– Radio and TV Engineer
   – USAF Combat Veteran – Officer/Leader/Fighter Pilot
   – Small Business Owner/Operator South San Antonio
   – Former Texas Peace Officer and Sheriff Deputy
   – Worked supporting Border Patrol in Arizona and Texas
   – Contract Pilot w/TS-Clearance supporting State Department & Military in Iraq and Afghanistan
   – Lived and Worked at Kabul, Afghanistan for six years until it fell to the Taliban in 2021
   – Corporate Pilot Traveled U.S. Sharing Solutions with Great Americans
   – Ran for Congress as Requested by Citizens
   – Delegate to the 2024 Texas State Republican Convention
   – Published Author of Free Books on Solving America’s Problems

I am running to represent you in Texas’ 35th Congressional District.   I am not a career politician.  I am a husband, a father, a grandfather, a combat veteran, a former Texas peace officer, and small-business owner.  I have spent my life solving problems in environments where excuses do not keep people alive and failure carries consequences.  It is my life experiences, combined with my passion for learning and research, that have compelled my lifelong service to America.  Those same experiences and convictions have led me to seek the opportunity to represent you in Congress.

I’m an Air Force Combat Veteran who served as an Officer, Fighter Pilot, and leader.  After I retired from the USAF, I built, owned, and operated a successful small business in South San Antonio.  I’m a former Texas Peace Officer and Sheriff Deputy.  I worked alongside Border Patrol supporting their mission in Arizona and Texas.  For 10-years I worked as a Defense Contractor holding a Top-Secret Clearance supporting the State Department and U.S. Military in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Six of those years I lived and worked at Kabul International Airport until it fell to the Taliban in 2021.  Arriving home I was hired as a Corporate Pilot.  I’ve previously run for Congress and I Served as a Delegate to Texas’ 2024 GOP Convention.  Additionally, I am a published author.

As a child, I was raised on welfare in a home marked by domestic violence and instability.  By any measure, I should not have become successful in life.  While everyone struggles with life’s ups and downs, it is what we learn and how we respond to those struggles that defines who we are.  When life is that hard, survival takes priority over planning for the future.  Still, like most kids, I had a dream.  I wanted to become a pilot.  When my teachers asked me what I wanted to do with my life, I said I wanted to be a pilot.  I could see the expression on their faces change, as if I were joking.  Each time their response was the same.  They would tell me I did not have the aptitude to become a pilot and my family certainly lacked the money to make it possible.  I was told I should lower my expectations and just settle for a day job.  How do you motivate a teenager?  Tell them what they cannot do.  It is not the lack of money that makes us poor, but the failure to follow through with our dreams and aspirations.  I was determined to prove my detractors wrong, and it was through God’s grace that I became an Air Force pilot.

Through hard work, faith, and determination, I became an A student.  I studied and developed the skills to work as an engineer in radio and television while attending college.  After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, I was selected for pilot training in the United States Air Force.  I received my commission as a Second Lieutenant at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.  During Officer Training School, I was selected to attend the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training program at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls.  Texas is not just where I served.  Texas is where my adult life was shaped.  I met the love of my life in Wichita Falls during pilot training.  My wife worked as a registered nurse while enduring deployments and relocations around the world.  Together, we raised three children who are now contributing members of society: a pharmacist, a middle-school English teacher and esports coach, and a certified educator for deaf children with a master’s degree in Deaf Education and Hearing Science.  Their spouses are equally remarkable, and today we are blessed with two grandchildren, with another on the way.  Family is not a talking point for me.  It is the center of my life.

During my 22 years in the Air Force, I served as an aircraft commander in the F-111 D/F fighter aircraft and later as an Instructor Pilot training the next generation of aviators.  I deployed into combat both as a pilot and later on the ground with the U.S. Army as an Air Liaison Officer.  I led, mentored, and was responsible for young men and women in situations where preparation and integrity were not optional.

After retiring from the Air Force, I built, owned, and operated a successful small business in South San Antonio.  I fulfilled another calling by graduating from the Central Texas College Police Academy and served as a Texas peace officer and sheriff’s deputy.  I also worked alongside Customs and Border Protection in Arizona and Texas, supporting border security firsthand rather than debating it from a distance.

From 2010 to 2021, I worked as a government contractor with a Top-Secret clearance supporting the State Department and U.S. military.  My primary mission involved Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Six of those years I lived and worked at Kabul’s International Airport before it fell to the Taliban in 2021.  I have seen what happens when governments lie to their own people, when corruption replaces accountability, and when leaders refuse to face reality.  That kind of experience stays with you.

I am running for Congress because America’s problems are real, measurable, and solvable, yet our political class profits from keeping them unsolved.

For more than 25 years, I have studied economics, governance, healthcare, taxation, and public policy with one central question in mind: Why does a nation with this much wealth, talent, and innovation struggle to deliver basic stability and fairness to its citizens? I did not begin this work to run for office.  I did it because broken systems hurt real people.

As a pilot, traveling across the United States, I had the privilege of meeting and talking with Americans from every background.  Regardless of party, race, or income, people agreed on one thing: the system no longer works for them.  They see politicians blaming one another while families struggle with rising costs, declining trust, and institutions that no longer feel accountable.  When I spoke with fellow citizens and shared my ideas, many encouraged me to run for Congress.  That is why I did, and why I put my solutions in writing.

My first two books, COMMON SENSE: For a New Golden Era and COMMON SENSE: Healing America’s Future, lay out practical, research-driven solutions to these problems.  They focus on restoring transparency and accountability to government; simplifying systems that have grown bloated and corrupt, and aligning incentives so the leaders we elect are bound to serves its citizens.  These solutions require a grassroots effort to overcome decades of political stagnation and the absence of political will in Washington.

I was raised a Kennedy Democrat.  My mother was a single parent who worked two jobs, put herself through nursing school, and raised five children.  I admired that work ethic deeply.  Like many Americans of my generation, I believed in the values articulated by leaders like John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr; personal responsibility, equal application of the law, and the dignity of work.

Over time, I watched those values abandoned in favor of political theater.  I witnessed firsthand how poorly designed policies, implemented without regard for consequences, devastated entire communities.  When the EPA collapsed the Pittsburgh steel industry, families lost everything.  All my relatives lost their jobs.  I saw firsthand what happens when ideology overrides responsibility.

Today, I describe myself as a Christian Conservative constitutionalist.  Some will call me a moderate because I understand issues from both perspectives.  Labels do not concern me.  Outcomes do.  My faith teaches me that power should be exercised with humility, that leaders are accountable for their actions, and that government must never replace personal responsibility or the family.

Liberals often demand change without considering consequences.  Conservatives often resist change long after reform is necessary.  History shows that progress happens when we balance urgency with wisdom.  We do our best work when we argue honestly, test ideas rigorously, and remember that government exists to serve the people, not manage them.

As your representative, I will work for you, not party leadership, donors, or special interests.  I will push for foundational accountability reforms that restore equal application of the law and public trust in government.  The first principles I will fight for are simple: No law should bind the American people unless it also binds those who pass it. No law should apply differently based on political power or government position.  Public servants exercising authority over citizens should be accountable for their actions. These are not radical ideas.  They are the foundation of a free society.

As your representative I will make you this promise, I will not lie to you.  I will tell you the truth as I understand it, even when it is uncomfortable.  I am not running to enrich myself or to build a political career.  I am running because I believe this country still has a future worth fighting for, and because silence has become more dangerous than speaking plainly.

Read my books.  Debate them with your family.  Challenge them with your friends.  If my ideas resonate with you, I ask for your vote and your voice.  Ask your family and friends to do the same.

May God bless you, your family, and the Great State of Texas.