Member, City Council, Osawatomie, Kansas

Candidate, Kansas House of Representatives

Candidate, United States Senate, 2014

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Number of Grandchildren:

Seventeen

Reason for Seeking Public Office:

I am running because, as a citizen of the United States, I've grown weary of sitting on the sidelines watching the nation I love and call home unraveling. I am running because I am sick and tired of seeing our nation's Constitution, our freedoms and rights, assaulted and undermined by an un-American socialistic agenda that's taken root in our nation's capitol. I am running because I am tired of seeing our nation impoverished by burdensome government regulations, by oppressive taxation and irresponsible mismanagement of our nation's purse strings. Like the rest of our nation's citizenry, I see an over-extended, excessively-wasteful, intrusive government in Washington that "we the people" can no longer afford. I see a government that has more concern about perpetuating itself, about continuing wasteful spending of the people's money on government frivolity, about spying on "we the people" and the world, than it has about serving and promoting the well-being and happiness of our nation's citizenry.

I am running because I am tired of the politics of lies, broken promises, media manipulation, political corruption and greed. I am angry seeing the creation of a nation of dependency on government handouts, a White House that's inventing a government never envisioned by our founding fathers --a government that's forgotten its reason for being.

Rest assured, I am not interested in becoming another member of Washington's "good old boy" cronyism. I am not interested in protecting what belongs to the Federal government or Federal courts, but in protecting what belongs to "we the people" --our nation's Constitution. The Constitution is "we the people" authorizing the existence and continuation of the Federal government in Washington. "We the people" have not bestowed upon Washington any right to tamper with, undermine, set aside, or redefine for us what belongs to "we the people" --our national Constitution.

Send me to Washington and I go with only one agenda, one promise. I will fight for the rights and freedoms of my fellow citizens and aggressively defend our national Constitution. In Congress I may have only one vote, but this grandma is going to make a lot of noise.