I moved to Cincinnati in 1970 with my new bride, to work for Hartford Insurance Company, Main Street, Downtown, as a Multi-line Claim Representative. She also worked downtown, for the IRS. She was a career federal civil servant, now retired.

I was born in Louisville, Kentucky on January 26, 1942. My dad was a maintenance supervisor in the cooperage industry (wooden barrels) with a talent for machine design. His designs have been the standard for cooperage machines throughout the world for the last half of the twentieth century. He was an 8^th grade genius who earned a spot as the plant engineer in his cooperage plant.

I value that family life style with a parent at home through the school years. The ability to have one job or career sustain the family is a worthy social goal.

My library card was always a dear friend and I had friendships with many famous authors and historians. My intellectual curiosity took me into many areas of personal study. I was an average student by school standards but considered very bright by my teachers and my "straight A" friends who I helped with homework while neglecting my own studies. I listened intently in classes and "aced" all the tests. I was the first person in my family to earn a college degree.

I played sandlot sports with numerous friends on a daily basis throughout my life into college, where I took up tennis. Tennis is a lifelong passion.

My son was born in Good Sam in the early 1970s. Cincinnati is our hometown.

After six years in claims, I changed to drafting where I found a livelihood made easy by my visual and mechanical aptitudes. My divorce occurred about the same time, in 1975.

I stayed in contract work for twenty years so I could be a father to my son. In contract work, I had the option to move if my ex-wife elected to move my son away from Cincinnati.

I have never re-married despite several close and loving heterosexual relationships of considerable duration. (Top of Page)

I worked for five years in the 1980s for joint custody so children could have the opportunity to have two loving parents in their lives after a divorce of their parents. I edited a joint custody information packet which was instrumental in getting hearings on joint custody (shared parenting) in the Ohio legislature. A year of work produced the first ever shared-parenting divorce legislation in Ohio. I discovered that political activism can get results that improve the lives of our citizens. Due to the good results from that experience, I have been an advocate of political activism to this day.

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Every time I meet a young person who came from a divorced family, and who had the love of both of their parents in a shared parenting custody arrangement, I am proud of my efforts to obtain the enabling legislation.

Because of my experiences with divorce law, I learned to openly question the "justice" in our justice system.

Since the 1980s, I have stayed involved as a moderate political activist. I do not accept anything in society on face value. I constantly ask questions to consider why we have the society we have and if there is some way to improve the lives of our citizens. (Top of Page)

I will work to eliminate corruption from our political system for the rest of my life. Until the fall of 1999, I had never seen myself as a political candidate. I still do not see myself as a politician. I am not an ideal candidate in my own mind, but if not me, who? If not now, when? I know I will represent us.

I will be a citizen legislator when elected. I will serve no more than two terms in office — four years. I will work to elect another citizen legislator, another non-partisan independent or minor party candidate to serve in the U.S. Congress to take my place. Non-career politicians are more likely to work for clean government and for us. I will return to Cincinnati to live.

I have a few other pamphlets and books in mind to write over the balance of my lifetime to work for liberty and justice for all in a more democratic republic.

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