Continuing our series of introductory articles about 2022 political candidates: Harold Earls, a previously announced Republican who’s filed for the 6th Congressional District seat.
(Here’s his campaign website.)
One of four who’s announced on the GOP side (profiles here of Meagan Hanson and Jake Evans) to challenge Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath, Earls lives in Roswell and is a former Army officer, having served as an Airborne Ranger.
He’s a graduate Fellowship Christian Academy in Roswell and the U.S. Military Academy, where was captain of its baseball team. He also has led a group an Army combat team and veteran amputee on trips to Mt. Everest.
Those experiences were the subject of a book “A Higher Calling: Pursuing Love, Faith and Mt. Everest for a greater purpose.” He and his co-author and wife, Rachel Earls, run a digital media business in Roswell and are the parents to two sons.
He was a fellow for former Georgia U.S. Rep. Rob Woodall and was a guard commander of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
More on Earls and his background can be found here.
After another GOP candidate, Eric Welsh, pulled out in July, Earls said that the two of them were “not part of the Good Ol’ Boys Club.’ Welsh wanted to make a difference here in Georgia and was not a political opportunist waiting on favorable district lines.”
Earls continued that “over the last few years, there has been a growing disrespect in our government for our country and those who serve and have served to protect it. This makes me sick. Congress has become a melting pot of weak leaders who don’t care about you, me, or the United States. I am here to change that. I will lead. I will stand for our values, and I will stand up for you and your family. That is my promise.”
Earls said he will advocate for smaller government, and deplored trillions of dollars of American debt and noted that China is the country’s largest debt collector.
“That means that my two little toddlers are going to bear the burden of this generation’s failure to address balancing our budget at the behest of our biggest adversary,” he said.
On immigration, Earls said he supports a “merit-based system where the best and brightest who want to enter America have the chance to do so and allows us to keep bad actors out of the country.”
Earls said he wants to make permanent the Tax Cuts & Job Act to foster business innovation and also supports school choice options.
But he said he and his wife have had their business affected by occasional demonetizing by YouTube, where they have more than 540,000 subscribers.
Earls said he supports revisions to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to encourage “free speech, privacy, safety, competition and honesty.”
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