Randall Wilson's Biography
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Full Name:
Randall J. Wilson
Gender:
Male
Family:
Wife: Christine; 5 Children
Birth Date:
03/09/1971
Birth Place:
Altoona, PA
Home City:
Glasgow, PA
Religion:
Lutheran
BS, Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University, 2002
BA, LAS-Instructional Systems, Penn State University, 2001
Candidate, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, District 72, 2014
Candidate, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, District 73, 2012
No caucus information on file.
Director of Information and Technology, WTAJ, 2006-present
Member, United States Navy, 1989-1994
Member, Alpha Sigma Lambda
Member, American Legion
Member, Gallitzen Fire Wardens and Crew Members Association
Member, National Cryptologic Assocation
Member, Penn State Nittany Lion Club
Member, Reade Township Vounteer Fire Company, Station 63, Blandburg, PA
Reason for Seeking Public Office:
Our founding fathers created our constitutional republic to protect the God-given rights of the people. Government has no power to grant those rights, and no legitimate authority to take them away.
Government must enforce the law, and must ensure that the law applies equally to all. When law becomes too complex, it ceases to be a level playing field and becomes a tool used by some citizens to gain advantage over others. Government must once again be impartial, regain respect, and stop being a tool of "special interests" by ending its extensive and unnecessary meddling. The referee must stop playing the game.
Our politics today is often driven by battles over who will get the right to use the power of government to enact its agenda. Every interest group goes first to government rather than its own resources to get what it wants -- from sports stadiums to medical care to better education. We cannot be free citizens ourselves and also demand that government force our neighbors to behave as we want, and pay for what we want. If we are to be free, we must rely on our powers of leadership and persuasion to accomplish what we want, using markets and cooperation rather than taxes and coercion.
My campaign will be centered on the theme of the free citizen, and the proper role of a limited constitutional republic.
My agenda will be to responsibly and prudently reduce the size, scope and power of the state government, and return power, money, and prestige to the individual citizen where possible, and otherwise to local levels of government.