Policy

I’m a businessman, a husband and father, and an engaged citizen, and that’s how I think about public policy. This means that I’m committed to creating an environment where innovation and work are rewarded, where opportunity is available to all, and where we honor our responsibility to future generations. These are the basic principles that guide my thinking.

The challenges to maintaining these values are now many. In fact, today we are at a crossroads in Ohio, where we face a basic choice between moving forward and falling backwards, to strengthening these values or losing them. I choose to go forwards, into a better future, and I bet you do too. And in order to do so we need representatives in the Statehouse who have a sense of where the global economy is going—where tomorrow’s jobs are—and what Ohio’s strengths are so that we can thrive in this competitive world.

My experience as a local manufacturer selling innovative products around the globe provides me with a mindset, a set of skills, a basic know-how that I believe will make me an effective proponent of job creation and economic development in the Statehouse. My goal is to move Ohio to the front of the pack, ahead of the curve, in the emerging technologies, energies, and industries that will be the basis of tomorrow’s wealth, jobs, and power.

I make this my primary goal because on the foundation of a strong economy—and only on that basis—can we support and sustain our many commitments to our children and seniors, our veterans, to the building of a better society, and to a clean and healthy natural world.

If you send me to the Statehouse I’ll focus on making our economy strong so that we can make these values real for Ohio and all Ohioans.

Please come back to our website in the weeks and months to come to read about our policy positions on the many issues facing us today.