I am excited and full of energy to announce my reelection campaign to the West Virginia State Senate for Senate District 4! I am your job creating, conservative Senator. I’ve been working for a paycheck since before I was 12 years old. I grew up working with my hands. My dad and I built the first house we could call our own when I was 12 from rough cut lumber of a nearby lumberyard, dug the footers by hand, mixed the concrete foundations on site, and lived in the house for one year without running water for a year until we could afford a septic system. Prior to that we lived in borrowed houses and trailers for as long as I could remember. I married my high school sweetheart in our senior year of high school. We had our first of three children days after graduation. Natalie and I worked our way through college. To my family and me, struggle is not a concept, it’s our history.
 

 

My family and I put our only asset, the home we scraped for, on the line to start our first business in Teays Valley in 1997. I was 24 years old. I slept at the business 6 nights per week for the first year we were open. Sleeping where I could was familiar to me growing up. Within 6 months of opening, I realized that West Virginia law set small family businesses up to fail. So I got to work influencing state policy makers to fix it. I also attended school on weekends and evenings to complete my Doctorate, and obtain my MBA along the way.
 

 

In 2014, when the republicans took majority and the state was financially upside down. The Senators that I had developed relationships with in the Republican Party over the years asked me to become an advisor as they took the majority for the first time in 83 years. I agreed to do so full time for three months a year through 2017, but only so much as it was on a volunteer basis. I quickly became and influencer in the legislature and then ran for office in 2018.
 

 

Since first elected in 2018, I have backed up my promises with results for West Virginia Families. Senate District 4 is growing again. The counties of Putnam, Mason, Jackson, and Cabell now reverberate an energy from those results that all of West Virginia feels. As your champion in the State Senate, I have been a leader of leaders to bring to Senate District 4 thousands of jobs, billions of investment historic general revenue investment into secondary roads, sewer, water, broadband, money to build schools, and historic tax cuts. I have been recognized as the fiscal hawk that improved transparency into how the executive spends money. I led the leaders that produced one of the top 5 State Budget surpluses in the nation as a percentage of their budget. I’ve championed policy to protect the unborn, enshrine your gun rights, and preserve your individual freedoms.

 

As your State Senator, I bring decades of relationships that matter and results that are real. Now, and most of all, I want West Virginia to be the place where you can get the job you want, keep the money you struggle to earn, and do it all with as little government intrusion as possible. West Virginia is a traditional family state, let’s stay on the path of giving our kids the opportunity to build their family here too. Please re-elect me as your State Senator.