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North Brookfield man sets sights on [MA] U.S. Senate
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| Contributor | Miro |
| Last Edited | Miro Sep 13, 2012 11:02am |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Joshua Evans |
| News Date | Thursday, September 13, 2012 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Bill Cimbrelo, a North Brookfield resident, believes he has what it takes to defeat Republican Senator Scott Brown and Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren. Holding a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, fluent in Spanish; as well as English, and originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Cimbrelo doesn't have a background like your average candidate for Senate. However, that hasn't stopped him from mounting a surprise campaign out of the small Western Massachusetts town of North Brookfield.
Sitting down with Mr. Cimbrelo in his North Brookfield home, he wasted no time and made no allusions about running for Massachusetts' Junior Senate seat. “I'm not a professional politician. I have no [long-term] political aspirations to run for office.” said Cimbrelo. Identifying as socially liberal, but fiscally conservative, Cimbrelo believes that partisan politics have caused more harm than good; “Our country is being pulled apart at the seams by party politics [and] Obama and Romney, Brown and Warren, they aren't tackling any of the real issues.”
But just what issues are those? To Cimbrelo the outsourcing of jobs is one, and also one that hits close to home. Cimbrelo, who had a career in the metal finishing industries and later in system design for water purification, found both of his careers eventually outsourced to cheaper foreign labor. “None of the companies I worked for exist anymore; they've all been swallowed up” he laments. Cimbrelo, also a father, finds one in the future of college students; “We have 100,000 kids we're trying to make up for plus todays and tomorrows. The College student crisis [is] going to be much bigger than the mortgage crisis. “
As a business owner and entrepreneur, Cimbrelo hopes to integrate personal experience into the Senate to turn that around. “I ran a home remodeling business for seven years until I had to file for bankruptcy in 2007, then I ended up starting a small handy-man business and it was gone in six mont |
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