It is easy to see why Shar has been asked to HEADLINE “We Built This” night in Tampa. She is a woman, latino, and a successful small business person who built her business all alone without any government support whatsoever. A THREE-fer!!! (If only she was wheelchair bound, and/or jewish!!)
…designated the Tuesday evening session “We Built This!” The session is meant as a rebuke to Obama’s “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen” speech.
Among the featured speakers will be Sher Valenzeula, candidate for lieutenant governor of Delaware, and a small businesswoman who, along with her husband, “started an upholstery business that makes padding for baseball umpires and military vests worn by members of the Israeli military,” according to a Fox News report.
Only she built her entire business on government grants and subsidies. I hope that side of the story gets out. To that end, I’ll be trying to put up a post on dkos that has a little punch.
If anyone can add to this commenters list of Shar’s takings from the eeeeeeeeeeeeeevil government, I’d be much oblidged.
Here is a list of what FSM has reveived. I did not include Federal contracts and their amounts. I can look that up if there is enough interest.
*Federal $650,000 Small Business Administration (SBA) 504 loan.
*Federally funded Service Corp of Retired Executives (SCORE)
*Federal and Delaware funded Small Business Technology and Development Center
*Federal $20,000 Express loan
*U.S. DoD and the Delaware Economic Development Office funded Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC)
*$96,500 SBA backed 7(a) loanGranted these are government programs/services that are specifically designed to support small business, but under anyone’s small government concept, they would have not been available to her.
…without the government give her a hand up, it is not clear she would be where she is today. We’ll have to see what the messages coming from her campaign and how the align with the support she has received.
It would be awesome if Delaware could help “we built it” night blow up in the GOP’s face.