Candidate for
Member of the State Assembly; District 41

Thomas Jefferson believed that "government governs best which governs least". When penning the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson was rallying against the excessive taxation, personal intrusiveness, and special interest politics of the British monarchy. If he were alive today, Jefferson would be appalled at the rule of the Democrat and Republican parties which actively tax workers' income (a thought appalling to Jefferson), impinge on the basic civil rights of citizen's to appease special interest groups, and brazenly trade government favors for campaign contributions. He would be proud to endorse my plans for smaller and less intrusive government.

Benjamin Franklin believed that "those who trade liberty for safety, deserve neither". Benjamin Franklin realized that there is a tendency of people who gain power to want to keep power, and for people doing well in society to want to keep the status quo. He realized that the precious civil liberties for which his generation fought and died, might be relinquished by future generations of Americans willing to offer those liberties back to the government for the government's promise to keep order maintained. He would be disheartened to see his worst prediction come true. Benjamin Franklin would endorse my effort to reaffirm the paramount importance of civil liberties to a free society.

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis warned us that "the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." Several decades ago we as a people decided to start governing with our hearts instead of our minds. We have granted government vast amounts of resources and power to "do good". The result has been an utter failure. Despite a greatly expanded government and thousands of programs and "wars", little has been done to reduce entrenched poverty, provide decent healthcare or education to the economically deprived, or improve race relations and other worthy social goals. We have traded our paychecks and our civil liberty to a group of well meaning men and woman who have little understanding. Justice Brandeis would actively endorse my belief that only true compassion can improve lives and true compassion can only come from the heart, not from Sacramento or Washington.

There is not a single founding father or respected American figure up (at least up until 1930) who would not be appalled by the current state of political affairs and intrusive government. They would be ashamed of what their Democratic and Republican parties have become. They would actively support my campaign for returning basic liberties to citizens and returning the government to one envisioned in the Constitution.