My family and I moved to Connecticut in 2006. My two children (10-year-old Jacob and 7-year-old Sophie) attend public school. My wife Tracy is a student services coordinator at the Yale University Medical School.

I currently serve as the chairperson for the Cheshire Environment Commission. During the school year, I volunteer in both the Rookie Reader and Rotating Art programs at Chapman Elementary School.

For more than 25 years I have worked in commercial insurance underwriting.

I earned a BA from North Carolina State University in political science and an MA from Duke University in liberal studies.

"All of us have to have this irrational love for country. Which says yes, maybe it's impossible. But we're going to act even if it's impossible. And nothing I'm asking anybody to do is anything like the soldiers who go for love of country and fight our wars. Nobody is going to die from this fight. It doesn't take two years away from your family. All it takes is commitment, as citizens, not to let politicians continue to destroy our republic."  ~ Paul Romer

During the 2010 campaign I heard a Tea Party activist say: "It is called the House of Representatives, not the House of millionaires and career politicians." This may be the only thing a Tea Partier said with which I totally agree. And it got me thinking.