The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.

In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.

You elected government officials to make decisions and it's about time they started making good ones

No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.

According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.