EXPERIENCE

The Most Qualified and Experienced Candidate for Utah House 13

Bobbie (right) has worked as a resource class volunteer for five years at Holt Elementary School and for one year at West Point Elementary School. Previously she oversaw the scheduling of residential advisers at the Clearfield Job Corp Center.

I am a Davis County Democrat (except for one year experimenting with being a Libertarian in my twenties) following in the proud footsteps of my 91-year old father who was born in Ogden and later moved to Salt Lake City where I was born. I was born in 1955 (a year before Burger Bar in Roy opened) at the old St. Mark's Hospital across from the old Wasatch Springs Plunge on 300 West (I would later become the first volunteer at the opening of the Children's Museum of Utah which would use the same building as Wasatch Springs until they moved to the Gateway Mall) . Utah has been my home all my life, except for a brief time spent at New College in Sarasota, Florida. I later completed my formal education at the University of Utah, a couple miles from where I grew up. I finally came here to live in Clearfield City twenty-two years ago when I married my wife Bobbie.

We have now been together for 23 years and been quite busy during the last five years replacing our roof (picture right), installing a new air conditioner and furnace, fixing a broken sprinkler connection, repairing our washing machine, backflow regulator, waste disposal, garage door opener and replacing our oven that broke the day before our waste disposal went out.

Two years ago during my 2020 Utah House campaign, we contended with:

replacing our out of code 36 year-old "vinyl" venting for our dryer
cracking a rib after I had a ladder fall under me during a windstorm trying to reattached a loose shingle
dog bite while campaigning
chip on my credit card not working
smartphone dying
laptop dying
house almost catching on fire when a bush caught on fire from a firework on July 4th (picture right) and spending a month and a half at a Layton Hotel after having half our home restored for smoke and insulation damage.

Home is a house where Bobbie and I live in Clearfield and that's thirty-six years old, where my wife's parents lived and died and the City where my wife's brother and one of her two sisters live. Spent most of July and half of August in hotels in Layton in 2020 while our home was restored from the fire. We are still contending with the many personal items that were either broken or we believe were stolen during the restoration of our home.

MY EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

Professional

I have been a social worker for 18 years before I retired last year. I received my state clinical license in 2006 because "I care about people." I have helped, primarily using cognitive-behavioral therapy, hundreds of children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly to cope with:

anxiety
depression
disruptive behavior
suicidal ideation
substance abuse
employment issues
marriage and family problems

I "life coached," including the use of Gestalt and existential therapy, to help people find meaning in their lives and achieve the dreams they struggle to make into reality.

From 2015 to 2018, I also had the opportunity to teach a life skills course to over a hundred of inmate-students at the Davis County Jail consisting of:

Grief and Loss
Confidence & Self-Respect
Stress
Self Care
Emotional Intelligence
Communication
Relationships
Career and Employment

Prior to being a social worker, I held various professional positions spanning over twenty years of my life in local governments and mostly non-profit organizations serving people like you, "caring about people."