Why am I running?  That is the first question people usually ask.  

While my time as a Commissioner in Elbert County is coming to an end, my desire to serve my fellow citizens has not.  I pledge to work to provide a government that:

·  secures the rights and freedoms of all Coloradans,

·  respects its constitutional restrictions,

·  listens, and responds, to the needs of the people, and

·  seeks always to reduce the burden on taxpayers.

Like many who live outside the Denver Metro area, I find the Colorado I once knew rapidly fading away.  The divide between those who live in the largely agricultural eastern plains and those who control the legislature has never been wider – and it seems to be growing.  If our voices are even heard, they are being ignored.  This needs to change.

I will bring over twenty years of military service and a decade of practical elected experience in local government- as a former School Board Director and current County Commissioner- to the General Assembly.