First off, thanks for making the effort to learn more about the candidates. I truly appreciate your civic interest, even if you don't vote for me. But if you choose someone else, I hope you'll take something from this site and expect it from whomever you do vote for.

I built this site on my desktop PC, so you're gonna really dislike it on your tablet, and absolutely hate it on your phone. Much of what you're seeing here was built by GoDaddy's AI, although the words are all mine. It's more than I need for the present time, but I update it often, so check back every now and then. I've seen the other candidates' websites, and I'm very impressed and a bit intimidated by several of them. But I believe this is a contest of ideas, not presentation, so I hope you'll think more about the message than the packaging.

I'm a Democrat because I believe that we're all in this together. And when I say "all," I mean Republicans as well. Veering sharply to the left will only anger half the country. That's not progress, it's a pendulum. If the "Blue Wave" occurs, the worst thing Democrats can do, in my opinion, is enact a bunch of laws that 1) the Republican president will never sign or 2) will just be undone in a few years. Congress should work together to pass bills that the whole country can support. Good men and women have tried to work together over the last few years, but have been frustrated that there aren't enough of their kind in Congress. We need more people like them, not more ideologues. When someone says they'll "fight" for me, I sigh. Fighting is what got us where we are, as though the other half of the country is our enemy. I promise to work for progress on behalf of everyone in this district.

I'm also running because I don't like how most campaigns are run. We are choosing someone to represent us in the halls of power, but all we know about them is their last name from some tacky posters on every street corner, or who else endorses them from a glossy mailer that tells us nothing else. I won't do what I don't like seeing done.