s way to serve our country,” said former FBI Supervisory Special Agent Mike Campi, who was Brian Fitzpatrick’s supervisor, “To suggest that law enforcement officials who are called away from their hometowns to protect our country are not qualified to run for office is an affront to law enforcement and the families we protect.”

“To insult someone who answers the FBI’s call to travel across the country and around the world to keep America safe, is in a word, disgusting,” continued Campi, “It is clear evidence of how disconnected career politicians have become when they attack the business of the very people who keep us safe.”

“It is beyond the pale for it to be suggested that Brian Fitzpatrick’s FBI service in Iraq and Ukraine disqualifies him from public office,” said retired Air Force Veteran Verne Rider, “Brian has made a career of keeping our country safe and putting corrupt public officials in jail. He is the right person at the right time to serve us in Congress.”

Brian Fitzpatrick is running for Congress to keep our families safe, and to ensure that anybody who works hard and plays by the rules can achieve the American Dream. Brian is a former National Director for the FBI’s Campaign Finance and Election Crimes Enforcement Program, and as a national supervisor for the FBI’s Political Corruption Unit. Brian has lived in Bucks County for nearly four decades.

The Civility Pledge is as follows:

“I PLEDGE to conduct an informative and issue-oriented campaign.

I WILL neither engage in, permit, or condone defamatory attacks upon the character of my opponent(s); nor shall I engage in invasions of personal privacy unrelated to campaign issues.

I WILL NOT use or knowingly permit the use of any campaign material or advertisement which misrepresents, distorts or otherwise falsifies the facts regarding my opponent(s).

I ASSUME personal control and responsibility for the conduct of my campaign.”

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