Congressional Candidate Paul Partyka Slams BP for Slow Response to Gulf Oil Disaster, Urges Long Term Solutions

WINTER SPRINGS - Paul Partyka, Democratic candidate for Congress in Florida’s 24th District, said oil giant BP must be held responsible for the Gulf oil disaster and criticized company officials for their handling of the crisis.

“I believe BP’s strategy was designed to save their oil well, not the Gulf of Mexico, not the environment, not the fisheries, not the rookeries, not the beaches, and not the thousands of American families who will suffer from this disaster for the next generations,” Partyka said.

“It is clear that BP’s estimates of the oil flow rate were ridiculously low, and it is just as clear that their initial efforts were to control the flow and not to shut it down. Now, we have to pay the price for their strategy,” he said.

“The ultimate cost of this strategy will be borne by American families for generations to come. BP’s calculations were wholly economic, wholly self-serving, and we Americans will pay a far greater price than BP can ever compensate,” Partyka said.

America’s growing dependence on non-sustainable energy sources set the stage for the Gulf oil disaster, Partyka said.

“We are the world’s greatest energy consumer and the world is approaching peak oil capacity,” Partyka said. “If we continue this course we will eventually find ourselves at war with the rest of the world over oil,” he said.

“I believe America deserves a more honorable destiny. I believe America can lead the world toward cleaner, safer, more sustainable energy sources that mean prosperity for all Americans, and for the rest of the world as well. The way ahead will not be easy, but it is the right way, and our present course leads ultimately to disaster,” Partyka said.

“We have the resources to end our energy dependence,” Partyka said. “We have the technology.
We must have the will. America has a moral obligation to end our addiction to oil. That is our future, it is our children’s future, and it is the only honorable future for America,” he said.


For more information please contact: Paul P. Partyka, 407-341-0805 PaulPartykaforCongress@Gmail.com
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Baton Rouge Financial & Real Estate Consultant Knows the Solutions to America’s Present Economic Woes

BATON ROUGE - When the extent of the U.S. economic collapse began to unfold three years ago, Pete Goff, Jr., wasn’t surprised. He’d been watching it closely for some time. From the inside.

“From my perspective it was like watching a car crash in slow motion,” Goff said. “I saw it happening but was not in a position to prevent it.” Goff decided he must take action.

He began an obsessive study of macro economics. Armed with degrees in Business Administration and Accounting from LSU and more than 25 years of experience as a lender, builder, and development consultant, Goff has a solid grasp of the economy---finance, accounting, and fiscal policy.

Now his analysis of our economic problems, complete with solutions, are ready to be made public. “The solutions are not simple, but they’re achievable,” Goff said recently. The Inevitable Path, from beginning to end, is an honest assessment of America’s economic problems, the mistakes that caused them, and solutions required to remedy them.

He’s about to complete his first book, The Inevitable Path, that’s being shopped to U.S. publishers. And he has something worth reading: the step-by-step solution to America’s economic turmoil.

One of the fist steps Congress must undertake, Goff said, is to reenact the Glass-Steagall Act in its original form. Coincidence or not, Glass-Steagall worked for 66 years, but only 8 years after its 1999 repeal, the entire financial system collapsed.

“Repeal of Glass-Steagall allowed the self-regulate and self-correct philosophy of our financial and government “leaders” that led directly to the economic collapse,” Goff said.

There are six street-level changes providing a “three-year plan” to return America to economic stability. These solutions are proven methods to substantially restore the U.S. housing market---the nation’s most significant accumulation of wealth---and spur new development.

“The Inevitable Path focuses on practical, prescriptive changes Congress and bank regulators could undertake immediately,” Goff explained. “We can posture and point fingers for the next decade, but that won’t solve our economic dilemma.”* * *

For more information, contact:
Pete Goff, Jr., Author 225-413-7876 petegoffjr@yahoo.com; Larry Vershel, Larry Vershel Communications 407 644-4142 lvershelco@aol.com.

What’s next For Baton Rouge Banker, Developer Pete Goff Jr.? Definitive Book on America’s Financial Woes to Include Solution

Baton Rouge - For the past three years, Baton Rouge banker, community developer and business owner Pete Goff, Jr., has been studying America’s economic crisis. He’s the first to call it an obsession.

Soon, he’ll call it a book---The Inevitable Path---that he promises will include definitive solutions to the nation’s economic woes. Goff is currently shopping the nearly-completed manuscript to major publishers.

“I’ve been in the trenches of real estate development and construction, and I’ve worked on both sides of the desk as a general contractor and lender,” Goff said.

“The current economic decline is an incredibly complex set of issues and our current path is a disaster,” he said.

Goff said the stakes are too high to fail.

“Unless we change what we are doing and how we approach the problem, we will literally change the world by default---by abandoning our role as a world economic leader, as a force for good, as a political and military power, and as a moral power,” he said.

Goff earned degrees in Accounting and Business Administration from Louisiana State University. He served as senior banking executive with Louisiana’s largest bank and principal of his own general contracting and community development business.

“I watched the economic collapse from the inside. I know the way out and I feel compelled to tell the story,” Goff explained.

Goff said he plans to complete the manuscript for The Inevitable Path before its June 1 deadline.

For more information, contact: Pete Goff, Jr., Author 225-413-7876 petegoffjr@yahoo.com; Larry Vershel, Larry Vershel Communications 407 644-4142 lvershelco@aol.com.

President Obama’s Housing Recovery Plan deserves a chance to Succeed---and it might, says leading Realtor Roger Soderstrom

President Obama’s Housing Recovery Plan deserves a chance to Succeed---and it might, says leading Realtor Roger Soderstrom

ORLANDO, Fla. - President Obama’s recently announced housing recovery plan may succeed in stabilizing the U.S. housing market and re-energizing the home building industry, says one of Central Florida’s leading real estate analysts.

Roger Soderstrom, founder and owner of Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty, one of the area’s largest real estate companies, said he thinks Americans may be surprised at how quickly the housing market returns.

“We won’t ever see a return to 2005 levels of activity,” Soderstrom cautioned. “That was a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon and we’re paying for it now,” he said.

But, Soderstrom said, both housing values and new home construction are likely to see upswings as a result of President Obama’s recovery plan. And the whole world is waiting for it.

“Housing is the key to U.S. economic recovery and the U.S. is the lynchpin of the global economy,” Soderstrom said. “We have extensive contacts with international investors and vacation home buyers awaiting the U.S. recovery so they can get back into the market here,” he said.

President Obama announced plans to allocate $75 billion in TARP funds to help lenders modify distressed mortgage loans.

“That’s a good first step,” Soderstrom said. “If it is applied conscientiously it could prove a major shot in the arm for the housing market by encouraging home owners when they need it,” he said.

An additional $200 billion---from funding previously authorized by Congress---will spur Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to move in the same direction.

“By any measure, $275 billion is a substantial effort,” Soderstrom said.

“Past policies---in the context of all the other financial shortfalls---have been disastrous and the sooner we can refocus on sound business policies that include both public and private sectors, the sooner we will encourage Americans to renew their faith in American real estate as a sound investment for the future,” Soderstrom said.

The key, Soderstrom said, will be to reshape the housing industry as a secure long-term investment.

“We shouldn’t look at housing as an investment commodity to earn short-term profits,” Soderstrom said. “That’s an abuse of the system and it’s the reason we’re in this mess.”

“For more than half a century, American real estate has stood as the most reliable long-term security a family could invest in,” Soderstrom said. “That’s what’s made this country such a financial powerhouse, and that’s what will lead the world economic recovery in the years ahead,” he added.

For more information contact

Roger Soderstrom, Founder/Owner Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty 407-588-1260

Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications 407-644-4142