Republican – Legislative District 13 House

Phone: (623) 935-5589

Address: 608 N La Loma Ave, Litchfield Park, AZ 85340

Age: 61. (08/25/52, Nogales, AZ).

Arizona since: Birth

Occupation: Councilmember, City of Litchfield Park, since 2010; president/treasurer, Hathaway Enterprises, Inc., since 1994; vice president-investments, UBS (formerly Piper Jaffray/USBancorp Piper Jaffray), 2000-07; financial advisor, sales assistant, Prudential Securities, 1993-2000; White House liaison, U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs, 1989-93; director, recruitment support, The White House, 1989.

Marital: Married

Education: CPA, 1987; B.S./B.A., accounting, ASU, 1984.

Political experience: Councilmember, City of Litchfield Park, since 2010; volunteer, McCain and McCain/Palin, 2008; volunteer and paid staff, Bush/Quayle Campaign, 1988.

Interests: Counted cross-stitch, singing, reading.

Two biggest issues: Budget: fiscal responsibility. Work toward structurally balanced budget, with revenue matched to expenditures and realistic revenue projections used. Competitiveness: Making Arizona more competitive for jobs. Target investments in education to use as an economic development tool. Predictable environment: taxes, workforce, education. Spending priorities focused on economic development. Work on Arizona’s “perception” issue.

Budget priorities: Education: The Constitution demands we provide a free public education. This is an area where our investment should have a return. We should set high standards, then encourage ingenuity and innovation, reward success, and support all options of public education that produce the outcomes that meet the mark. Health care: Twice voters mandated coverage to certain segments of our population. With the federal government offset, it is revenue generating at this point. There is no guarantee this will continue to be the case. We must be developing a contingency plan to meet the voter-approved mandate before the projections say we will need to use general budget funds. Avoiding the crisis is a much better way to manage our future than waiting for a crisis. Economic development: By making our state more competitive, with homegrown companies being started, or expanding, or others relocating to Arizona, more revenue will be generated.

Fiscal philosophy: Fiscally conservative.

Common Core: First, it is what we have adopted. I support high, measurable standards – Arizona needs to be competitive.
Local control is critical, and the curriculum is local control with Common Core.

Gifts to elected officials: Reforms are needed, and this is an area I am interested in working on.

Transparency in government: Transparency is critical. All citizens must have a way to know what is happening – to be informed. If everyone had computer access, online might work, but they do not. We live in a technology world, and I want to take advantage of technology to streamline and ease the burden on businesses and government, but I don’t believe technology is advanced to the point for us to only have online public notices.

Pro-life / pro-choice: Pro-life.

Public policy advice: Respected legislative peers and experts in the specific policy area being addressed.

Landis, Diane

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