Relatively new to Northwest Iowa, I am a 4 year resident of Le Mars and was born in Guthrie Center. Bringing my self-started grass-roots activist network to Plymouth county, I've been able to tap into the needs of my community while being bolstered by the national support-base of my organization.

The grass-roots activist organization I have founded and currently direct is the Project for the Old American Century. The Project serves as an internet-based independent media outlet and online community that focuses on corporate and government corruption and other issues important to Americans across the political spectrum.

 Previous to my work with the Project for the Old American Century, my resume includes being  the operator of a small business, a retail store manager, a health insurance underwriter, and a factory laborer. This work history has given me the perspective and values of the common working person and I'm someone who knows what it's like to live from paycheck to paycheck while trying to afford healthcare and education.

  At a relatively young 37 years of age, I feel my time has come to apply what I've learned thus far to bettering my community and becoming the catalyst for change that we so desperately need in district 3.

Family

  Lacking the good fortune to have been a native of Northwest Iowa, I am fiercely proud of the years that I have spent here. My beautiful and brilliant wife was born and raised here and her parents (Ken and Shirley Jacobsen) are long time fixtures in the region, having farmed here and having formerly been the owners and operators of Eilers Farm Services.

Family History

  I am the product of what a positive work ethic can do for hard working people. Neither of my parents had a high school education. My mother was a stay-at-home mother with two children and my father was a mill-worker. His wages were barely enough to support our family and we struggled to get by and hung onto the lowest rungs of the economic ladder. Later, my father was hired on at Reynolds Metals and was able to join the United Steel Worker’s union. It was at that point that our economic situation greatly improved. Thanks to the United Steel Worker’s Union, my father was able to be adequately compensated for the level of work he was willing to do. Here was a man without a high school diploma who was able to work hard enough to resume his education, put his family in a middle-class neighborhood, create a college fund, and have comforts, the likes of which he could never have imagined without a union job to reward his work ethic.