Candidate for
Member of the State Assembly; District 76

A 30 minute interview during which I discuss many major issues facing California is available for viewing online at: http://koct.org/video/detail/north_county_thomas_krouse

Believe it or not, they aren't actually "crazy" in Sacramento, it's worse than that - they are swimming in special-interest millions, and the money will keep flowing as long as we send legislators who give their lobbyists special access and give us only lip service.

Please send me to Sacramento. I will fight to:

• End pay-to-play government and lawmaking by special interest money;
• Re-establish the common sense California republic that is accountable to citizens not lobbyists;
• Create jobs with free market opportunities, and end anti-competitive Sacramento cronyism;
• Enforce accountability on bureaucrats who fail to do their jobs; and,
• Connect veterans to the services they earned, and punish criminality like secret waitlists.

For 25 years, I've worked in the real world of finance, entrepreneurship, and education. But, I didn't get an MBA to make a killing on Wall Street. I have been a Carlsbad homeowner for 16 years, and I have served our community as a board member of the North County Humane Society/SPCA, the Mayfield Community Clinic, and Californians for Electoral Reform.

As long as we send the same retread insiders back to Sacramento to cozy up to the fat cats, we will continue to get more failure, worse schools, less economic opportunity, and more taxes.

Let's start to change it all today. Send me to Sacramento.