Welcome

In 1994, I ran for Congress because our country was heading in the wrong direction. Those who were elected to serve were corrupted by their relationships with special interests, irresponsible with our money, and generally out of touch with the everyday lives of the average citizen. I thought that we had too many politicians giving lip service, and not enough public servants.

When I left Congress in 2001, we’d worked hard to eject special interests from the Capitol, balance the budget and had $155 billion surplus while cutting middle class taxes, and changed self serving laws so that our Congressional representatives had to live under the same laws every other citizen did.

Unfortunately by 2006, Washington had returned to its old ways and was not focusing on illegal immigration, renewable energy issues and the environment. More importantly, congress went on a spending spree that was and is mortgaged  our grandchildren's future. So I ran again. In short I'm running to reform our federal government.  We need to get our country back on track.

Congress has to be accountable with our money and our trust - whether they are Republican, Democrat, or Independent.

The spending by this Congress is way out of control. They have given us the biggest deficit in the history of the nation, and they have plans now to spend even more on additional bail outs, government run health care, and ever more government bureaucrats. Worse, they want to pay for this behavior with more borrowing, and more taxes on middle class Americans and small business owners! Small business is the life blood of the country.

I don't think more spending, more taxes, more government, is the answer to our current financial issues. I want less wasteful government spending, fewer taxes, smaller more efficient government, and fewer regulations that get in the way of innovation. Simply put though: we are moving the wrong direction, and if we are going to secure a future of opportunity we have to reverse course, now.