Meet Michael
Military Family
Michael has a direct family line in every war fought since the Battle of the Wilderness (for the North) during the Civil War. Liberty is not just a concept for his family, they fight for it.
Husband
Michael met his wife, Amanda, a lifelong Alaskan, while stationed at Fort Richardson, AK in 2008. After spending their engagement with him deployed to Iraq for his second tour of duty, they soon tied the knot and enjoy spending any free time working on their homestead, hunting & fishing, riding machines of all types, and enjoying all Alaska has to offer.
Small Business Owner
After the Army and some time working for the State of Alaska, Michael and Amanda then decided to follow their dreams of owning their own business and opened a food truck, Happy Bison Barbeque, which was known all around the Valley for a couple of very busy seasons.
Platform
1. Conservative approach to government. This means ensuring fiscal responsibility rather than new taxes and debt as well as ensuring ethical conduct, transparency, and accountability is the culture throughout all Borough entities.
2. Protect personal liberty and fight infringing property code. I will guide the Borough to utilize or reform existing code as needed to ensure personal liberty is protected for all residents and stop infringement on property owners.
3. Support industry growth and robust infrastructure by guiding the growth of a healthy economy through private investors, not more government. A healthy economy, not taxes, builds strong infrastructure.
Borough Issues
Michael believes strongly in personal liberty, property rights, fiscal responsibility and small government, and will fight hard to represent District 1 in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Assembly with this in the forefront.