DAVID ON THE ISSUES
COUNTY ATTORNEY FOR THE PEOPLE
Yavapai County needs an attorney for the people and not just the government.
The police power of the state is an awesome power. The government has the power to take your property and your freedom. As a free people, we need to keep this power in check.
Recent events have shown that the power of the state can be politicized and used as a weapon. The “witch hunt’ against President Trump and his supporters, the excessive sentences handed out to the January 6th defendants, and the “show trials” of police officers forced to defend themselves against fake charges of misconduct have all demonstrated the potential for prosecutorial abuse.
Our laws are intended not just to hold wrongdoer’s accountable, but to protect the rights of everyday citizens from government overreach and the abuse of power.
The County Attorney, along with the County Sheriff, shares responsibility for law enforcement. The Sheriff’s Office patrols our streets and highways and runs the County Jail. They investigate crimes and make arrests. But the County Attorney has sole responsibility for deciding if a particular case should be prosecuted. No one gets charged with a serious offense in Yavapai County unless the County Attorney files charges.
The County Attorney’s Office has both civil and criminal responsibility. They provide legal advice to the county government and represent the county in civil litigation. But the responsibility of the county attorney is about more than enforcing the law.
We must never lose sight of the fundamental purpose of our laws— to protect our rights and to keep us safe. Due process and fairness are fundamental values in the American system of justice. As County Attorney, I will seek to enforce the law with fairness and transparency and full respect for the rights of the people.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Public Safety is the first duty of government. Our government was formed to establish the Rule of Law, to protect our personal freedoms, to ensure our physical safety and to protect our homes and property.
Protecting the innocent and the vulnerable among us is foundational to civilized life. As County Attorney, I will enforce our laws, hold those who break our laws accountable, and remove from society those who prey on the innocent.
STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
Out of control immigration is changing our country forever. President Trump has reminded us that a country without borders is not a country. A stable democracy requires a high degree of social cohesion. Our Founders understood the importance of a common culture, shared values and ethnic heritage. They clearly stated the purpose of our nation’s founding in the Preamble to the Constitution, to “…secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.”
That’s why our country’s first immigration law, the Nationality Act of 1790, limited immigration to Europeans. Our Founders were not creating a multicultural or multiracial country based on diversity. They were creating a country for themselves and their “posterity’.
Excessive levels of immigration, particularly illegal immigration, are destroying our common culture and stability as a country. Our national heritage and traditional American values are under attack. Too much diversity inevitably leads to resentment, ethnic competition and tribalism. The oldest and most stable countries in the world are all based on a common culture, language, religion and ethnic heritage.
The widespread feeling among Americans that we have become a divided nation undergoing economic and social decline is not an illusion. The evidence is all around us. For the first time in our nation’s history, young Americans of today are destined to have a lower standard of living than their parents.
An open border and excessive levels of immigration are placing extraordinary and unsustainable demands on our communities. Illegal immigrants are flooding our schools, our health care system and filling our jails. They are creating crime and squalor in our neighborhoods and demanding government services that must be paid for by local citizens. In Yavapai County that means higher taxes for retirees and working people of modest means. Our leaders have shown they lack the political will to stop a migrant invasion that is destroying us.
As Yavapai County Attorney, I will have a Zero-Tolerance policy for illegal immigrants. I will never allow Yavapai County to become a sanctuary for those who are here illegally. I will work with the incoming Trump administration to identify, detain and deport illegals. As Yavapai County Attorney, I can’t control the borders of the United States or even the borders of Arizona. But I can control the borders of Yavapai County. And I will.
AMERICA FIRST CANDIDATE—-MAGA REPUBLCAN
I have been a Trump supporter since our former President first emerged on the political scene. The first time I heard him speak was as a Delegate to the Federation of Republican Assembly’s National Convention in Nashville in 2015. In January 2016, shortly before Arizona’s Presidential Preference Election, I helped found the Yavapai County Trump Committee. I am proud to have helped elect President Trump and continue to believe he was the most successful Republican President in my lifetime.
Make America Great Again, is one of the greatest political slogans in American history. It resonates so deeply with voters because it captures a truth that until now no other political figure has had the courage to say. Politicians like to tell us that America is the greatest nation in history. We’ve heard that so many times its become a cliché. But to say that we must Make America Great Again recognizes a deeper truth—within our own life time America has lost some essential part of its greatness.
Everyone knows it. But no politician before Trump had the courage to say it. To Make America Great Again will require new leaders, firm measures, and personal sacrifice from those who enter public life. President Trump has given us the playbook. He is our best hope for the future.
I describe myself as an America First candidate. That term has entered the political lexicon in response to elected officials who place the interests of other countries and other peoples ahead of our own. As an America First candidate, I am an unapologetic advocate for the people and culture of the Historic American Nation.
I am an American Nationalist and supporter of Western Civilization and traditional American values. I oppose the “woke” agenda of progressives who would use authoritarian measures in pursuit of a utopian “social equity” at the cost of our freedom and way of life. If this makes me a target of the liberal media and the RINO establishment in the Republican Party, so be it.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVE
Like most of our Founders, I am a man of conservative views. I am a student of history and a Constitutionalist. As a lawyer, I have worked with the Constitution and the laws of our state and nation to ensure that the rights of my clients are protected.
My highest political value is freedom. I believe in a government of limited powers because I understand that a government of unlimited power is inconsistent with freedom. I believe in a strict interpretation of the Constitution and subscribe to a philosophy of law championed by the late Justice Scalia and the Federalist Society which he helped found.
As County Attorney, my duty is the follow the law as it is given to us by our legislators and courts. Where I believe the law is out of date or ineffective and should be updated or reformed, I will not hesitate to speak out and seek changes thru the legislative process.
As a former state legislator and member of the House Judiciary Committee, I understand how laws are made. But the County Attorney exercises executive and not legislative authority. The duty of a County Attorney is to follow the laws of our state and nation as they are given to us to through our elected representatives.
FOUR PILLARS OF FREEDOM: GOD, COUNTRY, FAMILY AND THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
Taking God out of our schools and public life was a turning point in our nation’s history. All civilizations are founded on religious faith. Without God, there is no civilization.
The United States was founded on religious tolerance. The First Amendment to our Constitution forbids the federal government from establishing a religion. We are free to practice the religion of our choice or no religion at all. But the Constitution does not forbid religious expression in either private or public life.
I believe America is dying because we have given in to the secularists who are trying to take God out of everything. As an attorney and as a public official, I have been tolerant of all faiths and respect the right of conscience in matters of religion. But I make no apology for my own faith and acceptance of the magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church. Deus, Patria et Familia.
As an American, I believe the United States has been a force for great good in the world. We have set an example for democratic values and the freedom and dignity of Individuals. Our gift to the world has been Constitutional government and the rule of law. There was a time not long ago when our status as a bastion of freedom and decency among nations was unquestioned.
But in recent decades America has lost its way. We are still a great military power, but internal divisions are eroding our unity and stability as a country. We are becoming a nation divided against itself. Unless we are able to reconstitute ourselves and find a new basis to justify our existence as a nation, we will pass away like so many nations before us.
The building block of society is the family. Political systems and economic systems come and go. But through good times and bad the bonds of blood endure. No one cares about us more than our own family and no one loves our children more than we do. School teachers and social workers and doctors and lawyers may do their best to look after us. But they cannot take the place of family. In today’s America, the family is under attack.
We are told that “alternative families” of single moms or same sex couples are just as good as traditional families. But there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary. I fully respect the right of individuals to chose their own lifestyle and family structure. But from the beginning of civilization, the traditional family has been the foundation of society. As a political figure, I support traditional family values.
Finally, the United States Constitutional is the foundation of our nation and way of life. It defines our rights and freedoms as a people. It set forth a government of limited powers with maximum personal freedom for the individual. It has allowed our people to prosper and flourish. It was written by men and is not a perfect document. It has been amended 27 times. But it has guided us since 1787 and continues to safeguard our freedoms.
The Second Amendment right to bear arms is the right that guarantees all of our other rights granted to a free people under the Constitution.
The Supreme Court has determined that the right to bear arms is a personal right that is fundamental to self defense and cannot be unreasonably infringed by the government. As County Attorney, I am committed to protecting the Second Amendment rights of our citizens.
I will oppose any unconstitutional efforts under the guise of so-called “Red Flag” laws to limit the rights of law abiding citizens to own and possess firearms or to curtail those rights without due process of law.
As a lawyer and political figure, I support a strict interpretation of the Constitution that limits the reach of federal power into the prerogatives of the states and the fundamental rights of the people.
I am a “Tenth Amendment” Constitutionalist and support the principle that all powers not delegated to the United States, “are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Please join me in the Fight for Freedom.
