Elected Experience: None

Other Professional Experience: Fisheries Research Scientist with five decades of experience managing fish populations and fish habitats.

Education: B.S. degree in Wildlife Management from Humboldt State University.

Community Service:  Served two years in the U.S. Army Infantry. Founded The Human Rights Party in 2012 to give candidates and individual voters a new alternative that may be more in line with their personal beliefs and convictions.

Statement: To ensure life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, both health care and education must be recognized as basic human rights for all Americans.  The only cost effective way to provide universal health care is by providing a single national insurance program, including removal of the responsibility from both employers and employees (private and public sectors, including education).  Exclusion of private insurance and advertising companies (and the IRS) from health care would save the American people trillions of dollars in unnecessary costs during the 21st century.  Severing the current mandatory linkage between health care insurance and employment would create a major new and sustainable stimulus for job creation and growth of the American economy.  For education, we need to recognize the essential role of post-secondary training as part of our definition of basic education.  Tuition fees in state college systems must be drastically reduced or eliminated. The only tax policy change needed would be to begin taxing capital gains at the same percentage rates as earned or ordinary income.