I am a lifelong Ohioan, husband, father of three daughters, Army National Guard veteran, and technology professional. I grew up in Loveland and eventually bought my childhood home to raise my own family. I served eight years as an Air Defense Artillery officer, including deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and today I work in technology after building a career in the insurance industry.
I am running because I want my daughters, and every family in Clermont County, to inherit a government that is accountable to the people it serves. I believe power needs rules, no matter who holds it. Government can become too powerful and too distant from ordinary people, but so can corporations, monopolies, political parties, and other institutions with enough influence to write the rules for themselves.
Government should be the referee, not a player. Protect our rights, stop cheating, demand a fair return when public resources are used, and then get out of the way. Public money should produce measurable public value, decisions should be made as close as practical to the people affected by them, and government should intervene in our lives only when there is a real harm it can clearly identify.
I am not running to defend one political team against another. I am running because Ohio needs more choices, more accountability, and representatives willing to judge ideas by whether they actually work.
My basic promise is simple, protect the field, enforce the rules, stop cheating, and let people build.
Our elections should give voters more choices and make representatives more accountable to the people they serve. I support repealing Ohio’s ban on ranked-choice voting, replacing closed partisan primaries with an open primary where the top four candidates advance to a ranked-choice general election, and making ballot access fair for independent and third-party candidates. I will fight for fair maps that respect communities rather than protecting politicians.
I also believe representation itself needs reform. The U.S. House has remained at 435 members while our population has grown dramatically. I support expanding the House using a Wyoming Rule-style system so congressional districts are smaller and representatives are closer to the people they serve. If Congress refuses to act, I believe Ohio should also seriously consider ratifying Article the First, the original congressional apportionment amendment proposed by the First Congress.
Election rules should not be designed to help one party or another. They should give voters meaningful choices, require candidates to earn broad support, and keep government accountable to the people.
Make Ohio More Affordable for Families.
Ohio should make it easier to raise a family, get healthcare, and give children permanent homes. I support eliminating major out-of-pocket maternity costs, creating sustainable paid family and medical leave, expanding safe childcare options, and making adoption assistance available when families actually face the bills, not months later.
We also need more doctors in underserved Ohio communities. I support scholarships for medical students who commit to practicing in shortage areas, stronger healthcare price transparency, and policies that reduce unnecessary administrative costs.
Families should also be trusted with difficult medical decisions. I support access to contraception, fertility treatment, IVF, miscarriage care, and the reproductive rights Ohio voters placed in the state constitution. Government should protect families and expand their options, not interfere in private medical decisions or create unnecessary pregnancy registries.
Clermont County is growing, but growth should improve life for the people already herenot leave residents paying for poor planning, traffic, or private development deals.
I support revitalizing Eastgate as a mixed-use community center, pushing for measurable results on State Route 32, and expanding housing choices such as starter homes, townhomes, apartments, senior housing, and redevelopment of aging commercial areas. Local communities should remain in control of zoning, while state and local agencies provide clearer rules, faster coordination, and predictable permitting.
I also want property-tax reform that provides meaningful relief without destabilizing schools, police, fire departments, libraries, and other local services. That includes measuring the reforms Ohio has already enacted, considering an income-based circuit breaker for homeowners facing excessive tax burdens, and making tax bills much clearer about what caused an increase.
Finally, when developers or corporations receive public subsidies or tax incentives, taxpayers should know exactly what they are getting in return. Public money should come with measurable promises, transparent costs, and clawbacks when those promises are not kept.
Ohio schools should prepare students for adulthood while protecting classrooms, supporting teachers, and giving families meaningful choices.
I support putting classroom instruction and special education ahead of bureaucracy, reducing redundant paperwork and unnecessary testing, and measuring student growth rather than relying too heavily on a single test score. Local parents, teachers, school boards, and communities should retain meaningful control over their schools.
We also need to recognize that college is not the only path to success. Ohio should strengthen career and technical education, apprenticeships, industry credentials, and partnerships among schools, community colleges, unions, and local employers so students can see real career opportunities before taking on significant debt.
School planning should also be part of how we manage growth. New housing and economic development affect enrollment, transportation, facilities, and property taxes, and communities need better coordination before those pressures become crises.
Finally, Ohio should prepare for changes in the federal government's role in education. Essential services—especially special education—should not be disrupted because Washington changes funding, programs, or administrative responsibilities. Ohio should understand those dependencies now and have a continuity plan ready.
Ohio needs more dependable energy to support families, manufacturing, new technology, and economic growth. I support an all-of-the-above strategy that includes nuclear power, natural gas, solar, storage, transmission, efficiency, and emerging technologies based on reliability, safety, and cost, not political labels.
I want Ohio to become a leader in advanced nuclear energy while protecting taxpayers from failed or speculative projects. We should also strengthen the electrical grid and require unusually large new energy users to pay the infrastructure costs they create rather than shifting those costs onto households and small businesses.
Data centers and artificial intelligence can bring real economic opportunity, but Ohio should not write blank checks to attract them. Large data centers should pay their own way, disclose their electricity and water demands, respect local zoning and natural resources, and receive tax incentives only when they provide measurable public benefits such as jobs, payroll, investment, and local revenue.
Ohio should welcome new technology while regulating actual risks rather than the AI label itself. The highest-risk AI systems should meet reasonable safety, cybersecurity, transparency, and accountability standards without burdening ordinary businesses, startups, classrooms, or open-source development.
Finally, when Ohio's energy resources generate private wealth, taxpayers and producing communities deserve a fair return.
My goal is simple, produce more energy here, build the infrastructure we need, protect consumers from unnecessary costs, and keep more of the economic benefit here in Ohio.
Government should protect people from violence, fraud, abuse, and other real harms while respecting individual liberty, due process, and the decisions voters make.
I support reserving prison for people who genuinely threaten public safety while using diversion, restitution, treatment, and supervised alternatives for appropriate first-time, low-level, nonviolent offenses. Ohio should also respect the voters who legalized adult-use marijuana, eliminate unnecessary criminal penalties for otherwise lawful adult conduct, and automatically clear eligible records for conduct the state has chosen to legalize.
I strongly support the Second Amendment and oppose broad bans on commonly owned firearms or government gun registries. At the same time, responsible gun ownership means encouraging training, secure storage, suicide prevention, and voluntary options for families dealing with a temporary crisis. Enforcement should focus on violence, threats, trafficking, and people who pose a demonstrated danger.
Government itself must also be accountable. I support enforcing Ohio's one-subject rule, requiring clear fiscal and local-impact information before major legislation passes, making subsidies and tax incentives transparent, and using clawbacks when recipients fail to deliver what taxpayers were promised.
I also believe government should collect as little personal information as necessary. Technologies such as automated license-plate readers can help police find actual suspects without creating permanent records of where innocent people travel. Local decisions should remain local whenever possible, and as a representative I will explain my votes, maintain public office hours, and work with anyone, who has a good idea for Clermont County.
A mental-health crisis should not make someone disappear from the people trying to help them. Ohio should protect patient privacy and individual rights while making it easier for people to designate a trusted crisis contact who can remain informed through admission, transfer, discharge, and follow-up care.
Mental-health evaluations should consider the full available history of a crisis, not just how someone appears during a brief interview. Families, caregivers, first responders, prior records, and recent treatment history can provide important information, while treatment decisions must remain subject to professional judgment, due process, and the rights of the patient.
Ohio also needs a stronger continuum of local care, including crisis response, stabilization, outpatient treatment, medication access, transportation, and reliable follow-up after discharge. Court-ordered treatment should remain a last resort with meaningful legal protections.
For veterans, I want specialized support available closer to home. Ohio should partner with the VA, county veterans organizations, and local communities to expand access to Vet Center counseling through donated community space, mobile services, secure telehealth locations, and eventually permanent locations where demand supports them.
Whether someone is experiencing a psychiatric crisis or struggling after military service, the goal should be the same: connect people to care early, preserve their dignity and rights, and make sure they do not fall through the cracks.
Have questions or suggestions? I would love to hear from you!
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