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Presidential Campaign. After studying the Soviet Union and international relations in his college years, David joined the 1988 presidential campaign of Sen. Bob Dole (R-KS). From which experience, he began to appreciate the difference between political life and actual life.

Congressional Policy Analyst. After the Dole campaign, David joined a legislative caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, working as a policy analyst. In this role, he developed special expertise on issues relating to infrastructure and transportation, even authoring a landmark provision that promoted so-called public-private partnerships (PPPs) for highways.

Lessons Learned. During these years, David began to appreciate the substantial difference between that which was reported in the media and that which is supported by metrics, experience, and history (in other words, myth vs reality).

Finding the Beltway culture to be unsavory to his tastes, David left DC to embark on a career that commenced in manufacturing, then shifted to information technology (IT).

Manufacturing. David’s business career started at a top business school, at which he led an overhaul of the honor code. Upon graduation, David joined Xerox Corporation as a supervisor on an assembly line in upstate New York. During which experience, he developed his credo and method of being firm but fair as a manager and leader.

Information Technology (IT). While at Xerox, David moved into IT as part of the company’s so-called Y2K readiness initiatives. Finding that he had both a knack and a passion for making IT work successfully for people and their organizations, he adopted IT as his adulthood profession, winning national awards and emerging as a thought leader along the way.

As a partner in a boutique consultancy, David currently specializes in so-called low-code technologies, which represent a new wave in IT for delivering powerful applications at affordable costs for commercial businesses and public agencies alike.

Lessons Learned. From his two decades in IT, David has developed an acute appreciation for the difference between the goals that we might all share for a given endeavor and the various options that might be available for achieving those goals (i.e., the difference between what we want and how we might obtain it). We need to heed the distinction while being open to debate on both questions.

During this stretch of his career, David remained involved in public service.

Transportation. In 2015, David returned to public service as a commissioner on the Maryland Transportation Commission (MTC), a role from which he resigned once he realized that, as is the case at far too many boards and commissions created for political reasons, the job was all show and no substance.

Health. Far more gratifying in terms of making a meaningful difference, David received appointment at the start of 2016 to serve as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Maryland’s $14 billion Department of Health (MDH). A year later, David received promotion to Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief of Staff (CoS).

Selected Accomplishments. During his 30 months in topmost operational roles at MDH, David not only absorbed how things actually get done in state government, beneath the surface levels at which lifetime politicians float and drift, but he actually got some good things done. He did so not only by bringing top-tier experience in operations and technology but also by being an effective team leader and a successful team player across governmental offices and political parties.

Of his accomplishments, David is most proud of spearheading a team that safely and lawfully transitioned vulnerable nursing-home patients out of a sizable facility that had been found unfit to continue delivering care.

In addition, working with the Maryland judiciary and leaders in MDH’s Behavioral Health Administration (BHA), David drafted and orchestrated a plan that successfully addressed a decades-long problem at the intersection of criminal justice and behavioral health.

The problem was the socially unacceptable and constitutionally dubious situation of those in the criminal justice system with mental illness or substance abuse disorders (SUDs) being put on wait lists and denied their court-ordered health services for, in certain important categories of care, over 100 days on average. By the time David left MDH in 2018, the waits were down to 10 to 20 days on average, compliant with statute and consistent with constitutional rights, depending on the type of court-ordered care.

David is grateful to all with whom he collaborated on these and other accomplishments during his time at MDH.

Candidate for U.S. Congress. Upon leaving MDH in 2018, David stood as the Libertarian Party candidate for Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District (then as now represented by Rep. John Sarbanes (D)). David did so in order to provide his neighbors with an alternative to the appalling behavior and dysfunctional results coming from the two established parties in the nation’s capital.

Ready to Lead. David believes that these experiences, spanning across all branches of government and reaching from lowest worker to highest official, make him uniquely prepared to actually get good things done in Maryland for all Marylanders in the event that you, as a Maryland voter, elect him as your Governor, along with Christiana as your Lt. Governor, in 2022.

Republican Party:  No, thank you.  David exited the Republican Party in 2016 out of both despair with Bushism / Hoganism and dismay at Trumpism, the former being too insipid and negative, the latter being too demagogic and divisive.

Democratic Party:  No, thank you. From reading history, studying abroad, and serving as a leader, David knows that socialism, like all movements that place faith in government authorities and social elites, never has fulfilled and never will fulfill its vision and promise, despite its alluring slogans and rousing banners, due to it inevitably stifling economic dynamism, social vigor, and political choice by elevating the collective over the individual. When divorcing himself from the Republican Party, David therefore could not go over to the modern Democratic Party.

Libertarian Party:  Yes, please. David instead embraced the Libertarian Party (LP) as our best and perhaps only hope for sustaining the decade-by-decade and generation-by-generation advances in liberty, justice, and prosperity for all that has characterized our country’s undoubtedly sullied but ultimately redeeming history.

David finds the clarifying and unifying strength of the LP to be its core principle, which is: Rejection of the initiation of force to achieve personal, political, or social objectives. Which means: No bullying, no mobbing, and no coercion. No riots or insurrections, either.

In other words, David joined the LP because it is the only party that consistently respects the dignity of all individuals, regardless of race, gender, or sexuality; consistently insists on restraint and accountability from individuals, authorities, and elites; and consistently opposes the initiation of aggression or coercion of all types.

With every passing month, David finds himself more and more pleased and proud to be with the LP, despite its own idiosyncrasy and imperfection.

Your Chance for Change. David therefore encourages those of you seeking an alternative to the Democrats and the Republicans… those seeking government that is genuinely representative of both who we are and who we want to become… those looking for a course that is free of resentments and intrustions… to follow this campaign, learn about libertarianism, and make a difference by supporting and electing David as Governor and Christiana as Lt. Governor for Maryland in 2022.

David and his wife, Margaret, have lived in Annapolis since 2006. They are proud parents to a teenage daughter. Together, the three of them enjoy cooking, outdoor activities, and family gatherings.

In his younger days, prior to his knees and ankles giving way, David was a competitive distance runner. These days, he relaxes by cultivating his garden and cooking good eats.

David went to public high school in northeast Ohio. He received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College (NH). He received his business degree (MBA) from Carnegie Mellon University (PA).

Through his teens and twenties, David was a competitive distance runner, regularly winning individual and team trophies. At college, he ran with… and learned both dedication and sacrifice from… mates who became Olympic athletes.