“Reward frugality. Promote those who practice it rather than those who enlarge their department size.”

“We have very smart, influential success stories here, and we need to have local government partner with them.

“I would have refused the governor’s suggestion I be the middle man in his TMT problem.”

“It is my intent to impose a hiring freeze and instead restructure personnel with what we have.”

“We cannot continue ‘business as usual’ and cannot automatically accept the need for every position occupied by a city/county employee.”

“As a legislator I would make a huge investment into public tele-health.”

“The government’s job is to get out of the way so the people can diversify the economy.”

“The most important concern for my district is addressing the overcrowding of schools.”

“Any way we can give more power to people instead of self-serving career politicians is a high priority for me.”

“I believe the Legislature could benefit from a larger representation of business voices to showcase how government and businesses need to co-exist.”