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Woburn - Dr. Gerry Dembrowski of Woburn is starting to put the pieces in place for a run at the 7th Congressional District seat occupied for the past 34 years by Rep. Edward Markey.

Dembrowski, a 1982 graduate of Woburn High School, is planning a formal announcement in December but knows it is never easy to unseat a long-standing Democrat in this state and is doing what he can now to get his campaign message out.

While he will be running on the Republican ticket, Dembrowski said his campaign will be more about changing the “politics as usual” which has taken over federal government and has proven not to be working time and time again.

Pointing to soaring deficits and failed economic stimulus plans, Dembrowski said, “Somebody has got to do something.”

He states, This congressional campaign is not to contrast Democrat or Republican ideologies. Nor to question conservative, moderate or liberal principles. It will not attempt to mesmerize you with duplicitous political language that will insult your intelligence.”

While Democrats and Republicans have been “building up walls” for years, “this race is all about us. We are all Americans. We need to look at the long run,” he says.

Dembrowski notes Markey is entrenched with the current administration where the national debt has soared spurred up by failed recovery and TARP bailouts, all while unemployment numbers continue to climb, hovering just below 9 percent in Massachusetts alone.

“Rep. Edward Markey voted ‘yes’ on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 costing you and our families $800 billion. He voted ‘yes’ for both TARP bills (H.R. 384) costing you and our families up to $2.5 trillion,” Dembrowski says.

“For every action there is a consequence. You and I are experiencing the devastating consequences of the federally sponsored Fannie Mae subprime mortgage catastrophe. Even though our actions did not cause the financial meltdown, you and our families are paying for it in failed TARP bailouts, failed stimulus packages, lost jobs and 10.2 (nationally at the time of the interview) percent unemployment rates,” Dembrowski states.

The $12 trillion national debt puts “you, our children and our grand children $110,000 in debt,” he states.

Dembrowski says he favors individual/family tax credits for insurance premiums to put more money back in the pockets of taxpayers and increasing tax credits for business payrolls and lower unemployment taxes to stimulate the economy.

Dembrowski is also critical of the government’s handling of Medicare and the current efforts to expand health care coverage to all.

Over the past 33 years, Medicare liabilities have risen to almost $13 trillion and could b bankrupt in the next seven years, Dembrowski states.

“The Health Care bill includes numerous taxpayer funded subsidies. The revised version of the ‘public option,’ called the ‘national health exchange’ creates a new bureaucracy called the ‘Health Benefits Advisory Committee,’ with in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and will dictate mandates to insurers, individuals and employer health coverages,” Dembrowski says.

Dembrowski says he favors tort and frivolous law suit reform to decrease practitioner and hospital overhead while working with hospitals and health care providers on economically sound mandates and policy changes on insurers to maximize benefits.

“Government is already too big. You and I have to deal with the outcome of its onus,” he states.

Dembrowski is also critical of Markey as Chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

“Rep. Markey last year introduced H.R. 39 legislation that made the 1.2-million-acre- costal plain (in Alaska) a permanently protected wilderness. This would be about a ’20 percent increase in oil and would likely mean lower gas prices. It also translates into 27 million gallons of gasoline and diesel every day,” Dembrowski says.

“As you Congressman, I am all for protecting the environment. Except when government policies, misguided bureaucrats and special interests have artificially inflated energy prices and cause unnecessary burden on families already struggling to pay higher fuel prices to get to work and to heat their homes,” he states.

Born in Cambridge, Dembrowski and his family moved to Woburn at a young age, and he attended Woburn schools.

His medical offices on Wyman Street are located next to the family home.

After a career in junior and minor league hockey, Dembrowski earned an associate’s degree from Middlesex Community College and a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from Salem State College.

He earned his doctorate degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in San Jose, Calif.

A licensed primary care provider in both California and Massachusetts, Dr. Dembrowski was a health care provider for the Sonoma Valley Hospital Integrative Medicine Program before returning to Woburn some 11 years ago to open a private practice.

Dr. Dembrowski currently resides in the Washington Street area with his wife Margerie (Geronimo).

This will be Dembrowski’s first foray into the political ring and faces a daunting task getting his name out in the far-reaching 7th Congressional District which stretches from Framingham along the Massachusetts Turnpike to Woburn and Winchester along Route 128 and back to Revere and Chelsea outside of Boston.

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