I am a U.S. NAVY veteran. I believe in God and go to a Baptist Church. I am Married.
I live in Sullivan, Mo. area and my family has been here for several generations.
I have an associate degree from Linn Technical College. I am 63 years old. I have had Department of Defense Security Clearances from my job and military service.
I am not now or ever been a member of a closed, secret, society, association, club, fraternity etc.
I am retired after working many blue collar jobs. I have 2 grown sons and 2 grandsons.
I spent a lot of my adult life visiting my parents and caregiving toward the end of their lives.
My Dad was also a bomber crewmember and P.O.W. in WWII and very wise and honest, and my Mom was a good, strong, and loving Mother, I loved and respected them both very much.
I try to live by their teachings of honesty, consideration, and common sense.
I made up my mind to campaign for this office in Dec.2013 and Registered in Jan. And now again in 2016 I have become re-certified as a write In candidate with the Mo. Secretary of State this year because of Bernie Sanders.
I got tired of just complaining about politics with friends and watching the gov't make worse and worse decisions and feeling so frustrated I started regularly posting on facebook " VOTE THEM OUT, VOTE THEM ALL OUT, VOTE EVERY INCUMBENT OUT. I was begging for good, strong, honest, people to please run for office. I realized that everyone was complaining about the same things. No matter where I go, people in restaurants, gas stations, anywhere and from all classes and backgrounds were saying basically the same things. So I decided to either quit voting or serve my country again. Hence my decision. I have changed my mind a little tho because there are some young politicians that have started to work together to change the house rules and be productive. My "vote them out" advice now only applies to long term politicians for they are the ones who have allowed the country to get in such a mess.
FRIENDS ARE TELLING ME I NEED TO TELL YOU HOW I STAND ON ISSUES, AND WHAT I THINK I CAN DO WHEN I GET TO WASHINGTON AS A FRESHMAN CONGRESSMAN. SO I'LL TELL YOU SOME:
Thank the Lord for letting me win the election or more importantly pray for his help if I do.
Immediately upon inauguration when they ask if you accept the rules and procedures of the last congress I will vote NO if I can, New rules and procedures MUST be adopted to be more efficient.
Be advised and guided by good, sensible, and decent congressmen and women.
Have NOTHING to do with business lobbyists. I consider it bribery.
Call for and vote to IMMEDIATELY end the wars in the middle east and withdraw our troops and ask for automatic and immediate entry into the V.A. Healthcare system for all Veterans upon separation from active duty. Also retroactive for all military veterans, including me.
That's a start on what I actually think I COULD do when you elect me.
I don't want to get into issues much because everyone just uses them for soundbites and arguments and I don't know how I'd have to vote on each one and I don't want to lie to you.
I'm realist enough to know that even in a good congress you have to make trades of support.
I am AGAINST the CITIZENS UNITED law that gave corporations rights as a person that lets them be so powerful, get away with practically anything, and pay little or no taxes. It should be repealed immediately!
I am have become against pregnancy abortion. I do not feel it should be a legislative matter but one of conscience. People have used it for decades for their hidden political agendas. Teach respect for life and love and make a nation worthy of bringing a child into and where a good life awaits them.
I am against the Affordable Care Act "obamacare" because I'm against Health insurance Companies and would like to see them out of business and diversify into something decent and productive to keep their employees. AND it's not affordable like first introduced.
I'm not for national healthcare I AM for simple national healthcare billing. Like medicare for everyone pays !00% for sensible Drs., Dentists, and hospital fees, Regulated fees if necessary! It's such a mess that Gov't should check, handle and pay your bills, WITHOUT health insurance billing profits, while you have the freedom to use the doctors and treatment you choose. I am for forgiveness of all medical school debts and 100% grants for med school. When your sick and worried and your family is stressed, this medical billing madness and confusion is terrible, shameful, and unnecessary. I also think natural and alternative care should be covered the same way because you should be free to choose the health care you have confidence in.
I am against gun control and believe in the second amendment, because of the protection from potential foreign invaders and the possibility of tyranny from our own Government and besides they are someones personal property.
I want to stop chemtrails now! I believe the geoengineering research and potential industry should be shutdown immediately!
I think there should be 4 United States congressional districts only in each state. Sectioned off by a vertical and horizontal line intersecting as close to center as possible according to population. This would cut the number of representatives in half saving over 200 congressmen, staff, office, salaries and expenses, plus eliminating these crazy district borders made only to favor one political party or the other. Fewer congressmen would become more accountable to you and less of them to argue amongst themselves. There would just be less of them to NOT pay any attention to you.
I think congressional business should be operated by Full house meetings with everyone in attendance in regular day shift weekday sessions in the open for debate and vote up or down in a timely manner. After all it's just discussion and decisions.
I think congress and the country would be more productive, useful, better off if we spent the next term repealing the laws of the last 30 years instead of making new ones.
I think congressional committees should be abolished and bills should be one subject at a time in simple language taken out of the box and put up for debate and vote in order and in the open. Congressmen get extra pay for every committee they are on and it's a good way to bury bills and not let them be discussed and voted on, make secret deals, and add porkbarrel spending for things that have nothing to do with the name or subject of the bill.
I am for national legalization of the farming crop of hemp with no restrictions. Hemp is a wonderfully useful crop product and economic booster. I am also for the national legalization of marijuana use with only the same restrictions as alcohol which ( as related by many policemen) causes much less trouble than alcohol use. Marijuana also claims medicinal uses. If legal the criminal violence, border trouble, law enforcement cost, court costs, prison cost, corruption, would all dramatically be reduced and hundreds of millions of dollars or more in sales taxes would be collected.
I believe illegal immigration could be stopped by simply fining any employer of one say $25,000
for each illegal employee caught. Would you take the chance to hire one? If they can't find work they won't come or stay. But make legal immigration easier and quicker to get.
I do NOT believe in private prisons. A person's liberty should only be subject to and the responsibility of Gov't.
As I've heard from teachers the no child left behind and everything attached to it is a dismal failure and a needless hardship on the teachers and should be repealed immediately. Discipline for students and respect and courtesy for teachers needs to be returned to our schools. I also believe sensible courses only should be offered and required, where legible handwriting and spelling, arithmetic like counting change, American history and government (civics) will be accomplished skills and knowledge upon graduation. And this should be done in the classroom instead of goofing off in school and sending the kids home with a ton of homework with no teacher there to help them with problems they encounter.
I think there should be a gov't regulated price of a dollar a gallon for fuel. The cost of fuel has crippled our economy and our way of life and I think billions of dollars profit PER QUARTER is outrageous and shameful to say the very least.
I think the federal reserve bank should be taken over and returned to the Gov't.
I think we should get out of the IMF and World Bank.
I believe in eliminating Homeland Security, NSA, TSA, DEA, etc. and transferring responsibilities and manpower to FBI and CIA and domestic police departments.
I think the monopoly of gigantic news media corporations should be broken up because they changed the laws to let them become monopolies and we're getting spun news and fluff entertainment, misdirecting our attention from what's really important.
I believe income tax should be a small percentage of EVERYONES income, rich and poor individually, and business and corporate, with NO deductions or "loopholes". IRS should be simply enforcement and a simple form for everyone and entity.
I believe in AMERICA not a new world order. I am sick and tired of being in and manipulating other countries and our servicemen fighting and becoming crippled or dead for corporate interests overseas, countries hating us, and being involved in other country's business.
I believe the only reason we should war is in our own physical and immediate defense, and in other countries to stop genocide of civilians or an invasion by another country, THAT"S IT. And only then to completely destroy the aggressor and their equipment and come home and let them sort out their own mess.
I believe we should close most of our military bases around the world, returning our servicemen to American soil. I believe we should have equal shares of large military bases in all 50 states with service personnel rigorously and constantly training and on standby alert so when we do need them they are able to be sent immediately to trouble anywhere in the world. Our large transport Air Force and Navy can get our armies anywhere as quick as they need to be there. In the meantime our service personnel can spend their paychecks here helping OUR domestic economic situation. I would also support a draft of all eighteen year olds for 2 or 3 year enlistments with NO exceptions, to learn fitness, discipline, maturity, patriotic honor and respect. then college and healthcare would be supplied by the V.A.
I believe Gov't departments have become way too large and powerful and should be reduced in size and influence.
All this should give you a good sense of who I am and what I believe. I hope you want to vote for me and will talk about me with your friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers and direct them to this website from facebook, utube, twitter, or other contacts. THANK YOU I would appreciate your comments, questions and suggestions on facebook or just call me on my home phone 573-468-6766. Any other candidates offer that? I will answer or call you.
I live in Sullivan, Mo. area and my family has been here for several generations.
I have an associate degree from Linn Technical College. I am 63 years old. I have had Department of Defense Security Clearances from my job and military service.
I am not now or ever been a member of a closed, secret, society, association, club, fraternity etc.
I am retired after working many blue collar jobs. I have 2 grown sons and 2 grandsons.
I spent a lot of my adult life visiting my parents and caregiving toward the end of their lives.
My Dad was also a bomber crewmember and P.O.W. in WWII and very wise and honest, and my Mom was a good, strong, and loving Mother, I loved and respected them both very much.
I try to live by their teachings of honesty, consideration, and common sense.
I made up my mind to campaign for this office in Dec.2013 and Registered in Jan. And now again in 2016 I have become re-certified as a write In candidate with the Mo. Secretary of State this year because of Bernie Sanders.
I got tired of just complaining about politics with friends and watching the gov't make worse and worse decisions and feeling so frustrated I started regularly posting on facebook " VOTE THEM OUT, VOTE THEM ALL OUT, VOTE EVERY INCUMBENT OUT. I was begging for good, strong, honest, people to please run for office. I realized that everyone was complaining about the same things. No matter where I go, people in restaurants, gas stations, anywhere and from all classes and backgrounds were saying basically the same things. So I decided to either quit voting or serve my country again. Hence my decision. I have changed my mind a little tho because there are some young politicians that have started to work together to change the house rules and be productive. My "vote them out" advice now only applies to long term politicians for they are the ones who have allowed the country to get in such a mess.
FRIENDS ARE TELLING ME I NEED TO TELL YOU HOW I STAND ON ISSUES, AND WHAT I THINK I CAN DO WHEN I GET TO WASHINGTON AS A FRESHMAN CONGRESSMAN. SO I'LL TELL YOU SOME:
Thank the Lord for letting me win the election or more importantly pray for his help if I do.
Immediately upon inauguration when they ask if you accept the rules and procedures of the last congress I will vote NO if I can, New rules and procedures MUST be adopted to be more efficient.
Be advised and guided by good, sensible, and decent congressmen and women.
Have NOTHING to do with business lobbyists. I consider it bribery.
Call for and vote to IMMEDIATELY end the wars in the middle east and withdraw our troops and ask for automatic and immediate entry into the V.A. Healthcare system for all Veterans upon separation from active duty. Also retroactive for all military veterans, including me.
That's a start on what I actually think I COULD do when you elect me.
I don't want to get into issues much because everyone just uses them for soundbites and arguments and I don't know how I'd have to vote on each one and I don't want to lie to you.
I'm realist enough to know that even in a good congress you have to make trades of support.
I am AGAINST the CITIZENS UNITED law that gave corporations rights as a person that lets them be so powerful, get away with practically anything, and pay little or no taxes. It should be repealed immediately!
I am have become against pregnancy abortion. I do not feel it should be a legislative matter but one of conscience. People have used it for decades for their hidden political agendas. Teach respect for life and love and make a nation worthy of bringing a child into and where a good life awaits them.
I am against the Affordable Care Act "obamacare" because I'm against Health insurance Companies and would like to see them out of business and diversify into something decent and productive to keep their employees. AND it's not affordable like first introduced.
I'm not for national healthcare I AM for simple national healthcare billing. Like medicare for everyone pays !00% for sensible Drs., Dentists, and hospital fees, Regulated fees if necessary! It's such a mess that Gov't should check, handle and pay your bills, WITHOUT health insurance billing profits, while you have the freedom to use the doctors and treatment you choose. I am for forgiveness of all medical school debts and 100% grants for med school. When your sick and worried and your family is stressed, this medical billing madness and confusion is terrible, shameful, and unnecessary. I also think natural and alternative care should be covered the same way because you should be free to choose the health care you have confidence in.
I am against gun control and believe in the second amendment, because of the protection from potential foreign invaders and the possibility of tyranny from our own Government and besides they are someones personal property.
I want to stop chemtrails now! I believe the geoengineering research and potential industry should be shutdown immediately!
I think there should be 4 United States congressional districts only in each state. Sectioned off by a vertical and horizontal line intersecting as close to center as possible according to population. This would cut the number of representatives in half saving over 200 congressmen, staff, office, salaries and expenses, plus eliminating these crazy district borders made only to favor one political party or the other. Fewer congressmen would become more accountable to you and less of them to argue amongst themselves. There would just be less of them to NOT pay any attention to you.
I think congressional business should be operated by Full house meetings with everyone in attendance in regular day shift weekday sessions in the open for debate and vote up or down in a timely manner. After all it's just discussion and decisions.
I think congress and the country would be more productive, useful, better off if we spent the next term repealing the laws of the last 30 years instead of making new ones.
I think congressional committees should be abolished and bills should be one subject at a time in simple language taken out of the box and put up for debate and vote in order and in the open. Congressmen get extra pay for every committee they are on and it's a good way to bury bills and not let them be discussed and voted on, make secret deals, and add porkbarrel spending for things that have nothing to do with the name or subject of the bill.
I am for national legalization of the farming crop of hemp with no restrictions. Hemp is a wonderfully useful crop product and economic booster. I am also for the national legalization of marijuana use with only the same restrictions as alcohol which ( as related by many policemen) causes much less trouble than alcohol use. Marijuana also claims medicinal uses. If legal the criminal violence, border trouble, law enforcement cost, court costs, prison cost, corruption, would all dramatically be reduced and hundreds of millions of dollars or more in sales taxes would be collected.
I believe illegal immigration could be stopped by simply fining any employer of one say $25,000
for each illegal employee caught. Would you take the chance to hire one? If they can't find work they won't come or stay. But make legal immigration easier and quicker to get.
I do NOT believe in private prisons. A person's liberty should only be subject to and the responsibility of Gov't.
As I've heard from teachers the no child left behind and everything attached to it is a dismal failure and a needless hardship on the teachers and should be repealed immediately. Discipline for students and respect and courtesy for teachers needs to be returned to our schools. I also believe sensible courses only should be offered and required, where legible handwriting and spelling, arithmetic like counting change, American history and government (civics) will be accomplished skills and knowledge upon graduation. And this should be done in the classroom instead of goofing off in school and sending the kids home with a ton of homework with no teacher there to help them with problems they encounter.
I think there should be a gov't regulated price of a dollar a gallon for fuel. The cost of fuel has crippled our economy and our way of life and I think billions of dollars profit PER QUARTER is outrageous and shameful to say the very least.
I think the federal reserve bank should be taken over and returned to the Gov't.
I think we should get out of the IMF and World Bank.
I believe in eliminating Homeland Security, NSA, TSA, DEA, etc. and transferring responsibilities and manpower to FBI and CIA and domestic police departments.
I think the monopoly of gigantic news media corporations should be broken up because they changed the laws to let them become monopolies and we're getting spun news and fluff entertainment, misdirecting our attention from what's really important.
I believe income tax should be a small percentage of EVERYONES income, rich and poor individually, and business and corporate, with NO deductions or "loopholes". IRS should be simply enforcement and a simple form for everyone and entity.
I believe in AMERICA not a new world order. I am sick and tired of being in and manipulating other countries and our servicemen fighting and becoming crippled or dead for corporate interests overseas, countries hating us, and being involved in other country's business.
I believe the only reason we should war is in our own physical and immediate defense, and in other countries to stop genocide of civilians or an invasion by another country, THAT"S IT. And only then to completely destroy the aggressor and their equipment and come home and let them sort out their own mess.
I believe we should close most of our military bases around the world, returning our servicemen to American soil. I believe we should have equal shares of large military bases in all 50 states with service personnel rigorously and constantly training and on standby alert so when we do need them they are able to be sent immediately to trouble anywhere in the world. Our large transport Air Force and Navy can get our armies anywhere as quick as they need to be there. In the meantime our service personnel can spend their paychecks here helping OUR domestic economic situation. I would also support a draft of all eighteen year olds for 2 or 3 year enlistments with NO exceptions, to learn fitness, discipline, maturity, patriotic honor and respect. then college and healthcare would be supplied by the V.A.
I believe Gov't departments have become way too large and powerful and should be reduced in size and influence.
All this should give you a good sense of who I am and what I believe. I hope you want to vote for me and will talk about me with your friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers and direct them to this website from facebook, utube, twitter, or other contacts. THANK YOU I would appreciate your comments, questions and suggestions on facebook or just call me on my home phone 573-468-6766. Any other candidates offer that? I will answer or call you.