Politics & Government

Holliston's Mike Stopa Announces Fifth District Candidacy

This will be Stopa's second congressional race, in 2010 he ran for the 3rd district seat.

by Sean O'Donnell

Holliston resident and Harvard nanophysicist Mike Stopa announced that he will be running to fill Ed Markey's vacated 5th district seat this week.

According to a press release on Stopa's website he is a life-long conservative Republican.

Massachusetts is the ultimate high-tech state,” Stopa says, “and the 5th District in particular is home to medical device and pharmaceutical companies, nanoelectronic and sensor start-ups and advanced energy concerns – not to mention being home to some of the best universities in the world. We need a Representative who not only grasps the technology but who also understands the free market; who understands, for instance, that taxing innovation in medical devices gets you less of it.”

Stopa and his wife live in Holliston with their four children. He says Obamacare worries him about the future of his family.

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“I really think that the day Obamacare was signed into law the life expectancy of my kids dropped by ten years. Forget the increased insurance premiums and the death panels, when we start moving to a top-down, Soviet style health research industry we will surely see the end of the kind of life-extending and life-enhancing medical miracles which we have come to take for granted over the last century.”

Stopa's website also outlines his beliefs on illegal immigration and discusses his congressional run in 2010.

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