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.
Borough Issues
Michael is pro family, pro police, fire, & EMS, pro fiscal responsibility, pro industry, pro LNG pipeline, pro Port MacKenzie growth, pro farming & food security, and pro rural healthcare access.
Michael believes strongly in personal liberty, property rights, small government, fiscal responsibility, and will fight hard to represent District 1 in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Assembly with this in the forefront.
Platform
A- Address and assist in removing governmental barriers to health and food security throughout the Borough.
B- Bring in and promote industry growth to the Borough.
C- Conservative approach. This means ensuring fiscal responsibility, ethical conduct, transparency, and accountability is promoted throughout all Borough entities.
D- Do not promulgate any new development code. Rather, guide the Borough to utilize (or reform as needed) code already in place and strictly enforce it rather than create new code.