Family has always been the center of American life. Family is the core of our social structure and the cornerstone of our economy. Unfortunately, the family is under assault. Children belong to their parents, not to the community. Indeed, it takes a village to raise a child, but that refers to shared values and norms. Raising a child should not be collectivized.  A good starting point to restore the societal centrality of families is through defending and enhancing parental rights. I would support legislation that would effectively preempt or roll back any institutional policy that removes educational and medical decisions regarding minor children from the parents and vest them in bureaucrats.

North Carolina does quite well in terms of economic growth. After Florida and Texas, it is the third state of choice for those relocating. It is important to maintain the good investment climate North Carolina offers and where possible to improve it. Economic growth through investments makes us all wealthier.

Economic leadership must not focus on growth for the sake of growth. Growth that is concentrated in a single (or just a few) geographical areas, is accompanied by environmental and infrastructural challenges that negatively affect the quality of life of the residents in those areas. The towns around the Capital show tremendous growth in population. Large parcels of forest are cut down – with irreplaceable loss of wild-life habitat and recreational opportunities – for new housing projects that pop up everywhere, but traffic congestion is increasing and already becoming problematic. I support economic policy that encourages growth beyond the metropolitan areas of the state to allow the increasing prosperity to benefit all North Carolinians while reducing the negative externalities.

I believe in democracy that brings political decision-making as close as possible to the communities that are directly impacted. In that sense, I am a federalist, a proponent of shifting political responsibilities from the federal level to the states. But I go further and believe that the very idea of self-government demands that within the state of North Carolina we need to decentralize political decision-making and allocate political power as much as reasonably possible to the county and municipal level.

Being a naturalized American citizen myself, and understanding the promise of liberty that America holds, I am of course not opposed to immigration. In principle, immigrants are welcome. But that is only true for legal immigration.

I strongly oppose illegal immigration and efforts for amnesty of those who entered our country illegally. Illegal immigration negatively impacts our social fabric, undermines the functioning of the labor market, exhausts government social services, overwhelms schools and reduces educational outcomes, burdens healthcare services and increases the costs of healthcare, leads to rising housing costs, rising crime, and results in higher taxes. Illegal immigration is directly correlated to affordability.

In NC we need to ensure that law enforcement dutifully cooperates with federal immigration enforcement agencies, and I, therefore, applaud the General Assembly’s override of Governor Stein’s veto of SB 153.

I oppose legislation that would allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses.

Illegal immigrants should not be allowed access to government social services and other welfare benefits.

The use of the E-Verify system to confirm the employment eligibility of new hires is currently mandatory for employers with 25 or more employees. I support lowering that to employers with 5 or more employees.

We cannot deny biological reality. Under no circumstance, can males be allowed in female sports. Males have biological advantages over women (more muscle, denser bones, etc.). Therefore, the participation of males in women sports is unfair and takes opportunities, such as scholarships and rewards, away from those who deserve them.

Women are entitled to privacy and need to feel safe. Thus, males should not be allowed in women’s locker rooms, rest rooms, and other private places. That is all just common sense.

Politics do not belong in the classroom (apart from civic classes). Unfortunately, personal agendas of teachers, administrators, and school boards have been distracting from teaching our children the basics of reading, writing, and math. We must return to what matters.

Teachers are paid to educate, not to indoctrinate. Students need to be trained in how to think critically, not in what to think. In other words, we need to insist that education form capable minds, not compliant echoes.

Intellectual diversity is essential in higher education to prevent the creation of academic echo chambers and the resulting viewpoint orthodoxy. At NC State University the faculty composition is ideologically unbalanced with Democrats outnumbering Republicans 20 to 1. The academic monoculture is not acceptable as students need to be exposed to viewpoint diversity to develop critical thinking skills. A self-governing republic requires citizens trained to argue ideas, not avoid them. Universities that cannot tolerate sustained internal disagreement are not preparing students for civic life. This unbalance is not incidental or random. Let’s be honest, if a business reduced the number of women or minorities to less than 5 percent, a court would likely find de facto discrimination. Taxpayer funding must be conditioned on restoring the ideological balance which can be achieved by removing the hiring monopoly from faculty and vest it with the central administration.

I support introducing accountability in education from K12 to universities. Results are all that matter. We should evaluate teachers based on educational outcomes. My proposal is to change how teachers are paid. They should receive a base salary and an annual bonus depending on the performance of their students.

We all know that competition improves the quality of services. That’s why it is important to introduce a competitive element into educational services by creating a voucher system allowing parents to send their children to the best performing schools.

School boards should not become a steppingstone for aspiring politicians. Of course, I understand that parents have a busy life, but you cannot fully outsource policy-making in regard of the education of your own children. Parents should be more involved. Therefore, I would support legislation that would reserve a minimum number of seats on school boards for parents who have children in schools governed by a particular school board.

Research has found roughly 1 in 10 students in K-12 schools have suffered some form of sexual misconduct by an educator. Our children should be safe in school and parents need to know when there exists a threat to their wellbeing. I support legislation that would mandate administrators and school boards to report sexual misconduct to the police without exception and inform the parents. Failure to report and inform would constitute grounds for removal and prosecution.

The United States is a democratic republic. The idea of self-government, embodied in the Declaration of Independence, requires an informed citizenry. Citizenship is a moral and intellectual condition. Teach people what to say or chant, how to signal, and when to comply, and they will look like citizens while functioning as dependents.

The first amendment is essential to ensure that citizens can participate in our experiment based on an understanding of the different viewpoints to the issues of the day. Our individual freedom of speech, as all other freedoms, is limited by the freedom of speech of others. Freedom rights require respect of others who have the same rights.

We face many challenges in the 21^st century, caused by technological developments such as artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to the emergence of global governance systems. America can face these challenges by returning to the core values of the American Revolution that afford citizens the freedom of self-determination and economic independence.

How many Americans (and non-Americans) are currently sucking off some government teat? Dependence is submission. It isn’t “freedom” to be dependent upon the government. To establish economic freedom for all, we must take measures to reduce and eventually end financial dependency on the government. Most social programs are well-intended, but beneficiaries appear to not be able to recover their economic independence. People are captured in a welfare program for ever and from generation to generation. That is unamerican. One cannot be free when dependent on a government welfare program. That’s why we must put time limits on eligibility and include flanking measures to encourage beneficiaries to become economically independent.

Government intervention in healthcare has effectively led to healthcare that is unaffordable for too many Americans and North Carolinians. Obamacare, the latest effort to arrive to something close to a nationalized healthcare system, has only reduced choice and access to care, and increased waiting times and insurance premiums. This problem needs to be tackled at the national level, and I will work with our representatives in Washington, DC to repeal Obamacare and replace it with a system that offers choice of doctors (no network limitations), choice of health insurance, competition (to reduce costs). I agree with President Trump that federal subsidies should not be paid out to insurance providers (thus, removing power from consumers) but instead to all Americans as individuals, so they can purchase the insurance they need and want. In that way, the efficiency of the marketplace would be restored.

The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is in a sense the foundation of all other rights. Whether it is freedom of speech, property rights, freedom to worship, freedom to pursue happiness, etc., etc., all these rights are anchored in the right to keep and bear arms. Without the Second Amendment none of the other rights are secure.

The right to keep and bear arms is recognized in the U.S. Constitution and, therefore, it does not end at state borders. The current practice whereby (many) states do not automatically recognize carry licenses issued by another state is unacceptable. For that reason, I support the 2025 Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act and will work with our delegation in the U.S. Congress to pass this Bill, to ensure that law-abiding North Carolinians can comfortably travel to and in another state.

Open carry without a license is already law in North Carolina. I see no reason for the requirement of a license for concealed carry, as the underlying philosophy for permitless carry is essentially the same for both types of carry. I support the efforts to pass Constitutional Carry Law in North Carolina through SB 50 (“Freedom to Carry NC”) and HB 5. (“NC Constitutional Carry Act”).

Election integration hinges on three issues:

1. Who can vote.
2. Census and the proper definition of population.
3. Trojan horse tactics in primary elections.
   • The power to govern rests with the citizens of the U.S. For that reason, only citizens can vote. Therefore, we must make sure that non-citizens cannot appear on the voter rolls, otherwise citizens’ democratic rights will be diluted. We also must take all measures necessary to prevent voter manipulation such as ballot harvesting, flanked by serious felony-level repercussions. In addition, we must prevent duplicate registration by ensuring that registration is only under the full legal name with SSN. Because address verification mailings cannot be completed before election day, same day registration should be eliminated; serious voters can certainly register a week before the election. The law should be clear that without exception, foreign nationals (even if they live in the U.S.) cannot contribute to election campaigns, flanked by serious felony-level repercussions.

• • Election should be decided by U.S. citizens. Representation is the source of political power. The number of seats in the U.S. House is determined through a process called apportionment which is based on the relative population of each state. However, population is not defined in the Constitution. In my view, in the Constitutional context, where voting is restricted to citizens, population relevant to count for the purpose of apportionment must also be limited to citizens. That is just common sense. The 10-year census, therefore, should exclude non-citizens to prevent overrepresentation of states with large numbers of non-citizens (whether legal or illegal) among their inhabitants. Otherwise, non-citizens with no right to vote, indirectly influence the relative size of representation of the states in Congress.
  • Under current rules, unaffiliateds can vote in party primaries in NC. This has opened the door for shenanigan tactics whereby unaffiliated voters are able to commit crossover sabotage of opponents, invade the nomination process of a party to which they owe no loyalty, and split party votes to hand the election to the other party with which the so-called unaffiliateds are more beholden. Such practices will always lead to retribution, turning elections into chaos, so it is to all parties’ benefit to preempt this practice by establishing a fully closed primary system.

Between 2019 and 2015, the total inflation rate was around 25.62%. This means that the purchasing power of a dollar decreased, and $1 in 2019 could only buy $0.79 in 2025, unadjusted for inflation. Or, from a different perspective, if an item costed $100 in 2019, the same item would cost $126 by the end of 2025. Most of the inflation was the result of government spending to expedite the economic recovery from the pandemic with peaks in 2022 (8%) and 2023 (6.5%). In 2025 inflation was 2.6%, still almost one percent higher than the starting point in 2019 at 1.76%. This is not a local issue but a national one, and the NC legislative has no control over inflation. But what we can do, is reducing cost of government services by increasing efficiency and removing wasteful spending. A recent study revealed that 10 counties, including Wake County, collected $2.7 billion more in property taxes than justified by inflation and population growth. We need to set limits which cap annual growth in property tax revenue from existing properties to protect taxpayers against local government greed.

Stable housing creates a foundation for better health, steady employment and stronger educational outcomes for children. Unfortunately, America is dealing with a housing affordability crisis that is affecting every community from coast to coast, caused by a lack of supply in the marketplace in combination with high interest rates that are keeping people locked into their existing homes, and a regulatory environment that makes it harder and harder for builders to build homes affordably. There are several things we can do in North Carolina, such as:

• Deregulation – eliminate excessive regulations
• Preserve energy choice for home heating/cooling and appliances
• Increase efficiency of local zoning rules
• Adopt reasonable building codes that are cost-efficient
• Ensure permits will not become roadblocks and reduce the cost
• Increase the availability of diverse housing choices
• Build stronger public-private partnerships to fund and sustain affordable housing projects