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AUGUST 22ND, 2007 - Dean Scontras Comments on Congress’ Record Low Approval Rating

18% Approval Rating Signals a Need for Real Reform in Washington

Eliot, Maine –1st District Congressional Candidate Dean Scontras commented today on the historic low rate of approval that the United States Congress received from Americans in a recent Gallup Poll.  According to the poll conducted from August 13-16, just 18% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, the lowest Congressional approval rating recorded since Gallup began tracking the public’s opinion of Congress in 1974.

“These numbers concur with everything I have been hearing from Mainers on the campaign trail,” said Scontras. “Citizens of the 1st Congressional District and all across America are fed up with the ‘business as usual’ attitude in government, and are looking for a bold new type of leadership to emerge from within the citizenry to get America back on track.” 

This all-time low rate of approval is even lower than the 21% approval rating received by the outgoing Republican Majority Congress in December of last year.  After an election that many interpreted to be a referendum on the Republican leadership, these recent numbers reveal that public discontent with our federal government moves well across party lines.

“There has never been a more important time for political outsiders, members of the rank and file of the citizenry as Ronald Reagan called them, to get involved in the political process. Maine needs a Congressman who understands that the best solutions to our most pressing problems come from Maine’s citizens themselves, not from career politicians and government bureaucrats. That is why I am running for Congress,” concluded Scontras.

Dean Scontras is a third generation Mainer who resides in Eliot with his wife Dawn and two children, Jack and Zoe. A graduate of the University of Maine, Dean has built a successful business career in information technology.
 
To view the full Gallup Poll results, visit http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=28456.

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