I am Sarah Zabel, and I am an Independent candidate for Congress in Idaho’s first district.

Some quick facts about me:

• I am a veteran with more than 30 years of active military service, a retired Air Force major general.

• I am a centrist. “Centrist” does not mean “We can’t make a decision, so let’s do nothing.” It means “We have a lot of common ground. Let’s work from common interests and start solving our problems.”

• I was a Republican throughout my career, but left the party when it went in the MAGA direction. I am not a “normie Republican” in that I depart from traditional party doctrine in some key areas, including taxation and immigration. (We need to collect sufficient revenue to run the country, and legal immigrants are an essential part of our workforce.)

• We can solve our problems. We’ve solved equally challenging problems before. We know how to do this.

Break the logjam. Solve the problems.