Dedicated to Oregon Taxpayer Relief

I have been registered as an independent since 2002, because both major parties in Oregon are either thoroughly in the grip of powerful special interest groups or are too afraid of the major media to take courageous stands on any matter that is controversial or might endanger their reelection.

It is my goal to limit the growth of government spending and taxation so as to leave as much money as possible in the hands of the people who earn it. I want to create a tax system that treats all citizens fairly and equally, regardless of their income level.

I believe, as the founders of this nation believed, that the right to own private property is the cornerstone of all liberty. To further that belief, I have worked to prevent government from taking any citizens property or controlling the use of any citizen's property without paying just compensation to the property owner.

I have made a lot of enemies as I have worked towards these goals. I have challenged the excesses of the public employee retirement system. I have tried to stop public employee unions from buying and controlling both sides of the collective bargaining table. I have tried to stop them from taking political "donations" out of employees' paychecks without first obtaining written permission from the employee. For this, the unions have sued me repeatedly and tried to drive me out of the political process via the court system. Recently, they even offered to forgive any judgments they have against me if I would just stay out of politics. I rejected that offer.

For the entire time I have worked in the political arena, and an arena it is, I have been careful to follow Oregon's elections laws to the letter of the law so that I could survive the level of scrutiny to which I am continuously subjected. If you think I have failed at that, I respectfully submit that you have been reading too much of what my political enemies have written and said about me. On this website, you will be able to access "my side of that story".

If you are an everyday working Oregonian, I have been working on your behalf. I ask for no thanks. I do what I do because I believe in it and will do so as long as the legislature remains on its present course. The bad press, the lawsuits, and the character assassinations are just part of the price one pays these days for bucking the powers that be. If giving voters more say in how their state is run is a crime, then I am guilty.

After all, that is all that I have done.