DAVID A FLIPPO

NAME: David Alton Flippo

AGE:  64

PARTY AFFILIATION:  Republican 

DAY JOB:  

Financial advisor and small business owner

EDUCATION: 

Bachelor’s degree, Montana State University
Master of Public Administration, Valdosta State University

HOW LONG YOU HAVE LIVED IN NEVADA:  

Over a decade

WRITE A BRIEF (TWO TO THREE SENTENCES) SUMMARY OF YOUR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE THAT WOULD ENABLE YOU TO PERFORM THE DUTIES OF THIS OFFICE:

I served over two decades in the United States Air Force, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel after commanding more than 1,000 Airmen. During my service, I deployed to Kuwait and was forward deployed into Iraq numerous times. After retiring, I spent approximately a decade working in the energy industry on Alaska’s North Slope before becoming a financial advisor and small business owner.

WHAT IS YOUR TOP PRIORITY IF ELECTED? 

Making Nevada more affordable. I want to reduce wasteful federal spending, cut unnecessary regulations, expand American energy production, and lower the tax burden on working families and small businesses.

IN JUST A FEW SENTENCES: WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM FACING OUR COUNTRY, AND HOW WOULD YOU FIX IT?

The federal government has become too expensive, too intrusive, and too disconnected from the people it serves. Congress needs to control spending, enforce our laws and border, restore American energy production, and return more decision-making authority to families, businesses, states, and local communities.

CONSUMER PRICES, GAS PRICES, AND HOUSING COSTS ARE HISTORICALLY HIGH, WHILE WAGES HAVE NOT KEPT PACE IN NEVADA. WHAT IS YOUR PLAN TO HELP NEVADANS WHO ARE STRUGGLING FINANCIALLY?

Washington cannot continue spending, taxing, regulating, and borrowing without consequences for working families. I support cutting wasteful federal spending, reducing regulations that increase the cost of building homes and running businesses, expanding domestic energy production to lower transportation and utility costs, and keeping taxes low so Nevadans can keep more of what they earn.

WHERE DO YOU STAND ON THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF AI, AND THE PROLIFERATION OF DATA CENTERS? WHAT ROLE DO YOU SEE NEVADA TAKING IN EACH?

America should lead the world in artificial intelligence rather than surrender that advantage to China or other competitors, but we must do it in a way that empowers the American worker. As a Constitutionalist, I believe decisions that directly affect a community should be made as close to that community as possible.
Nevada can benefit from innovation and technology investment, but data centers must make sense for the communities where they are built. Water is one of Nevada’s most precious resources, and no community should be forced to sacrifice its long-term water security so a massive development can be imposed on it. Local residents should have a real say in how their water, energy, infrastructure, and land are used.
If a community in my district does not want a data center imposed on it, I will stand with that community. If necessary, I will stand in front of the bulldozers with them.

IN ONE SENTENCE: WHAT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT THING VOTERS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT YOU?

I spent over two decades serving our country in the Air Force, followed by careers in American energy and small business, and I will bring that experience and accountability to Congress.

YES OR NO: WILL YOU ACCEPT THE RESULTS OF THIS ELECTION, WHETHER YOU WIN OR LOSE?  

Yes