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Where I stand.
In my own words.
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Reading the platform, one issue at a time.
Where I Stand on Crime and Public Safety
A family court case brought my son to Rapid City in 2018. I followed him here, and eight years later this city is home. I am raising my son in the neighborhoods that make up District 32, downtown and North Rapid.
Pillar K: Public SafetyPublic SafetyCriminal JusticeGrow What We Already Love: Where I Stand on Rapid City's Economy
Walk downtown on a Saturday morning and you can see what Rapid City already does well. Coffee shops with a line out the door. Families on the sidewalk. Owners behind their own counters, sweeping their own floors.
Pillar H: Economy & Rapid CityEconomyRapid CityParents Decide. Teachers Teach. Where I Stand on Education.
My son is nine. When I pick him up and ask what he learned at school today, I get the same answer every parent in District 32 gets: 'Nothing.' We laugh about it. It's a game every dad knows.
Pillar J: EducationEducationWhere I Stand on Elections and Voting Integrity
I learned about trust in systems the hard way. Eight years ago a family court case brought my son to Rapid City, and I followed him here. For years, everything I loved depended on whether the rules in one courtroom got applied straight.
Pillar C: Election IntegrityElection IntegrityVotingWhere I Stand on Food, Agriculture, and Rural South Dakota
Every winter, ranch country comes to town. The Black Hills Stock Show fills Rapid City with stock trailers, work boots, and families who measure their year in calving seasons.
Pillar L: Ag & RuralAgricultureRuralThe State Should Not Balance Its Budget on Broken Homes
I respect the choices adults make. If a South Dakotan wants to play video lottery after work or put twenty dollars on a football game in Deadwood, that is their business and not mine.
Pillar M: GamblingGamblingFamilies FirstWhere I Stand on Gender, Biological Sex, and Protecting Children
My son Elijah is nine. Like every parent in District 32, I think about what he sees, what he reads, and who is looking out for him when I am not in the room. A phone in a backpack can reach anything on the internet.
Pillar E: Protecting ChildrenProtecting ChildrenWhere I Stand on Government Accountability
Eight years ago a family court case brought my son to Rapid City. I followed him here, and I spent more hours than I can count in rooms where government made enormous decisions about my family.
Pillar O: AccountabilityAccountabilityTransparencyWhere I Stand on Immigration and Border Security
When I tell people in Rapid City that immigration and border security belong in my platform, the same question comes back almost every time. The southern border is about a thousand miles from Pennington County.
Pillar F: ImmigrationImmigrationBorder SecurityYour Land Is Your Land: Where I Stand on Property Rights and Eminent Domain
In 2018 a family court case brought my son to Rapid City. I followed him here and bought a house here the same year, because being his dad meant being close. That house is the largest thing I own.
Pillar G: Property RightsProperty RightsEminent DomainWhere I Stand on Medical Freedom, Public Health, and Food Integrity
A family court case brought my son to Rapid City in 2018, and I followed him here. I bought a house, built a business, and lived through the COVID years in this town, same as you. I remember what those years did to the kitchen table.
Pillar I: Medical FreedomMedical FreedomFood IntegrityReligious Liberty Is the Law, Not the Exception to It
The First Amendment does not say Americans have the right to believe quietly. It says Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion. Exercise. The practice of faith, not just the holding of it.
Pillar N: Religious LibertyReligious LibertyDue Process Is the Line: Where I Stand on Guns
I came to Rapid City because of a courtroom. A family court case brought my son here in 2018. I followed him, bought a house, built a business, and put down roots. Eight years later this is home, and I am running to represent it in Pierre.
Pillar D: Second AmendmentSecond AmendmentGun RightsThe Path Back
Six states have passed a strong Shared Parenting presumption: Kentucky, Arkansas, West Virginia, Florida, Missouri, and Mississippi. When South Dakota finishes the job in 2027, we become the seventh.
Shared ParentingFamily Court ReformWhy I'm Running: A Letter to District 32
Eight years ago a family court case brought my son to Rapid City, and I followed him here. Here is the honest reason I am on your ballot for State House, District 32.
Why I'm RunningProperty Tax Relief Without the Sales Tax Hike
South Dakota homeowners are being taxed out of houses they have lived in for decades. SB 245 trades one tax for another. SB 96 is the cleaner path. Here is how I would deliver real, permanent property tax relief without raising the sales tax on working families.
Pillar B: Taxes & BudgetProperty TaxSpending DisciplineWhere I Stand on Shared Parenting
Eight years ago a family court case brought my son to Rapid City. Two sessions of work in Pierre later, here is exactly where I stand on Shared Parenting and how we finish the work in 2027.
Pillar A: Life & FamilyShared ParentingFamily Court Reform