States Rights

The role of the federal government is to provide mutual common defense among the states and operate in a limited fashion so as not to overpower the rights and roles of the states and people themselves in local jurisdictions in accordance with the 9th and 10th amendments.

The vast amount of government functionality should occur at the state level, in part to help produce healthy competition among the states and prevent an over bloated federal government catering to the whims of a select group of people unwilling to leave it up to the states and misdirect federal resources. A good candidate for the house of representatives will look to be fiscally responsible at the federal level while supporting states rights and state legislative control over domestic development. I will fight for greater state control over our own destiny as a state free from outside influence whether that is from another state or foreign government.

Alaska is poised to become the most important state in the near future with the access to critical minerals, location to the Arctic and Pacific, our tremendous land opportunities, and natural resources we share as a state. I will seek to bring a frontier vision of living back to the rest of the country.