About

I became a Conservative after 9/11. I had been 18 years-old for three months when the Twin Towers fell, and that day forever changed the way I viewed the world. I realized for the first time just how precious, rare, and vulnerable the liberty I had always known actually is. A few months after my 19th birthday, I read C.S. Lewis’s ‘Mere Christianity’ and was convinced that the Holy Bible really was the Word of God for mankind. There in my bedroom, alone, I trusted Jesus Christ to save me from my sin, death, and hell. I have been walking with the Lord ever since, and I am certain that authentic Conservatism and true Christianity will always be inextricable perspectives. Over the next few years, living and working in and around Seattle, WA, I witnessed more and more radical and extreme left-wing movements taking control. Initially, I just couldn’t understand how so many people could be so unpatriotic and anti-American in their worldviews. I remembered seeing video footage, as a kid, of young Democrats burning American flags and spitting on returning Vietnam veterans. It just hadn’t dawned on me that that kind of self-loathing, dishonorable immaturity still existed in our politics and culture. I spent the next 20 years advancing Conservatism wherever and whenever the situation called for it… and often when it didn’t. Debating and exposing liberal “progressive” ideology as the universal lie that it is (and always has been), wherever I spotted it, became a passion of mine… and something of a calling for me.

In 2021, my wife, Misty, and I began making serious plans to exit the state of Washington. We had both lived there for decades, and after the COVID 19 situation – as well as the 2020 presidential election – we came to the realization that the state had become hostile and dangerous toward people who saw the world the way we do. After multiple scouting trips, we settled in American Falls, ID, in early 2022, after falling in love with the small town (there’s one traffic light in all of Power County, and the area resembles the Greater Puget Sound area in no way, shape or form!). Our two young-adult daughters chose to stay in Western Washinton, but we hope they’ll follow us – along with our two grandchildren – to Idaho soon. I am a proud Idahoan, and even went so far as to change my phone number the day we moved into our house, just to wash as much of Washington off of me as humanly possible.

I am active in my church, and once the opportunity rose for me to become active in local Idaho politics, I took it. Six months after we settled here, Misty and I attended a Power County GOP Central Committee meeting, and by the time we left the meeting, she had been voted in the State Committeewoman, and I the Vice Chairman. We worked for a year to fill all the vacant positions in the committee, and we completed our mission, all seats were currently filled. When I began to observe how my district’s “Representatives” in Boise were consistently voting, I immediately recognized them as belonging to a certain category of politicians which I have become all too familiar with due to my many years living and working in Seattle: the RINO Class. Idahoans haven’t had to, historically, worry very much about Democrats taking over our state. But I know from personal experience that it is, in fact, Republicans In Name Only who are most responsible for a red state turning purple, then blue. When a state’s Republicans lose their Conservatism, they inevitably pave the way for Democrats to take control of the state’s politics, finances, and culture. This political inevitability is the reason I am running for the District 28A Seat in the Idaho House. If we, as Republicans, do not give our Party a conservative bath – and quickly – the future is bleak for our Gem State. I’ve experienced, firsthand, what is coming our way if the RINO Class is not exposed and defeated.

I’m pro-Constitution. That means you can count on me to protect your freedoms; your right to worship freely, to speak your mind, to assemble when, where and with whom you want. Mask and vaccine mandates represent Orwellian tyranny and are TOTALLY un-American. I will protect our children from indoctrination and damaging material. I am pro-school choice and will be a Parental Rights advocate. And of course, perhaps, the most important, protecting your 2nd Amendment rights. It is my personal belief that as free Americans we ought to be able to defend ourselves and our families with any gun we want.

It might be even more important, though, to know what I will not vote for. I will not vote for the continuous spending increases on behalf of corporate interests driving your taxes ever higher. I will vote to reduce or eliminate taxes wherever possible, including property tax, income tax and the grocery tax. I will not vote to increase the power and growth of government, state or federal.