Party affiliation: Republican

Date of birth: 53

Hometown: Dallas Plantation, Rangeley

Occupation: 20-year career in energy business, retired

Education: Bachelor’s in Latin, Oberlin College; master’s in library information studies, UC Berkeley

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Personal information (hobbies, etc.):

Family status: One child

Years in the Legislature: None

Clean Election candidate?: No

1. To work to improve the quality of life across the board: ease the tax burden, eliminate needless bureaucracy and unnecessary fees, create new and competitive health insurance options, encourage out of the box thinking in education.

2. Any issue that will improve the economic condition in Maine will be a top priority.

3. TABOR as a concept has great merit. TABOR as currently drafted presents countless problems for local governments and will add costly bureaucracy locally. It will need to be amended to fix the problems of implementation at the local level.

4. None. The state is in a death spiral economically. No candidate that I am aware of is advancing any political agenda that involves new or changing legislation that already exists regarding abortion or anti-discrimination.

5. In business terms, Dirigo would be considered an “unsuccessful start-up.” Far short of its enrollment goals: 10,000 of 30,000 planned, and two-thirds of the 10,000 were already insured by Anthem and switched. So only 3,000 enrolled were previously uninsured. In the business world it would be under review to assess its viability and no further expansion would be planned.