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While we can’t choose where we are born, once our jobs and careers release their grip on us we can live anywhere we want.  My wife and I chose Southport.  She would be moving back to her native state and closer to family near Raleigh and Sanford, but I was the one who insisted we move to North Carolina.

My first experiences in the South were visits to my in-laws and I became enraptured with the Southern lifestyle.  It is more calm, more kind, more friendly and filled with regional pride and loyalty I’d never before experienced.  Southport has all of these traits–and more. While I’ve been told many times that I’ll never be a “true” Southerner, I certainly feel like I belong here.

My goal on moving to Southport was to fully embrace the local lifestyle.  I wanted to toss aside many of the influences and expectations I acquired from living in other areas, and everybody who knows me from my previous home says I’m a better person for it.

I began my life here writing a blog on the Star News Brunswick Voice web site entitled “The Yankee Traitor” where I wrote about the inability (or outright refusal) of recent, non-Southern residents to embrace the attitudes and mind set of the longtime locals and native Southerners. My fear is that Southern culture is being overwhelmed by newcomers who insist on making over their new home in the image of their previous one.  I have no such agenda, especially when it comes to local government.  Remember, I’m from California.

What I do bring to the the office of Alderman is honesty, an open mind, experience in business management and politics, and an insistence we solicit and use public input when making decisions.  I have no agenda other than to make Southport government transparent and responsive to the needs and desires of our citizens.  I’m also not bound to any special interest group or influenced by personal issues or grudges against anybody in our city.
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Education
California State University
 (Life Sciences)
 University of the Pacific School of Dentistry
 (Doctor of Dental Surgery degree)
 University of Maryland Dental School
 (Postdoctoral Certificate in Periodontics)
 DeAnza College
 (Film & Video)
Work Experience
Major, US Air Force
        Dental Specialist Officer, Periodontist
        Awarded US Air Force Commendation Medal
 Private Practice in Periodontics, San Jose, CA
 Periodontal research and teaching doctoral students
        University of Maryland Dental School
        University of the Pacific School of Dentistry

Community Involvement
Southport Board of Adjustment
 Graduate, Brunswick County Leadership Program
 Coordinator, pilot project to improve access to food
          stamps in Brunswick County
 Webmaster for new City of Southport website
 Tour leader and docent, Oak Island Lighthouse
Member of Local Organizations
 Friends of the NC Maritime Museum, Southport
 NC Sheriff’s Association
 NC Coastal Federation
 NC Coastal Land Trust
 Southport Lions Club
 Southern Environmental Law Center
 Friends of the NC Maritime Museum in Southport
 Board Member, NC 4th of July Festival