Platform and Philosophy

The Treasurer's office is a stewardship job, not a political job. The Treasurer does not set tax rates or tax policy. The office safeguards public money, collects what the law requires, invests it safely, and moves it where it belongs — on time, every time. On the duties of this office I do not have an ideology; I have a spreadsheet. Elect a practitioner, not a politician.

My commitments as Treasurer

  • Automated tax-cap verification. Software that checks, every year, that the correct property-tax cap was applied to every parcel in Clark County — and notifies you proactively if an error is found. You should not have to audit your own county.
  • Online everything, 24/7 — and more in-person access, not less. Paying a tax bill should never require taking time off work. Every service the office provides should be available online around the clock, while in-person service hours expand.
  • Your money, in plain sight. Plain-language, near-real-time reporting on the county's funds, investments, and earnings. Public dashboards are body cameras for public money. I chaired the audit-and-risk committee of a billion-dollar financial institution; I welcome scrutiny — it is the job.
  • Prevention over punishment. Clearer bills, human outreach before deadlines, payment plans that keep families out of the penalty spiral, and financial-literacy partnerships. And when a tax sale produces excess proceeds, those dollars belong to the family — they will be returned, not kept.

How I will invest public money

Safety first, liquidity second, yield third. A conservative, laddered portfolio that matures into the county's payment calendar — because a loss taken to raise cash is a planning failure. Stress-tested against bad days, and published in plain language: holdings, maturities, and performance. The Treasurer's investment job is not to be clever. It is to be right, every day, with other people's money.

My political philosophy

I am a Libertarian, and you deserve to know how I think — even where it reaches well beyond the Treasurer's lane.

  • Rights are worth keeping. "Each time we erode away at a right, we may get some temporary sense of security but long-term we are jeopardizing the ideals of freedom for which this nation stands." I wrote that in 2018, and I still measure every policy against it.
  • Consenting adults. As long as an act takes place between consenting adults, I do not see why the government needs to be involved.
  • Human rights, not American rights. The rights protected by the Constitution are human rights — not American rights.
  • Treatment over punishment. Our approach to crime in America needs to focus more on treatment and less on punishment.
  • Markets over mandates. I spent my career inside one of the most regulated industries in America. I know what rules actually cost, which ones protect people, and which ones only protect incumbents.
  • Accountability for power. Cameras belong on state power, not on citizens: body cameras for police, public dashboards for public money.

My record is public and consistent. My 2018 campaign positions are still online at tim2018.com, my Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey is on the record, and my ActiVote policy-survey answers say the same things. Voters deserve answers on the record.