Why I am Running for Congress

📢 WHY I’M RUNNING

People keep asking me: “What’s your position on this or that hot‑button issue? Why are you running?”

Here’s the truth: I’m an older, married guy. My house is paid off. I’ve got a good job. I’m an empty nester. Most of the “culture war” issues don’t touch my daily life.

But I looked around and asked: What actually matters to the people in my district? What problems are real, not just noise on cable news? And then I got to work.

✅ BILLS I’VE WRITTEN

When I see a problem, I don’t wait for a talking point — I write a bill.

Broadband — Rural Last‑Mile Broadband and Workforce Hubs Act
👉 When I first moved here, the best I could get was 10 Mbps on a janky microwave link. Unacceptable. So I wrote a bill to deliver real last‑mile service and tie it to local workforce hubs.
Healthcare — Rural Mobile Health Access Act
👉 I’ve had cancer twice. It’s 15 minutes just to get weighed and measured, and 45 minutes for any meaningful treatment. So I wrote a bill to bring mobile clinics and specialist access closer to us.
Medicare — Medicare Comprehensive Care and Fair Premiums Act
👉 I know what seniors pay out of pocket and what isn’t covered. That’s wrong. So I wrote a bill to cap costs, expand coverage, and make premiums fair.
Medicaid — Medicaid Integrity, Access, and Accountability Act
👉 People told me Medicaid is broken. So I wrote a bill to fix eligibility cliffs, speed approvals, and audit outcomes publicly.
Property Taxes — Senior Home Protection and Property Tax Relief Act
👉 Older retired homeowners are being squeezed. So I wrote a bill to protect seniors from being taxed out of their homes.
Tips/Wages — Fair Wage for All Act
👉 Tips being treated like part of your salary is a scam. So I wrote a bill to make tipping honest and wages fair.
Farmers’ Right to Repair — Rural Equipment Freedom Act
👉 Farmers not being able to repair their own equipment is totally anti‑farmer. So I wrote a bill to guarantee right‑to‑repair, parts access, and diagnostic freedom.

Every bill I’ve written saves money overall and provides better service. None of them took more than a day to draft. Which makes me wonder what our current representatives are doing with their time. Every time I see a bill being pushed by my opponents, I write a better one — usually within hours.

I don’t re‑write liar bills. I call them out and move on. I rewrite other bills — the ones that pretend to solve problems — to show how easily they could be done right, for the people.

⚖️ HOW I APPROACH LEGISLATION

I don’t waste time rewriting the “liar bills” — the ones slapped with feel‑good names but written to serve lobbyists and donors. Those are designed to deceive, and I call them out for what they are.

🔎 Example of a Liar Bill: “Affordable HOMES Act”

Sounds great, right? Who doesn’t want affordable housing?
It doesn’t build a single home, lower a single rent payment, or make housing more accessible.
What it actually does: strips the Department of Energy’s authority to enforce energy‑efficiency standards on manufactured housing.
Translation: families might save pennies up front, but they get saddled with decades of higher utility bills. The title promises one thing; the text delivers the opposite.

✍️ Example of a Rewrite: Veterans’ Memory Care

Houchin’s “Larry Barrett Veterans’ Memory Care Act” tweaks the VA’s Community Care Program — narrow, temporary, full of gaps (no guaranteed coverage, no cost relief, no permanent framework).

My “Veterans’ Dementia & Memory Care Access and Accountability Act” goes further:

Guaranteed Access — dementia and memory care as a core VA benefit, not a pilot.
Local Care First — veterans access care in their own communities, with VA footing the bill.
Cost Transparency — caps out‑of‑pocket costs and requires public reporting.
Accountability — creates an audit trail so veterans and families can see whether the VA is meeting its obligations.

That’s the difference between a press release and a real solution.

If I can sit down and write a stronger, cleaner bill in hours, what exactly are our current representatives doing with their time?

🔥 THE BIGGER REASON

But none of this is the real reason I started my campaign.

I’m running to change how we do government. I’m sick and tired of being ignored by politicians who answer to lobbyists, PACs, and corporate donors instead of the people who live here. So I built a system to fix it — the Congress App — so every person in IN‑09 can have a direct, equal voice. Anyone can suggest a bill and have it written. Everyone in the district, whether they vote or not, gets a voice — an equal voice.

And this is where the contrast matters:

Erin Houchin has a record of failed, donor‑driven policies that look good in a headline but sell out southern Indiana.
Tim Peck is running with “ideas of a plan,” but under the same broken system — just a different color shirt. You can’t fix a rigged game by playing it the same way.
I’m the only candidate building a system where your vote directly binds mine, in writing and in public.

💰 The truth is, the only reason these common‑sense bills haven’t been written and passed is that corporate money pays politicians not to write them. That’s $5 billion a year in corporate lobbying and PAC spending — money that should be working for you, not against you.

✊ That’s why I’m running:

To end the corporate sabotage of government.
To put power back in the hands of the people.
To make the words “We the People” mean something again.

Every vote I cast will be bound, in writing and in public, to the verified will of IN‑09 — no party loyalty, no donor veto, no lobbyist carve‑outs.