Story Tools

Email this story | Print this story

Indexes

Today's Stories

Last 7 Days

Top Blogs

• Lodi resident who started prayer debate comes forward

• City plans $200,000 in server upgrades

• Should Downtown Lodi merchants be open Sundays?

• Lodian Robert Beadles hopes to win Jerry McNerney's Congress seat as GOP candidate

• Danville resident Elizabeth Emken seeks Republican nomination

• San Joaquin Fair officials concerned about losing horse racing

• Regional Roundup

• Galt meeting to help town's cash-strapped, unemployed residents

February 8th, 2010

• Public Meetings

• Locals pick best, most memorable Super Bowl commercials

• Regional Roundup

February 6th, 2010

• The Home Depot hopes to join Costco at Reynolds Ranch

• Meet Larry, Curly and Moe

• Baboon business

• Regional Roundup

• Several Lodi venues let you watch the Super Bowl in style

• Lodi Library celebrates 100 years of serving the community

• Culinary craft

February 5th, 2010

• Kids, teachers help Haiti by collecting pennies for Learning Link

• Lodi, Galt students reach out to help Haiti earthquake survivors

• Tasered suspect claims he is Yosemite Sam

• Hours of sweat and work go into putting on crab feeds

• Things looking up for state's real estate

• Correction

• Regional Roundup

• Stray bullet strikes Lodi home; police suspect gang activity may be factor

February 4th, 2010

• Managers at Geweke Toyota answer questions about recall

• Lodi City Council votes to replace play structure at Century Park

• Lodi extends ban on pot shops for another year

• Mokelumne River triathlon set for June

• Family, friends to run half-marathon in memory of Galt family

February 3rd, 2010

• Correction

• Regional Roundup

• Delta College trustees again collide over stipend committee

• Lodi-area senators Dave Cox, Lois Wolk admit to gifts; Tom Berryhill case pending

• Lodi Unified School District president issues warning to speakers over cuts

• Galt City Council avoids budget cuts — for now

• New Lodi Memorial Hospital emergency room opens to the public without a hitch

• Bad bugs, weeds are hot topics at Grape Day

February 2nd, 2010

• Big rig plows 7 cars

• Local business leaders say tourism, Costco, Home Depot may play roles in city's future

• Former Lodian Erica Davis is first paraplegic woman to summit Kilimanjaro

• Jumpers across California

• Correction

• Regional Roundup

• No snow leopards, otters for Micke Grove

• McNerney leads in campaign cash

• Police: Train victim was a Lodi teen

February 1st, 2010

• Find cuddly alpacas not too far from Lodi

• Public Meetings

• Patients can expect faster, better service when Lodi Memorial Hospital's new emergency room opens

• Man killed by Amtrak train in Lodi

The following stories have received the most reader comments during the last 7 days.

• Will terrorists be given Miranda warnings? (72)
• President Obama's first year (67)
• Lodi Unified School District president issues warning to speakers over cuts (64)
• Local business leaders say tourism, Costco, Home Depot may play roles in city's future (60)
• Islamic symbol in mosaic — what is all the fuss? (49)
• Writer comments on Neely column (42)
• The Home Depot hopes to join Costco at Reynolds Ranch (41)
• Many reject the politics of 'no' (41)
• Police: Train victim was a Lodi teen (31)
• Time to shed the convenient sham of 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy (31)

ADVERTISEMENT

Lodian Robert Beadles hopes to win Jerry McNerney's Congress seat as GOP candidate

Republican challengers to Rep. Jerry McNerney are coming out of the woodwork. At least eight challengers have filed for the 11th Congressional District seat, including two who announced their candidacy on Monday.

Robert Beadles, a self-employed businessman from Lodi, is one of the candidates who announced on Monday that he wants the Republican nomination.

---

---

Beadles, 32, works with state, federal and county agencies on road projects. His company, RBI on South Sacramento Street, is a construction safety services company.

He believes he is the best candidate to replace McNerney, in part because he successfully got himself off welfare and made a financial success of himself.

An 18-year Lodi resident, Beadles graduated from Liberty High School, a continuation school in Lodi, got married at 17 and had a son who was born prematurely because he had an irregular heartbeat. Beadles said he attended San Joaquin Delta College, worked 10 hours a day on three jobs while in college and depended on food stamps, welfare and Medi-Cal.

He now has an olive orchard in addition to his road infrastructure business, and he wrote a book on how to become wealthy.

Beadles said that he and like-minded candidates are needed in Congress to turn the country around from what he calls a depression, not a recession.

"It's 1929 all over again," he said. "It hasn't come full circle yet."

The way to cure the country's financial ills is to examine every single federal agency and find out how tax dollars are spent. Congress shouldn't assess any more taxes until it is determined how existing tax dollars are being spent.

Beadles and his wife, Nicole, have two sons, Aaron, 14, and Kyle, 9. They also have four dogs.

For more information, visit www.robertbeadles.org.

Contact reporter Ross Farrow at rossf@lodinews.com.