Ian Gilyeat

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Gilyeat, Ian (write-in candidate)

Phone: (602) 692-3818
Email: ig@electiangilyeat.com
Website: www.electiangilyeat.com
450 E. Sagebrush Street, Gilbert, AZ 85296

(Mail: 7536 E. Angus, Scottsdale, AZ 85251)

Age: 51. (7/23/59, Bremerton, WA).

Arizona since: 1995.

Occupation:Chief marketing officer, I.R., Gilyeat & Company, since 2007; senior vice president, Direct Alliance Corporation, 1999-07; executive vice president/partner, New Media Corporation, 1997-99.

Marital: Married (Jan, homemaker).

Children: 9.

Religious preference: LDS.

Education: Attended BYU, studied Germanic languages.

Political experience includes: None.

Memberships have included: Gerson-Lehrman Council of Advisors; National Association of Corporate Directors; Boy Scouts of America; Direct Marketing Association; Magazine Publishers Association; Youth Developmental Enterprises.

Interests: God, family, country and business; personal interests including running, wakeboarding and family history research.

Issues:

Political influence: Frederic Bastiat, and his treatise captured in “The Law”.

Top priority:Protecting the property, life and individual freedoms of American citizens. This means always pushing back on the constant encroachment of the federal government into our personal and business lives. We need less government not more; more personal responsibility and self-reliance.

Respected opponent: Dean Martin, Arizona state treasurer. It’s never easy to endure personal tragedy, and doing so in public is even more difficult. Dean seems to have done this, continued to serve well and maintained an optimistic outlook on life.

Wall Street bailout: Congress holds the purse strings, not the executive branch. As such, I hold Congress responsible for the bailouts in spite of the influence of the executive branch. Government bailouts contradict the nature of the Constitution and should not happen. The Constitution is a divinely inspired document that protects the right of every business to succeed or fail according to free-market principles. We live in a $15 trillion dollar economy. No company is too big to fail. When we remove the risk of failure we support and reward foolish business decisions.

Stimulus Act: I am opposed to bailouts and stimulus plans from the federal government in every aspect. Bailouts violate correct principles established in the Constitution; they encourage the government to play favorites; they reward and insulate lousy business decisions; they reinforce the need for corrupt and self-serving lobbying groups; they reward and build corrupt government entities. Bailouts and stimulus plans are nothing more than legalized plunder.

Health care overhaul:I am opposed to federal health care mandates including the most recent health care bill commonly referred to as ObamaCare. Health care decisions must remain in the hands of the individual first, then the family, the community and finally the state. The federal government has no place in the middle of health care decisions. I am opposed to any and all federal mandates that require citizens to purchase health care insurance from anyone – especially the federal government. Federally mandated health care violates individual freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution. It requires the taking of personal property from one citizen in order to give to another. This law will encourage class warfare and strip individuals of their personal obligations to care for their family and neighbors. In particular, this bill demonstrates how massive new regulations create fear, uncertainty and doubt in the private sector. It demonstrates how unrelated funding for favored projects like student loans can be buried in complex legislation. Federal health care plans are monopolistic in nature and wrong.