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I am running for Idaho State Representative, District 21, Seat A.

I would appreciate your support, and I am asking for your VOTE in the Republican Primary on May 15, 2012.
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More Freedom, Less Government! — This is my motto. What is the proper role of government? It is to safeguard individual freedom. For many years, the Idaho Legislature has been engaged not in protecting individual freedom, but in suppressing it. Idaho does not need more regulations, more government services, and more revenue collected by the state; instead what we need is exactly the opposite — fewer regulations, less government spending, and substantially lower taxes.

What are the most important issues facing Idaho right now? I can talk to you about my primary concerns, but I need to hear YOUR opinions on these critical issues as well. Please Contact Me with any thoughts or concerns that you may have.

City Annexation and Deannexation — Cities should not be allowed to annex or deannex territory without a 2/3 majority vote of those who live or own property within the affected area. Many people feel strongly about living within the borders of a city, and their wishes should not be casually disregarded by cities and their governments. The State of Idaho should pass legislation to protect individuals and businesses from being annexed or deannexed against their will. This reform is long overdue.
The Economy — Idaho needs more jobs, and the best way to ensure that we get them is to lower taxes and eliminate regulations. We can make Idaho the most business-friendly state in the nation simply by removing the many regulatory and financial obstacles that the state has placed in the path of creating and expanding businesses.
State Sovereignty — James Madison said, "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite." The State of Idaho is being dictated to and generally denied its sovereignty by an overbearing and out-of-control Federal Government that has grown significantly beyond the bounds which were intended by the framers of our Constitution.
Individual Freedom — For far too long, our Country has been drifting away from the principles of individual freedom and personal liberty that it was founded to protect. Our State has too many regulations, requires too many licenses and permits, and places too many controls on individual choices that are none of its business.

If there is one thing that you can know about me with absolute certainty, it is that (as Milton Friedman said) "I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible."

My political philosophy most closely mirrors that of Frédéric Bastiat as laid out in his famous book, The Law. You can download The Law as an audio book here (Part 1) and here (Part 2) or as a PDF eBook here.

Frédéric Bastiat

"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain." — Frédéric Bastiat