I am running for State Representative, Pos. 1 in the 28th District, the same seat I ran for in 2010.  In 2010, the legislature faced large budget deficits and struggled to pay for priorities like education. Two years later, it’s worse.  We have not replaced the failed leadership in Olympia that created a perennial financial crisis, continues to raise taxes on working families, and strangles the ability of small business to create jobs. 

    I grew up and my wife, Laurie, and I raised our sons here in the 28th. It is my life-long dream to represent the community in which I delivered newspapers as a kid and coached my sons’ U.P. community baseball teams.  

   As an owner and attorney of a small law firm, I love helping small businesses and individuals when they get in a tight legal bind and need a problem solver.  I have won in every state court and federal court, including the U.S. Supreme Court.  I will bring to the Legislature that same passion for the underdog and defend taxpayers, business owners and everyone else I have the privilege of representing by fighting for a smaller, effective government that absolutely lives within its means.