Joe's Opening Remarks at the League of Women Voter Forum on February 18, 2004

I have been a Miami Township Trustee for the past 14 years.  I hold a bachelors degree in Public Administration from Northern Kentucky University as well as being an Ohio Certified Public Manager.  In addition, I am well known as the Administrator for the Clermont County Engineer’s Office. 

A 15-year veteran police officer- turned- public administrator, I know all too well the importance of safety and security of a community.  I understand the cause and effects of having tough and enforceable laws on the books.  I even  wrote a law that was introduced by the late Rep. Sam Bateman and later adopted that kept work related auto accidents of safety-service and highway maintenance personnel from being used to increase their personal insurance rates.  

•  I believe in the total sanctity of innocent human life. From cradle to grave.

•  I believe in the fervent protection of our United States Constitution, the bill of Rights and all the Constitution’s amendments

•  I believe in tough laws on crime.  I am against the legalization of illicit drugs.

•  I believe that the current form of Ohio’s taxation of it’s citizens is overly and aggressively progressive and needs to be reformed.

•  I believe that school funding is a state wide issue and needs to be dealt with immediately to relive it’s dominant reliance on local citizens property taxes.

•  I believe the bureaucracy of Ohio state government has to be dismantled in order to encourage business growth to provide for jobs for our families.

•  I believe in protecting the natural family structure, of marriage between one man and one woman.

These are but a few of my passionate beliefs. Time does not allow me to go further.

A life-long resident of Miami Township, I live in the house I grew up in with my wife Patti of 28 years.  We have four children.  Christopher, a 2002 graduate of the USAF Academy is commissioned as a lieutenant and a pilot in the US Air Force. Julie is a senior pharmacy student on an academic scholarship at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio.  Daniel is a sophomore business college student at the University of Cincinnati.  Timothy is an 8^th grade student at St. Columban School in Loveland.

The issue that has to be faced immediately is to correct and then heal the climate in Ohio that has chased away businesses that provide jobs and help relieve the individual tax burden.  To ensure that our citizens feel safe and secure in their own homes through tough and enforceable criminal laws is paramount. Certainly not the least of issues is the vigilant protection of our constitutional rights and the rights of those not able to protect and secure for themselves.

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Joe's Opening Remarks at the League of Women Voter Forum on February 18, 2004