Candidate for Oregon House of Representatives - District 42 in 2026 Oregon General Election.
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Get StartedRemove legal barriers to voluntarily funded protection services and private arbitration of disputes. Government does not need to authorize these arrangements; it needs to stop claiming a monopoly on the functions they perform. A business district financed by compulsory assessment is not a private alternative. It is the same tax with a nicer letterhead. Learn more
Government should not be able to take your property without a criminal conviction. Civil asset forfeiture (seizing property without a conviction) is theft by the government, not law enforcement. Learn more
Restitution over punishment, accountability over immunity. Justice should answer to the victim, not to the institution that sends the taxpayer the bill. Learn more
Legalize the supply. Decriminalizing possession while criminalizing the market is not a policy — it is a subsidy for cartels. Learn more
Support full educational freedom: repeal compulsory attendance laws and allow families to choose any educational arrangement — homeschooling, private school, microschools, apprenticeships — without government interference or required reporting. These are not theoretical alternatives; they exist, they work, and they expand rapidly wherever government does not suppress them. Learn more
Remove state barriers to new educational providers. Accreditation mandates and facility regulations function as incumbent-protection devices, not quality controls. Learn more
Exit, not reform. Compulsory attendance, provider licensing, and vouchers alike keep the state’s hand on the curriculum; only leaving costs it anything. Learn more
Oppose voucher programs. Vouchers do not liberate education; they extend the government’s franchise into private institutions. Learn more
Sue the polluter, don’t license him. A polluter who fouls your land, your water, or your lungs owes you compensation; an agency that sells him a permit owes you nothing. Learn more
Oppose red flag laws as currently structured in Oregon. Confiscating firearms based on a unilateral ex parte order — without criminal charge, trial, or conviction — is a due process violation. The burden of proof must rest on the government, not on the gun owner to petition for their own property back. Learn more
Oppose state-mandated background checks and government purchase records. A private seller is free to check a buyer out; the state is not free to condition a right on its own approval, or to keep the roster afterward. Learn more
No permission slip for a right. Every firearm restriction Oregon has on the table works the same way: the state defines who qualifies, then widens the definition. Learn more
Get the state out of medicine. Oregon has made every alternative to insurance harder to buy than insurance, then pointed at the result and called it a market failure. Learn more
Repeal Oregon’s statewide land use planning statutes. The Urban Growth Boundary is an anti-competitive moat that restricts the land available for development and insulates existing property owners from competition. Portland solved sprawl the way a tourniquet solves circulation. Learn more
Eliminate zoning restrictions on density, use, and building height at the state level, and preempt local governments from reimposing them. Learn more
End state and local government ownership of housing. Government housing allocates units politically rather than by need and insulates itself from quality competition. Learn more
End all state-mandated permitting delays and design review requirements that add months and tens of thousands of dollars to housing construction. Learn more
Repeal rent control statutes. Rent control destroys supply and benefits current tenants at the expense of everyone else seeking housing. The economic evidence on this is overwhelming and one-sided. Learn more
Let riders pay for rides. Fares cover about seven cents of every dollar TriMet spends running the system. The rest arrives whether you ride or not. Learn more
Repeal Oregon’s mandatory motorcycle helmet law for adults. Adults may weigh risk to themselves without a permission slip from Salem. Learn more
Support opening transit corridors to private operators. If routes are genuinely valuable, private providers can serve them without a captive tax base. Portland’s regulatory framework effectively prohibits jitneys and microtransit, protections that exist to insulate TriMet from competition, not to serve riders. Learn more
Oppose extending helmet, seatbelt-style, or similar self-risk mandates into new categories of activity. If the justification is “it might cost the system money,” the state has justified regulating everything. Learn more
Leave minors’ safety equipment to parents, not statute, the same principle already applied to countless other child-rearing decisions the state does not micromanage. Learn more
Get the state out of the liquor business. Learn more
Abolish the OLCC’s liquor monopoly. Privatize distribution and retail; let spirits be sold like beer, wine, and groceries — by businesses that can be fired by their customers. Learn more
Repeal the Corporate Activity Tax. A gross receipts tax is economically illiterate: it taxes companies that are losing money and distorts business decisions in ways that harm workers and consumers. Learn more
Support repeal of the state income tax. Oregon’s reliance on income tax makes state revenues extremely volatile and punishes the one activity government should be least interested in discouraging: productive work. Learn more
Oppose all tax increases, categorically. Learn more
The money is not the state’s to begin with. Oregon taxes what you earn, what a company takes in whether or not it profits, and the house you finished paying for, and will only argue about the percentages. Learn more
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