WHAT I STAND FOR

I stand in service to God, and for the free exercise of religion. I pledge to uphold our freedom, and our peace.

I choose to stand for peace in times of war, and to prepare for adversity in times of peace.

I stand as a man, determined to protect our rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness for our wives, our children, and our future generations. 

I stand in support of the constitutions of the State of Utah and of the United States of America.

I stand for clean air and pure water.

I stand for freedom of speech, and for the right to keep and bear arms, and for the right of the people to mete out justice to our peers through service on juries.

I also stand for the right of juries to judge the law.

I stand in support of a Citizen Initiative Process that gives both a voice to the people and a way for the people to directly implement or change a law as they please. AFTER ALL the legislature is only there to represent the people. NOT to lord it over them, and not to rule unjustly. A legislature or a governor that tries to undermine the initiative process by restricting access to it, or by setting the conditions for a referendum or Initiative unreasonably high, OR BY ALTERING A VOTER APPROVED INITIATIVE, does not represent the people.

I stand in support of public education. Were it not for the ‘Public’ in education most of us would have little or no education at all. Education would once again become the preserve of elitists with money. Troubled though it may be, public education functions to serve the greater good of humanity and must not only endure, but prosper so that we, as a people, can be our best.

I stand for prison reform and judicial reform and I stand in opposition to mandatory minimum sentencing laws. 

James R. Clark, an LDS General Authority, in Messages of the First Presidency, Vol.1, p.198 - p.199 said,

 “Now, O people! people! turn unto the Lord and live, and reform this nation. Frustrate the designs of wicked men… Petition your State Legislatures to pardon every convict in their several penitentiaries, blessing them as they go, and saying to them, in the name of the Lord, Go thy way and sin no more.

Advise your legislators, when they make laws for larceny, burglary, or any felony, to make the penalty applicable to work upon roads, public works, or any place where the culprit can be taught more wisdom and more virtue, and become more enlightened.

Rigor and seclusion will never do as much to reform the propensities of men as reason and friendship.

Murder only can claim confinement or death.

Let the penitentiaries be turned into seminaries of learning, where intelligence, like the angels of heaven, would banish such fragments of barbarism. Imprisonment for debt is a meaner practice than the savage tolerates, with all his ferocity. "

Amor vincit omnia - Love conquers all

I offer a genuine commitment to service, family values, and ethical representation. If you will have me as a servant to represent this people, I will pledge my life and my sacred honor to these ends.