The North Carolina House of Representatives is the lower house of the North Carolina General Assembly. The House of Representatives consists of 120 members who serve a term of two years. Each member represents an average of 87,116 residents *, as of the 2020 Census . The presiding officer of the House of Representatives is the Speaker of the House, who holds powers similar to those of the Senate President pro-tem. The Speaker is elected by the members from their membership for a two-year term. The Speaker’s duties include maintaining order in the House and appointing members to the House standing committees.The North Carolina General Assembly, of which the House is a part, is to convene a new regular session every two years, and the dates for these sessions are set by law. The NC legislature makes decisions on the budget: taxes, tax credits, economic development, education funding, Pre-K, the courts, Medicaid, etc. It also passes laws that set environmental standards such as water and air quality, tax rates, tax credits, criminal justice. Legislators in both chambers serve two-year terms without term limits. Sessions begin at noon on the third Wednesday after the second Monday in January.* https://ballotpedia.org/Population_represented_by_state_legislators
Current Occupation
Railroad Engineer, CSX; Small Business Owner; State Representative
I’ve lived in Rockingham my whole life. For more than 25 years I’ve worked as a railroad engineer, and as a small business owner I know what it takes to meet a payroll. I served ten years on the Richmond County Board of Commissioners, where I learned how decisions in Raleigh land on local budgets. In the NC House, I chair the Wildlife Resources Committee and serve on Transportation and Appropriations, working to bring road, infrastructure, and public safety dollars home to Richmond and Moore counties. I’m not a career politician. I’m a working man who answers his phone and knows the people he represents.
Keeping Richmond and Moore counties affordable for working families. That means holding the line on taxes, cutting red tape for small businesses, and bringing in good-paying jobs. It also means making sure growth pays its own way. I voted for the Ratepayer Protection Act because no family, farmer, or small business should foot the power bill for a multibillion-dollar data center. New development should be transparent, protect our natural resources, and respect the community around it. I’ll keep fighting for roads, broadband, and rural infrastructure so our part of the state isn’t left behind.
Every child deserves a safe school with a great teacher at the front of the room. I’ve supported budgets that raised teacher pay and backed efforts to bring experienced retired teachers back into high-need classrooms. Education dollars should reach the classroom, not the bureaucracy. Parents deserve a real voice in their children’s education and real options, whether that’s a traditional public, public charter, home school or private school. I also want to expand career and technical education and community college partnerships, so students graduate ready for skilled jobs right here at home.
Families and small businesses know how to spend their money better than government does. Over the past several years, the General Assembly has steadily lowered the income tax while still balancing budgets, raising pay for teachers and law enforcement, and saving for emergencies. That approach has made North Carolina one of the best states in the country for business and jobs. I want tax policy that stays simple, predictable, and low – offering relief to those who’ve earned it, like our disabled veterans, and keeping big corporations from shifting costs onto working families.
Safe communities start with supporting the people who protect them. I’ve backed pay raises for law enforcement and legislation to strengthen protections and retirement options for officers, and I’ll keep working to help rural sheriffs’ offices and fire departments recruit and keep good people. We need real consequences for repeat violent offenders and fentanyl dealers. I’ll also keep defending the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. Public safety means every neighbor can trust that the law will be enforced fairly and consistently.
Richmond and Moore counties are home. I grew up here, I work here, and it’s where my wife and I have built our family. In 2010 I became the first Republican elected to the Richmond County Board of Commissioners, and I’ve brought the same approach to Raleigh: show up, listen, and deliver results. Recent sessions have cut taxes, raised teacher and law enforcement pay, and delivered targeted investments in public safety, infrastructure, and health care for our district. I was honored to be named a Jobs Champion by the NC Chamber of Commerce for supporting manufacturing and keeping rural North Carolina competitive. Whether or not we agree on every issue, my door is always open. Call my office, stop me at the grocery store, or reach out by email. It’s an honor to serve you, and I’d be grateful for your vote.
Current Occupation
Teacher
Age (optional)
45
Campaign Phone
9104205452
With over twenty years of military service, having led troops from the team to the division level, I am adroit at task management, sound decision making and long term planning. As a teacher, my experience with addressing the different needs of each student, while educating them to be future leaders is paramount in my leadership style.
The top priority of the legislature is a sound and comprehensive budget, which embarrassingly was not completed on time. In that budget, funding increases must be made to our public education must be made if our students are to achieve parity with other regional students. The corporate tax rate needs to be raised back to a sustainable level, a moratorium data centers and ALPR cameras must be enacted as well.
First, the opportunity scholarships must be removed. This bill takes money from public schools and puts it in the hands of private schools that can discriminate at will and do not have to comply with NC standards. In tandem with the aforementioned corporations paying their share, I intend to pursue union membership amongst the public schools in order to collectively bargain for better benefits thus retaining our best and brightest teachers.
NC proudly boasts that it is the most corporate friendly state while eschewing the fact that it is the worst state for workers. The corporate tax rate is slated to be 0% by 2030. The corporate tax revenue makes up 10% of the general fund. This needs to be addressed. Additionally, all three proposed amendments to the NC constitution will hurt families and individuals while benefiting large businesses. I neither promote, nor receive any donations from corporate PACs, and I will continue to not do so.
Rescinding HB 10 which mandates that sheriff’s offices comply with ICE. An unchecked, unqualified, armed force that faces no repercussions for killing Americans is a major threat to anyone this administration deems to be against their objectives.
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