OCCUPATIONAL BACKGROUND: Software Engineer

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: B.S., Computer Science, Portland State University, 1996

PRIOR GOVERNMENTAL EXPERIENCE: None

The Founders agreed that life and liberty are God-given rights.

With these rights come responsibilities. My task, as commissioner, is to take on those responsibilities.

First, to honor God. Without His blessing, we are headed for certain destruction.

Second, to protect life. Without the right to life, all the other rights are meaningless.

My responsibility as a legislator is to protect the most vulnerable – the unborn. In this county, the government encourages—and pays for—minor children to abort their own children, without the knowledge and consent of their parents. I will not only refuse to pass, but seek to repeal, laws that kill unborn children and permanently harm born children. I will seek to restore parents to their God-ordained rôle as guardians of their sons and daughters.

Third, to restore liberty. We have surrendered more of our freedom to the State (even at the county level!) than ever the colonists did to the tyrant King George.

The government’s job is to keep people from harming one another, and to provide police and courts to punish people who do. The government also should keep up public roads. But it is not the government’s job to provide cradle-to-grave services for all of the needs and wants of the citizen.

As Thomas Jefferson said, that government which governs least, governs best.

As commissioner, I will work to make you more free—more free of regulations on what you can do with your life and property, more free to keep the money you earn and spend it on what you choose.

Spend wisely.

Our government is one under God. He takes his responsibilities seriously, to defend the innocent; so must we.

(This information furnished by Roger Shipman