Voters Pamphlet Summary
Candidate Statement
My opponent has been the incumbent for 28 years, far too long as you may agree if you favor more new faces in Washington DC. As shown below, except for occasional work in the trades, I’ve had a full career in computer science. A lot of complex problem solving is involved, a skill which I can transfer to our government: a place that needs people of all backgrounds, not just another lawyer.
Briefly on issues, unlike my opponent’s voting record, I’m in favor of: a law to limit House members to four terms; doing something every session, even if it’s a tiny change for a two-year extension to postpone falling off the so-called Social Security cliff; passing laws so girls and women can feel safe and comfortable again in XX-chromosome designated bathrooms, locker rooms and Title IX sporting events; in favor of required sanitary, safe environments for street people (because there’s not a bit of mercy or compassion in leaving them exposed to extremes of weather, violence, vermin, and drugs); for banning any transgender medication or procedure during adolescence; for Arizonian-like school vouchers so every student gets a chance to attend a better school, and where failed schools get fixed or closed; for the trending improvements seen when banning social media and cell phones in primary and high schools; for firing district attorneys who won’t enforce the laws they’ve sworn to uphold, who release violent offenders, and rerelease serial offenders. Finally, I’m for funding and backing the blue.
More details may be found on this page.
On the November ballot you’ll see some popular initiatives expected to pass. They were crafted by common sense Republicans to reverse misguided laws from the current majority. I will strive to apply similar common sense so the public doesn’t have to reverse what government has done. I respectfully ask for your vote.
Experience
Elected Experience
I am not an incumbent; this is my first run at a national office.
Other Professional Experience
23 years working as a software engineer, supervisor, and principal network engineer at one of the big three telecommunications providers. My assignments have been varied, from 2G to 5G, but usually they’ve been working with the back-office systems and networks that make your smartphones smarter.
13 years working in Information Technology at Boeing Defense and Space with a DOD secret clearance on the B-2 Spirit program.
4 years working in Lakewood at a sole proprietorship on automated lumber inventory and accounting systems.
A spring and summer season framing houses in the Puyallup South Hill area.
2 years, cumulatively to pay for college, working at a metal-cutting lathe in a Kent production machine shop.
And way back, I find it an interesting coincidence, the northern-most customer of my middle school paper route came to the exact southern border of our current District-9.
Education
Whitworth University, BA Cum Laude; Puyallup High School
Community Service
Playing music for the members of an assisted living community. Being a football stadium “voice of the band” for one our district’s excellent high school marching bands. Ringing the bell at Renton supermarkets for a familiar holiday season charity. Helping my wife take a government-charge resident, a shut in at an Adult Family Home, out on weekends. Occasionally peeling onions or doing any necessary task at local soup kitchens. Presenting, speaking and judging at after school science fairs.
Endorsements
Tom Deutsch - Airline Captain
Doug Basler - Video Production/Media Buying
Don Kelts - Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM)
King County Republican Party
11th Legislative District Republicans
47th Legislative District Republicans
Deep Roots In Washington State
Paul was born in northern California while his parents resided in a small town that is now contained in the Redwood Forest National Park. His dad was from Portland, his mom from Yakima, and they were serving a church in that small town. Before too long, only 3-years, they were back to the Northwest. When Paul worked at Boeing during the first half of his career, he was following in his mom’s footsteps, and her father’s before that. His maternal grandmother was an early Husky female athlete, and when she pulled her crew-8 senior oar out of the water for the last time, it was the beginning of a four-decade hiatus for women in that sport at the university. He has a great grandfather that built a church in Canby, and preached in it, then years later built a church in Yakima and preached it. Another great grandfather, seeing the need among the poor, was a founding doctor for a charity hospital we now know as Harborview Medical Center. One of that doctor's sons served in Olympia for 22 years, when terms from both chambers are combined, and was active in developing the state and county fairs. As a kid, when the session was out, Paul fondly remembers visiting the chamber and sitting in the Senator's chair. And at the beginning, in a different family branch, there is a great-great grandfather, a Civil War captain, who anchors a family plot in a small-town graveyard north of Walla Walla. If you discern from this that it's time for another generation to step up; the candidate would have to agree.
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