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Joe Babits for Congress

Constitutional Conservative Committed to Protecting What We Value Most.

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About Joe

Born in New Jersey, educated in Washington, DC and working in corporate America, Joe Babits knows how to fight!


Joe’s family moved to Hauppauge, New York when he was in grade school where his dad worked as an electrical engineer. A trade he learned while serving in the US Navy during the Korean War. His mom was a homemaker where Joe was joined by a brother and sister. Life in Hauppauge was a leafy suburban neighborhood that loved the New York Mets since Buddy Harrelson and Ed Yost of the ’69 World Series Champions grew up there.

After high school, Joe headed South to Washington for his education, both in academia and government bureaucracy.


Joe was the first in his family to get a four-year college education. He attended George Washington University as an undergraduate and then for his MBA in Finance and Investments at the GW School of Business. After graduating from George Washington, he crossed the Potomac River to Northern Virginia to obtain his law degree from the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. The law school is known for its conservative leaning in law and economics and is one of the top new law schools in America.

 

After graduating from law school, Joe went directly to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Washington in their honors program. He spent a decade at the SEC and served as Counsel to the Commissioner and Special Counsel in the Office of Chief Counsel in the Division of Corporate Finance. 


Here Joe received a unique insight into the “Swamp” and its’ operations. Unique knowledge that he now brings to his congressional race of how Washington works (or does not work). How it also so easy for elected officials, like Bill Posey, to get caught up in being a part of “The Hill Gang”, promise to stay only briefly and then becomes a part of problem. Bill Posey is now running for his NINTH term in Washington!


Joe left Washington and joined Royal Dutch Shell, plc as their lead Securities Counsel. He advises on all aspects of US Securities laws and has represented Shell before the SEC, Congress and the US Justice Department. Joe also has extensive knowledge and experience with both UK and European securities regulations. He has received numerous awards and recognition for his legal work including recently being named to Marquis Who’s Who Top Lawyers in the United States and featured in Fortune Magazine. Joe is uniquely qualified to cut through the red tape and Drain the Swamp in Washington.


Joe lives with his wife, Alathia, in Vero Beach and recently celebrated the wedding of their daughter, Chandler.

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On the Issues

  • Securing Our Border

    Our wide open Southern border is the greatest threat to our national security. In Congress I will work to fund armed military operations on our Southern Border and send our Special Operations teams into Mexico to hunt down and defeat the drug cartels. I will finish the wall, destroy the miles of underground tunnels from Mexico to the US, and reinstate the Remain in Mexico policy.

  • Fixing Our Economy

    Years of reckless tax and spend policy has left us with record inflation and an out of control national debt. In Congress I will work tirelessly to balance the federal budget, for the first time since 2001. I’ll put an end to the free for all spending and ensure we spend your tax dollars wisely. And, we will eliminate funding for all woke, liberal and anti-American programs, only funding the things we absolutely need, like a strong military, public safety, and quality education for our children. 

  • Term Limits

    My promise to the residents of the 8th District is to only serve 2 terms (four years) as a member of Congress. I’ll introduce legislation to enact term limits to two terms. Until that legislation passes, I will introduce subsequent legislation that reduces Congressional salaries to the medium income of a family of four in the US until a term limits amendment to the Constitution is approved limiting any member of Congress to serving no more than two terms, respectively.

  • Protecting Our Constitutional Rights

    In Congress I’ll fight to ensure that every American has the right to free speech, and to practice their faith, without harassment or intimidation. I will introduce a bill of rights that will apply to all large corporations operating in the US, holding them accountable and defunding the extreme liberal woke culture.  I will lead on legislations that restricts the tax exempt status or federal funding to any university that fails to protect students or fails to hold accountable any student who harasses or intimidates other students on campus.  I will be the bulwark between the power hungry extreme liberals and the hard working American families simply looking to exercise their rights.

  • Fixing Washington DC – Drain The Swamp

    In Congress I’ll fight every day to drain the swamp and destroy the deep state. This means ending the administrative state and returning regular order to the appropriate branches of government. I will introduce legislation to break up the bureaucracy by moving federal government agencies out of Washington DC to low cost states, and I will work with my colleagues to pass a bill that makes all federal civil servants at will employees.  

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