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Paul Streitz seeks U.S. Senate seat
By Jaclyn Trop

Paul Streitz thinks it’s time for the country to pull out of Iraq and turn its attention to the “demographic war” Mexico is waging on the U.S. border.

Streitz, a 10-year Darien resident, announced Tuesday his decision to run for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate on an anti-immigration and pro-working class platform. He told The Darien Times yesterday that he thinks his chances for defeating incumbent Democrat Joseph Lieberman are “very good.”

Lieberman has divided the Democratic party by supporting immigration, the war in Iraq, and job outsourcing, Streitz said.

“It is time to get the troops out of Iraq and put them on the Mexican border. Thousands of Mexicans and other illegal aliens from other countries come into this country every day. This is an invasion, not immigration,” Streitz said in a press release.

“The Mexicans are serious about their Reconquista claims to Aztlan. The Senate is headed toward surrendering the states of California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas,” the press release continued.

A marketing researcher for the Metropolitan Transit Authority in New York, Streitz was unsuccessful in his bid for the Republican nomination in 2004.

Streitz co-founded Connecticut Citizens for Immigration Control, a grassroots organization to talk about immigration, last spring. He said the group has a mailing list of about 180 people, most of whom come from Danbury.

The group performed a study of McDonald’s restaurants in the state and found that, in the western area, the franchise is “practically exclusively Hispanic in employment practices.”

“We feel that this is discriminatory,” he said.

Streitz also spent a week with the Arizona Minutemen on the border last April, where he found “enormous dissatisfaction with government not policing the border.”

Despite the “chilly nights,” Streitz said the experience was valuable in helping him see the lax border control that allows 10,000 illegal immigrants to come in every week.

“It was just a fence, meant to keep out cattle, not people,” he said.
Streitz, who has a 16-year-old daughter at Darien High School, said that his grassroots election campaign has raised $500 as of Tuesday.