John Gotts has been starting companies since he was ten years old and on the Web with his father since 1993.  John has started web companies focused on search, wikis, online auctions, file-sharing, computer security, email protection, credit card reward tracking and offline pursuits in agriculture, electric vehicles and hydrogen generation.

In July 2009 John moved to Palo Alto, California and co-founded Chumly, a social media super site, which enhances the use of Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites and blogs.  In the forested foothills above Silicon Valley, John worked globally with people who became dedicated to the task of making Chumly the best place to manage many social sites from a single, simple location.

John Gotts was a candidate for State Representative in Washington and as a delegate of Obama ran as a Democrat.  John was brought up in a family of Democrats, who both came from a long line of Michigan Republicans.  After being completely let down by the Obama administration in every way, John will run as a Republican, sympathetic to the idea that we need social programs to help seniors, veterans, education, libraries and other important services but we can only do that through healthy industry providing tax revenue to support those services.

John believes embracing the Silicon Valley investment model in Boise could attract innovative small companies to come to Boise or could spring from our universities to become the next Microns and HPs but also the next Google, Facebook, Twitter, Tesla, Bloombox, etc.

Living-wage jobs in manufacturing, service and skilled labor would boost not only tax revenue but would mean parents could spend more time with their children and we'd have well-funded education and health-care for the state.  Jobs and the family will be the main focus of John's campaign.  John will be campaigning for Idaho State Senate in 2012 from Boise, Idaho.