One-on-One with David Christian, Republican for US Senate

David Christian

David Christian’s background is the first thing that sets him apart from the other five Republicans running for US Senate.  At the age of 17, he convinced his mother to let him join the Army.  He was one of the youngest most highly-decorated officers in the Vietnam War. 

After returning home and rehabilitating his battlefield injuries, Christian became a businessman and veterans’ advocate.  He’s alarmed by the 12.1% unemployment rate for post-9/11 veterans.  “If they can drive a tank and fly a helicopter, we can get them into a job,” Christian tells us.

He believes in retooling and retraining American workers for the jobs of the 21^st century, but says the biggest obstacle to job growth is over-regulation from Washington DC.  “If we had the regulations in place that we have today… we wouldn’t have had a Henry Ford; we wouldn’t have had a Carnegie; we wouldn’t have had Edison.”  In the US Senate, Christian wants to fight for a moratorium on government regulations. 

The Bucks County resident serves as a business consultant and president of a defense manufacturing company in Northeast Philadelphia.  He was recently in central Asia, where he saw gasoline selling for just 32-cents a gallon.  “We have to look at oil in the soil here in Pennsylvania,” Christian says.  He believes it will bring billions of dollars in investments and tens of thousands of jobs.   

 Christian believes Washington DC needs more leaders with his gumption.  “It doesn’t matter if your neighbor is a Democrat, Republican, or a one-eyed horn toad, you should be out there fighting for them, because they’re an American,” he tells Radio PA.  “We’re Americans first and foremost.”

Radio PA has reached out to all five candidates running for the GOP nomination for US Senate.  We’ve already spoken with Sam Rohrer, Marc Scaringi and Steve Welch.  You can catch all of the long-form interviews on Radio PA Roundtable.