Dear Friend,

Polk County is a wonderful place, and it is important we maintain it so future generations may thrive. I want my now-young children to choose to live here when they reach the age to decide, versus leaving the region for greater opportunity, like so many.

Economic Development is my #1 policy priority. Expanding our tax base rather than asking overstretched taxpayers for more is the pathway forward.

In Polk County we have regional, local and budgetary challenges to overcome and I am well positioned and experienced to meet them. Public safety, maintaining our roads, and clean, safe neighborhoods top our list of needs and they are my budget priorities.

Saving taxpayers money is a major theme of my campaign and example of how I think and overcome problems. Fiscal discipline will be critical moving forward into the future, and as a commissioner I will not be afraid to push back against the tax and spend mentality and unfunded mandates that we see coming out of the state legislature.

-John