I am a Sioux City native, a West High graduate, a National Guardsman, a house painter, a North High teacher, a businessman, a husband, and a dad. I'm running for the Iowa House because I am motivated by wanting to work hard for my family and my hometown. Recently, my family became one more as we welcomed Immanuel, 8 lbs. 5 oz. into the world.

Kim and I would like to leave our little Immanuel a way of life and a community that is even better than the one we now enjoy just as our parents sacrificed for us to uphold the promises of freedom and opportunity. However, our current state government is doing business in Des Moines that stunts the fruit of our sacrifices that will give us the kind of legacy that the Greatest Generation embodied:

• State government increased spending by nearly 20%, $1 billion that didn't build roads or better schools. When the economy worsened, the Legislature approved a $750 million borrowing scheme (which will cost Iowans $1.7 billion after interest and fees) opposed by 70% of Iowans that has not created jobs. As government seeks to take over private industry and health care in order to spend our way out of recession, every child born today owes a debt of $43,000.
• While the Culver Administration has been effective at adding taxpayer funded, government jobs instead of attracting high-paying jobs with a good business climate, 114,000 Iowans find themselves without work.
• The Legislature is simply unwilling to let Iowans decide issues concerning personal freedoms be it a marriage amendment, voter-wide referendums on increased spending, or protecting the right of Iowans to work without being forced to pay union dues.

Iowa can be a great place to live, we will leave the future for our children better, not worse, and Iowa's greatest asset is not in Des Moines - it's in our hardworking people and families here in Sioux City.

I'd be honored to have your support!

Jeremy