1. Tell us a little about yourself and your family, how long you have lived in the area.:

My family moved to Arco, Idaho when I was 9. My father worked in nuclear research as a mechanical engineer at INL. In 1998, when I was 16 my family purchased a small farm near Princeton, Idaho, which my father farmed from 2006 until his death in 2025. I attended the University of Idaho and graduated in 2004 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. My wife and I moved to Longview, WA in 2005 where I worked at a Weyerhaeuser pulp mill (now owned by Nippon Dynawave). While in Longview we had 4 children and my wife finished a bachelors in Nursing. We returned to Idaho in 2018 when I got a job with Clearwater Paper in Lewiston, Idaho. Our 4 children are Elizabeth (17), Ariana (14), Matthew (11) and Benjamin (9).

2. What is your educational background?: I have a bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Idaho (2004) and a Masters in Business Administration from Washington State University (2025).

3. What is your occupational background?: I have worked in traditional heavy industry my entire career, nearly 21 years now. All in pulp and paper mills, except for an internship with Potlatch as a sawmill engineering in 2004 and 2005. I have filled various roles including engineer, maintenance planner, maintenance supervisor, maintenance coordinator, operations supervisor and currently operations assistant superintendent.

4. Do you have experience as an elected official and if so, what was your position, and how would you describe your voting record?:

I have no experience in elected office.

5. Please tell us about your activity as a Republican. Have you previously voted for candidates of other parties? If yes, explain.:

I have voted only for Republicans my entire adult life.

6. What is the purpose of government?: To serve the people.

7. Where do our rights as citizens of the United States come from?: Our creator.

8. Describe why you are running for this particular office. What are your qualifications? What are your goals?: I recognize this election as a unique opportunity. It is time for a fresh perspective in Washington. It is time for a non-career politician to serve. We need someone who is still grounded in the struggles of everyday citizens.

9. Describe experiences where you are or have been engaged such as non-profit organizations, clubs, churches, boards, commissions, etc., where you have been of service to others.:

I have extensive experience navigating company-union politics. I have attended church faithfully my entire adult life. I spent 11 years as a volunteer in a juvenile detention facility.

10. Do you describe yourself as fiscally conservative? Please, elaborate.:

I am fiscally conservative. I believe our countries fiscal path is unsustainable and that changes must be made very quickly or our nation risks social, economic and political upheaval.

11. Do you consider yourself as socially conservative? Please elaborate.: I am socially conservative. Marriage is between men and women. Abortion is reprehensible.

12. Describe which party platform best aligns with your positions on public policy (Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or Constitutional Party) and where do you disagree with that platform.:

Republican. I don't have any areas of significant disagreement with the Republican Party Platform.

13. Do you have ANY history of tax liens, criminal record, bankruptcy, or conflict of interest (personal or professional)?: No.

14. Describe how you will make yourself available to your constituents and vote as their representative with FORTITUDE, adhering to the values and answers you have stated above.:

I intend to go to Washington to fight the regulations that vex the common man. I will fight to represent and defend the needs of the citizens of Idaho for everyday livability and limited government. Our state needs a fresh face in DC with a new perspective, someone who is still in touch with the daily life of the middle class, someone who is not a career politician. I will be meeting with my constituents whenever and wherever possible. Because I have young children and it is my wish that they be raised in Idaho, it is my plan to travel home weekly. My rural background and my industrial background means that I am far more comfortable interacting with the daily lives of everyday Idahoans than I am with an office environment. I have extensive professional experience making painful, high stake decisions. Pulp mills are extremely difficult to staff and operate. Work hours are very long, routinely 16+ hour days, and operating and maintenance costs are very high and controversial decisions must be made after long days on industrial machinery that is very dangerous. Downtime cost's routinely run $50,000 to $250,000 per day, resulting in very high pressure environments, The equipment being operated and maintained is extremely dangerous with often operating practices as the only safeguard against injury or death. I intend to bring this leadership and decision making experience to congress. I also have experience interacting with the federal regulatory bureaucracy and I have a strong desire to see the systems governing our nation changed to make the lives of every day citizens easier. If elected I will be the only member of the senate, and perhaps all of congress, with 20 years heavy industrial experience. I will be there to help the citizens of Idaho rebuild our great nation. We need a complete rejuvenation of our production capacity from harvesting and mining through refining and processing to the finished products. Very few members of congress can feel at home at a farm, mine, smelter, rolling mill, sawmill, steel mill or machine shop.