Occupation: Self-Employed Private Investigator.

Occupational Background: Police Officer; Property Manager; Locksmith.

Educational Background: University of Oregon BS, Infantry Officer Candidate School, Fort Benning, GA.

Prior Governmental Experience: Infantry Officer, U.S. Army.

LESS GOVERNMENT & BETTER GOVERNMENT

All problems don't require legislation.
Over reliance on government has contributed to ill-considered legislation with unintended consequences and to a bloated bureaucracy. I want you to keep more of your money and reduce your need to deal with bureaucrats. I think that if you are competent enough to support yourself and pay taxes, you're competent to make rational decisions about your own life.

Administrators who reward mediocrity and fear excellence have largely eroded the spirit of public service from our state government. We're creating drones instead of workers. We need to do much better. By implementing some simple, structural reforms, we can have a government that serves us rather than one that aggravates us.

Educational excellence can be achieved if we remember that schools are the means to the end, not the end itself. Legislators need the guts to take on the entrenched advocates of mediocrity and embrace the innovation they resist.

Immigration is now a state issue.
We need a state government that stops enabling the breaking of immigration laws and instead, cooperates with the federal government to maintain our national security. We need to protect the integrity of voter registration and driver licenses. But we also need to address the real labor shortage that exists. Once we secure our border, we need a rational system for qualifying and identifying non-citizens who want to work here, and a fair path to citizenship, without line jumpers.

These changes aren't pie in the sky. They can be pie on your plate. With open honest debate, unrestricted by political correctness, we can accomplish them.

Don't expect change from the incumbent. Change can only come if you change the way you vote. I'm running to give you that opportunity.

(This information furnished by Bill Lioio for State Rep.)