A Simple Mission

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Hi neighbors! My commitment is to revitalize our state by returning control and identity to our north-end communities. In my unsuccessful run for the state legislature, I learned a lot about our area and the wonderful people in it, but our media focuses on the national and political, not the local and personal. I want to work to change that and hope you will join me. 

Gary's Track Record

Gary is an internationally known business strategist, multiple award-winning author, a technology expert, the founder of an Inc. 500 company, and an alumnus of Harvard's Graduate School of Business.

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A Plan for Prosperous Communities

Gary's Mission

Status Quo

Attract investment to our local communities through a Partnership for Prosperity. Kill jobs by creating more costly, inefficient, unresponsive state bureaucracies that discourage business.
Move money and control into our local communities. Destroy trust by overriding voters’ wishes and increasing arbitrary control.
Get 80% of educational funds and personnel into classrooms.
 		Waste 53% of the personnel and 41% of dollars outside classrooms.   

 

It's Just Common Sense

Controlling Spending to Save Our Future Prosperity

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Current run-away spending has consequences.  Instead of getting more money into our local communities, it is sucking money out of them. Our politicians have been growing central government two to three times faster than our economy, but our local schools are failing, our gridlock is getting worse, and the reliability of services are declining. The growing number of bureaucrats in Olympia burden our communities with unfunded mandates and create roadblocks to common sense local management.

Local Job Growth Not Olympian Government Growth

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Our priority must be on creating economic prosperity. If employers see hiring employees is a liability rather than an asset, our economy cannot prosper. Our state's legislators just added $757 million to our tax burden, much of it raising the cost of hiring employees. The result is that more than 180,000 private sector workers have lost their jobs in our state. 

Trust Our People Not the Politicians

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We can trust in the wisdom of voters. More and more often, incumbent politicians are acting against the clearly expressed will of the people. On the national level, politicians passed an extremely unpopular health care bill. On the state level, our politicians are even more flagrant in their disregard for the voters' wishes when they "suspend" the laws passed through our initiative process by a simple majority vote.

Liberate Our Teachers From Our State Bureaucracy

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The future of our state depends on educating our children. Nowhere is the failure of bureaucracy more apparent. Over 30% of our kids don't graduate and it is getting worse. Our graduation rates are falling faster than any other state except one. 52% of our students entering college must take remedial courses to enable them to do college level work.

News for Voters

Democrats Easily Maintain Control of Olympia

Unlike 1994, when Washington state was among the states who threw out the incumbents in the last Republican wave, state politics were little affected by the national mood. In the end, Democrats easily maintained control of Olympia though...

Illegal Aliens Canvass for Votes in Wash. State

OneAmerica Votes launched one of the largest get-out-the-vote campaigns in the state on behalf of Democratic candidates. The organization is an offshoot of OneAmerica, one of the state's largest and the most influential immigrant-rights...

Washington State Loses Jobs while Other States Gain

Washington State lost over nine thousand more jobs from July to August while other states are gaining them. In today's economy, states are competing for business and employers. Washington is losing that competition. States that are winning...

Big Corporations and Big Unions Get a Break Today from Big Government

One of the reasons that resources and money need to be moved out of Olympia and Washington DC is that the concentration of power in one place encourages crony capitalism. A good example of this is how easily that the...

Even More Teachers can Mean Worse Results

While teachers are a minority in Washington's K-12 education system (47% of employees), adding more teachers alone does not fix the problems with...

We Are About to Get Crushed in US/China Trade War
Business Insider has identified the ten most vulnerable states if a trade war breaks out with China.  Washington state is right behind the most...
Washington Home Values Fall But Property Taxes Rise

The numbers are straight forward. Despite that fall in property values around the nation and in Washington state between 2007 and 2008, the taxes our home owners paid when up in absolute dollars. In Seattle, property values fell 13.4% in those...

Washington State Government's Footprint

This article by Brian Sonntag, our state auditor, Time to resize Washington state government's footprint, lays out exactly why our current course of...