Why I'm Running

I am running for Congress because of my children. As a husband and father, I can no longer sit back and hope that someone else will take care of the mess career politicians have wrought on our state and nation. The out of control spending of the people’s hard earned tax paid money has to stop. The deficit is no longer a real number, but a play thing to be used for pet projects and social engineering of the elites in Washington D.C. They have long forgotten what it means to be good stewards of the people’s money nor care how it will effect future generations. When I was an officer of Marines, I would always teach my Marines—like I was taught—that wherever we went, we had to leave the place better off than the way we found it. I’ve carried this belief with me outside the Marine Corps as well. Every generation has been given an America better than what was given them. My mother and father passed this legacy of leaving a country better off to their children as well. Our current Congressman and his like minded friends in Congress have raised the specter that my children will inherit a land less prosperous and less free for the first time in our great country’s history. This is unacceptable. Congress needs to start acting like all Michiganders are acting by balancing its budget and only spending what it can afford to spend. The idea that we can tax and spend our way to prosperity has once again been proven a lie. Individuals and businesses need to be enabled to succeed through less taxes and less government bureaucracy. Instead we have Congress taking over ownership of private industry.

To make matters worse, Congress has bailed out their fat cat friends on Wall Street: privatizing their gains and socializing their losses. The working family’s reward for Congress’ interventions has been 15% unemployment. We need to get Michigan and America back to work, and that starts with less taxes across the board etc. To make matters worse, Congress has decided that during the country’s greatest economic crisis in almost a century, our health care system needs to be overhauled to the tune of 1.2 trillion dollars. Congress wants to take over 1/6th of the nation’s economy. Inevitably that means more control of the most intimate parts of a citizen’s life—their health care—will be decided by government—at least in part—from cradle to grave. The tipping point for me to enter this race for Congress was my son’s congenital heart defect. For the first three months of his life we prayed at his hospital bed side at the University of Michigan. After many surgeries and great care from the doctors, nurses and staff, we have our son home. This is thanks to the greatest specialized health care system in the world right here in Michigan. People travel from all over the world to have their children operated on in Michigan. Nationalized health care in any form will quickly destroy this jewel we have in Michigan. To cover 20 million uninsured, we can come up with a better plan then destroy the whole system and start over. Rational and targeted reform is the better way than rationed care. Denial of coverage because of pre-existing conditions must end. If people want to work, they should be allowed without the fear that their health care will be denied. We should never get to the point in this state or country where Michiganders have to travel to a different country to save their children’s lives. As a father of a special health care needs child, Michiganders will have an advocate in Washington for their children.

In the heart of Michigan district 7 is the city of Jackson. It is the birthplace of the Republican Party. Jackson is where my campaign is headquartered. I aim to make Jackson the rebirth place of the Republican Party. The Republican Party must get back to its core values of fiscal discipline, less government, and more freedom. I bring new leadership for a revitalized party. Michigan was once the arsenal of democracy. Michigan can be great again if government gets out of the way and allows it’s people to prosper. Our natural resources, schools, and people should be utilized here. We have lost too many of our best and brightest because of over burdensome taxes and an unfriendly business environment. With unafraid, bold leadership Michigan District 7 can set the spark that sets the state ablaze again.