I will represent the entire County. I live on my 3rd generation family farm in southern Campbell County.
I own one of the oldest businesses in Newport, established in 1874.
I travel Rt. 8, the AA highway, and US 27 or Licking Pike every day. I know and experience the entire County every day.
I am on the Board of Directors of the Campbell County Conservancy. We are dedicated to preserving and restoring Campbell County’s natural areas and way of life. Campbell County’s $75,000 North Star Study states that Campbell County’s rural appeal is a huge economic asset. I am intimately involved with preserving and promoting this asset through my involvement with the Farmland Work Group, the Campbell County Conservancy and the Campbell County Soil Conservation District. We get one chance at this. It is the future of Campbell County.
Economic development is best achieved by making Campbell County an attractive place to live and work. We need to lead by example.
Campbell County Fiscal Court should comply with the Northern Kentucky Sewer District’s rainwater deflection program. Some businesses are already complying with this and all of us will have to in the near future. The new Campbell County Administration building is not in compliance with the Newport Green Space Ordinance, but you would have to be if you built a new building in Newport.
I was Business Representative to the Newport Citizens Advisory Council and New-Pac. These two organizations began and promoted Newport’s renaissance. We now have a viable Business District and improved community.
Campbell County farmers are very important to the County’s appeal and a major economic force. They are the highest taxed and regulated farms in all of Kentucky’s 120 counties. Excessive taxing and regulating farmers is taxing locally grown food, which is a regressive tax.
Campbell County tax forms and procedures are too complicated and need to be revamped. They are the most complicated and invasive tax forms we execute, even more than Federal, State and Newport.
It is time that someone who can represent the entire county is elected and I am that candidate.