I currently live in Casper, WY. I have lived here nearly 6 years. I was born in Truckee, CA which is near Lake Tahoe.

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I am a husband, father, business person, and community volunteer. While in business, I managed various roles from account servicing, compliance, and delivering incentive payments to internal and external business partners. In this role, I worked with auditing staff from all levels of government. I also managed staff in each of the roles I held.

I have also been involved in various community service efforts. I was the head of a mens group within my church, which on an annual basis put on a fundraiser for a local food bank and participated in a program to provide winter coats to children in need. I am volunteer National Ski Patroller up at Casper Mountain. Our role is to maintain safety and provide basic first aid and safe transport of injured skiers to next level care.

The biggest challenges for Wyoming is reliance on mineral revenues which tend to fluctuate, the need to diversify economic opportunities, and spending at all levels of government. I would start by making sure our regulatory statutes are not contributing to these challenges and we are promoting policy to encourage opportunities. We need to closely watch spending to make sure essential services are the first to be funded without increasing taxes to support them. And challenge government to look at different ways to provide services more efficiently and cost effective - ie. Internet Delivery, New Technologies. I want to demonstrate to the public that government provides high level of service in the most efficient possible way.

The first effort is looking at the ability to deliver services. I believe Telehealth is one option that can assist and we want to make sure there are no impediments in the use of this option. Another is looking into options to incentivize traveling nurses and other specialty providers that will encourage them to come provide services in Wyoming.

Finally, we need to look at underserved areas and find ways to encourage healthcare delivery - perhaps tax incentives, targeting loan forgiveness, and promotion of rural medical training tracks.

I don't support efforts to sell or transfer public land in Wyoming.

I support the most recent legislative efforts of property tax relief as they have attempted to balance relief to the tax payer while providing funding for local revenue needs. The legislature has offset cuts with backfill of other revenue. I would look to make these measures more permanent which will help the state and local governments plan growth within a consistent framework.

I think the Legislature should create an economic, regulatory and educational environment that would incentivize business to develop in Wyoming and encourage existing business to strongly consider moving operations and jobs to our state. And I think there are many opportunities to do so. I think the current method used has not shown solid results and it appears all involved realize change in this process is necessary.

I believe in complete transparency when it comes to campaign donations. I think the current Wyoming system works well with the exception of the timing. I think the timing of disclosure be shown earlier than a week before in-person voting.