Everything that was accomplished under President Trump along the border is getting reversed by Biden. It is horrible. We were dealing blows to illegal immigration, drug runners, coyotes, and finally securing our border on the South. Listen, we are a Nation of Immigrants, but of immigrants that came here legally. We have always had challenges with how people come to America, but we can not just ignore the problem – let’s fix the problem. Our borders need to be secured because without a border, we are not a country.

We do more background checks to own a gun, versus immigrating here.

In the U.S. Senate, I would propose a brand new easy-to-follow set of requirements to immigrate here, then another easy to follow set of requirements to show a clear pathway to citizenship. 

We have freedoms, guaranteed in the Constitution, that shall not be infringed. Let me state that again, freedom’s guaranteed not maybe, it is a right. I very much support our right to bear arms, freedom of speech, right to assemble, heck I even agree with the freedom of the press, I may not agree with what they say, but I respect their right to say it. Do they respect ours?

Tyranny creeps in when our liberties get eroded. We are sliding down the hill right now and we have to protect our rights at all costs. The culprits are in the White House, they are in the Senate. We need to remove them!

Peace through strength is what Reagan said, and it holds true today. We must stay strong against our enemies and perceived enemies such as China, Russia, Iran, and many others.

I served in Iraq and still have friends there who I can trust. We do need some military reforms that will make us safer in the future. When I volunteered to serve it was out of duty to my country, but a lot has changed since then. We need to compete for young people to join the military again.

President Trump’s policies on China, Iran, North Korea and more were working. Our economic power in the world is just as important as our military power, they go hand in hand.

Government should not be able to just shut down businesses and the economy within the United States without reasonable cause. A free capitalistic economy is what this country was built on, and I intend to vote for legislation that only adds to that idea. There is a strong push from Democrats against family-owned businesses. They have embraced the wall street elite. Small businesses are the backbone of America.

I have been privileged enough to serve on the Prineville City Council for over 10 years now, both as councilor and now mayor. During my tenure, we have been able to attract huge companies and some smaller companies to Prineville, watch our local economy grow, and increase our tax base to provide services for the community.

To help economies grow, incentives work. Not more government control. I will take this same approach in moving aside and letting businesses thrive. It is a proven economic development approach.

I will promote our American companies and help them be successful both at home and abroad and give them an incentive to do business here in the US, and hopefully in Oregon as well. Oregon is well positioned for the future, but unless we have leadership that is focused on jobs and the economy versus raising taxes and forcing companies to move their money off shore like Senator Wyden we will not be successful.

Responsibility to reopen economy:

• Bring back our manufacturing and production jobs from oversees to include medical supplies, textiles, and rare earth minerals.
• Reduce overregulation of business.
• Pro-growth tax policy that will enable private sector business to thrive.
• Strong and vibrant energy policy that will include green energy. We need to to be striving on all fronts, including the reintroduction of Nuclear Energy to our grids.
• Invest in new highways, bridges, dams, electric grids, and other infrastructure to help our companies move the goods and services.

We need a real energy policy. We need to use natural gas, oil, woody biomass, wind, hydro, solar and more to have a robust economy. I will also support micro grids so cities can be more self-reliant, versus dependent on a large grid that can fail with much greater consequences.

We have an abundance of natural resources in America. If used responsibly, it can be a great source of energy as well as jobs for Americans. Wyden, and the Democrats would rather see our natural resources locked up in wildernesses so it can burn every summer.