I am running for office because I truly believe that leaving our government and it’s institutions in the hands of the Republican and Democrat parties is unsustainable and destructive. Together they have polarized our nation, corrupted and eroded our foundational principles and institutions, and have made it clear there is nothing they won’t sacrifice in their pursuit of power. Together with the SAM Party I seek to change the current political paradigm.
Both parties have failed us. Choose any issue and the underlying story is the same. Identify it, polarize it, capitalize on it. This paradigm of division works well for agitating the electorate every two years and for raising funds, but it is in fact the antithesis of what is required to govern. They have cultivated a brilliant system, one in which they have convinced so many that there are only two choices, and where even when one loses they are still “in the game”. Furthermore, the success of each requires the elimination or at least silencing of the other. Make no mistake, the evidence already exists that we have begun to walk down that treacherous path. Nothing will improve unless and until both parties are meaningfully rebuked for their self-serving and toxic conduct. It is time to make it clear that what they offer is beneath us.
Even the staunchest Republican and die-hard Democrat must by now see that their respective parties routinely cripple their own ability to achieve even their most prominent objectives. We are a nation that ventured to the moon and back, and yet today we can’t accomplish even the routine and mundane.
The overarching theme of my campaign is the restoration of trust and integrity in our government and institutions, because without it government loses the ability and authority to function. Major focuses of the campaign include Education, Immigration, Government Reform, and Justice Reform.
Our education system is failing. It has been corrupted by our politics and many of its worst practices and ideas. Politicians and those around them realize they have exhausted their audience, that there are few adults left to persuade, and so they have turned to our children. We must expel the politician’s tentacles from our schools. I support more freedom in education as well as the reinstatement of a robust civics education program, the absence of which is being observed daily. Further I would like to explore the possibility of a youth service program, somewhat like the G.I. Bill designed to repay service to community with funding for college.
Immigration, although it has fallen out of the spotlight, is a critical issue, especially given how it impacts so many other areas of concern from education to healthcare to economics right down to the foundational concept of the rule of law. I have provided an outline of my perspective on immigration on my website for consideration.
Government reform is absolutely essential, not in the vein of replacing our system of government, but rather in returning to it. Politicians have come to believe that they are so important that their ends justify their means. What has been forgotten is that the means are what validate and sustain the ends. We must restore a respect for our uniquely American system of government.
Reforming our justice system has been at the forefront of our national consciousness for some time, and yet when I look at the political landscape nearly everything the politicians have done on the issue has made things worse. From the Bail Reform fiasco to Mayors abdicating their duties to District Attorneys ignoring the laws they’ve sworn to uphold, all of it undermines justice and our civil society. If the elected do not adhere to the law, then why should the governed? We all believe in and desire to see justice done, but you cannot serve a principle by sacrificing it. Anyone seeking or serving in office must lead by example to restore these essential principles. I will.
Every single time the elected place their political objectives above the oath they swore, above the constitution they serve, and the people they are meant to represent, they do irreparable harm to our nation, harm that echoes for eternity and which will ultimately accumulate to a point that it ends the American experiment. We must begin to escape this, we must choose a place to start to do so, and I along with the SAM Party humbly offer that opportunity in New York’s 18th Congressional District.
