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Licensed Broker, Sternes Realty, 2007-present

Commander, United States Navy (Active and Reserve), 1995-present

No organizational membership information on file.

Awards:

-Joint Meritorious Service Medal, NATO Train Mission Afghanistan, USN (2013)
-Overseas Service Medal, TF Phoenix, US Navy (2013)
-Afghanistan Campaign Medal, CSTC-A, US Navy (2013)
-Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, Naval Medical Center, San Diego, USN (2012)
-Meritorious Service Medal, TF Phoenix/CJTF/ARSIC-W, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, US Army (2009)
-Afghanistan Campaign Medal, CSTC-A, US Navy (2009)
-NATO Metal, TF Phoenix, US Navy (2009)
-Overseas Service Medal, TF Phoenix, US Navy (2009)
-Joint Unit Commendation Medal, Combined Joint Task Force Phoenix, Afghanistan (2008 & 2009)
-Armed Forces Reserve Medal, US Navy (2007, 2008, 2013)
-Navy Rifleman Medal, 1st Army, 2nd Training Brigade, US Army / Expeditionary Combat Readiness Center, USN (2007)
-Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, USN (2006)
-Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, US Navy (2005)
-Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, 2nd Force Service Support Group, US Marine Corps (2002)
-National Defense Service Medal, US Navy (2001)
-Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Naval Hospital Bremerton, USN (1997)
-Navy Pistol Medal, Submarine Base, Bangor, USN (1996)
-Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation, Naval Hospital, Bremerton, USN (1998)
-National Defense Service Medal, US Navy, (1989)

Personal Hero and Why:

My role models include Presidents George Washington and Ronald Reagan.

Both presidents served with humility and personal integrity. Their sincere religions faith guided their life and choices.

They and our founders understood what make America great - freedom to win or lose and control our destiny, without interference of political elites or government.

Priority Issues:

PHILOSOPHY

I offer the voter a thought-out perspective of government, society, and freedom. My study of history is clear: When government stops walking beside us and starts riding our backs, liberty and freedom is traded for more regulations, higher taxes, slower growth, lower wages, and frustration.

Let?s remember the bigger government gets, the smaller The People get.

I'd LIKE TO ACCOMPLISH

First ? Get government out of our way. The role of state government is to keep us safe, maintain our roads and public lands, and collect a pool of tax money to educate our children, and help the elderly and the truly needy.

Second ? Get Idaho?s land back. The Federal government owns two-thirds of Idaho. Remember the Federal housing projects in New York City? Can you say crime, drugs, and poverty?
The Federal government is locking up our lands and making Idaho another housing project. They are restricting our economic growth, our prosperity, and our good paying jobs. They are also limiting its recreational use.

Third ? Make Idaho the go-to state for business. Businesses hire employees when they are expanding and need someone to do a task. Nothing more.
The best ?jobs program? is a low regulatory environment with simple, predictable, and reasonable (low) taxes. Idaho is competing with other states ? so we have to be the best state for business!

Fourth ? Make schools compete for students and educational dollars. Money in the form of vouchers should follow the student, not a building or district. When parents can choose schools, no matter if they?re public, private, or another district, that?s when schools will improve.

Public schools teach political correctness. The only way for schools to teach your values is through true competition and choice.
Why is it that school boards will fire the football coach for one or two losing seasons, but they fail to follow that same principle when it comes to administrators and teachers?
Common core needs to go. No one has ever innovated or succeeded by following centralized, bureaucratic rules.

Fifth ? Make patients shop for health care and hospitals and doctors compete for that business. Health care costs will never improve until we stop letting someone else pay the bills.
There are many ?money pooling? ideas that would accomplish this, but costs will not come down until people begin to shop for health care and doctors and hospitals are able to compete for a patient?s business.

Reason for Seeking Public Office:

I researched the representatives in my district and they earned D and F grades on the 2016 (legislative session) Idaho Freedom Index.

The incumbent in Idaho District 25A, Rep. Bell, earned an F(-) and has served for 26 years. She was only one of two Republicans who voted against the permit-less concealed carry bill.

I am running because I believe a true limited-government conservative should serve the district.