Training and Experience
Inventor/Buisness owner
Volunteer/Community Service
Humane society/Suicide help
I support elections that are secure, transparent, and accessible, with voter ID requirements, clear auditing, and fair districts so voters choose their representatives.
Ohio should reform its tax system by removing school funding from property taxes. Schools would instead be funded at the state level by expanding the sales tax to certain services that are currently untaxed, a small real estate transfer tax on property sales, and reducing some tax exemptions.
Local services like police, fire, and roads could then be funded with a small 1% local income tax shared statewide, ensuring stable funding for both rural and urban communities while reducing the burden on homeowners.
The cost of living keeps rising, but wages aren’t keeping up. In Ohio, a big driver is property tax. My plan removes school funding from property taxes and funds it at the state level, giving homeowners and renters immediate relief while we work to lower other costs across the board.
My priority is strong schools and fair funding. I support removing school funding from property taxes and funding it at the state level, while expanding career training and making higher education and trades more affordable.
We need to focus less on party labels and more on solving real problems. I’m willing to work with anyone Republican or Democrat if it helps lower taxes, strengthen families, and improve our communities.
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Training and Experience
I founded a medical device manufacturing company (Daavlin) in 1981 and built it into a company doing business all over the world and in every state of the union. The company employed over 130 people.
Volunteer/Community Service
Board of Trustees of the Williams County Community Hospital and the Chairman's Circle of Advisors at the Johns Hopkins Hospital Dermatology Department.
Voter fraud has never been proven to be a results changing problem. Therefore, I would work to preserve mail-in balloting and to make ballot receipt boxes as convenient as possible. I would work against any effort to restrict voting rights, such as requiring proof of birth in English or requiring that a person's current ID match their birth certificate. I would resist any effort to remove the responsibility for elections from local hands. I would resist any effort to curtail early voting and any policies that effectively result in a poll tax.
I am NOT in favor of eliminating Ohio property taxes. It is estimated that sales taxes (which hurt lower income families far more than upper income families) would have to be raised to at least 20% in order to maintain services such EMS, fire departments, libraries AND schools. The economic devastation would be greatest in areas close to state borders as citizens drove across state lines to make household purchases.
I believe that any tax policy that unleashes the economic might of the middle class is good policy as opposed to "trickle down" policies that rely on the largess of the wealthy for our state's economic strength.
Food, shelter, healthcare and education are the fundamental foundations for an aspirational life. Incentivize the latest advances in agriscience that would enable us to reliably grow our food, year around. Why import tariff laden food from Mexico and water-scarce California when it can be grown here inexpensively? Banks won't loan to small building contractors because of legal and governmental funding impediments. Establish a fund that would co-sign loans to small contractors who could replenish the housing supply and stabilize prices if not bring them down. Incentivize everyone to buy health insurance so the insured pool is diversified and large, bringing down health insurance premiums. End the voucher program so public schools need not ask for special levies.
Ohio has a constitutional obligation to fund public schools, not private schools whose purposes may be mercenary or focused on indoctrination more than education. Find ways to cultivate the in-born resources of every child, not just the stars.
Be a decent human being. Listen. Don't try and win every argument. Give a little here and there. Find common ground. Understand that everyone's life is foremost in their universe and that each of us has a lifetime of different experiences that inform who we are. Respect that. There are always different ways of doing things; diversity of thought and experience is a valuable asset. Open one's mind to differences. Treat people well and maybe most important of all, be honest.
