Why Am I running for Asheville City Council?

As an Asheville native, I have lived the changes, seen the growth, and faced the challenges right alongside you. Now over a year out from Hurricane Helene, Asheville is faced with a $30 million deficit and lots of questions. This is a critical time and election for our future. I offer new leadership focused on practical solutions with better accountability, communication, and coordination for our City. I am focused on solutions not sides, working hard to engage voters that traditionally do not participate. This election is all about Asheville - It’s time to gets things done without the drama and move forward together.

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Personal & Business

I was born at St. Josephs Hospital and grew up in the Beaverdam community of North Asheville, I attended Asheville City Schools and graduated Asheville High School in 1986. After graduating Florida State with a Political Science degree, I worked in politics and communications in Washington and Raleigh before moving back to Asheville in 1998. I now live in South Asheville with my wife Spencer and we have one daughter, Sydney, who is a middle school teacher in Greensboro

Over the last 26 years, my business experience in Asheville and North Carolina includes:

  • Co-founder and partner of Adapt Public Relations, a public relations firm in downtown Asheville since 2013.

  • Executive Director of NC Industrial Hemp Association, statewide trade association representing farmers and companies throughout the industry

  • Partner in Seventy-two dpi, a full service web design firm in Asheville

  • Co-founder of Local Edge Radio, an afternoon drive time talk show on Clear Channel Communications (880 the Revolution)

Contribute

Platform

  • Focus on INFRASTRUCTURE and improving our CORE SERVICES

  • Support for POLICE, FIRE, AND FIRST RESPONDERS

  • Committed to LONG TERM FINANCIAL PLANNING

  • Focus on COMPETITIVE WAGES and ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT