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 Bob has lived in Alaska for 31 years: in Adak, Kenai and Nikiski. He continues to teach in the Kenai Peninsula School District where he has been since 1978, and at Nikiski High School since it opened in 1988. He also teaches as an adjunct faculty member at Kenai Peninsula College, drives a Zamboni occasionally, and has been a radio sports broadcaster for hockey, football and Peninsula Oilers baseball. Bob also enjoys umpiring American Legion baseball.
Best known throughout the state as a prolife activist, Bob organized and led the Alaska Rescue Project, getting help from people of many different faiths, in 1988 and 1989. Because of ARP's efforts on February 13, 1989, a little Yupik boy was saved from abortion and born in September of that year, a living testament to the sanctity of life at all stages.
The prolife movement was reinvigorated and Bob launched a seemingly hopeless campaign for the U.S. Senate against an invincible Ted Stevens in the 1990 primary. Working with the volunteers necessary throughout the state from the prolife movement, Bob articulated a sensible, conservative platform that demonstrated he was anything but a one-issue candidate.
Debating Stevens on statewide TV for 90 minutes a week before the August 28 primary, Bob scored the incumbent on a host of issues, regarding federal land-use policy, subsistence, outrageous congressional payraises masterminded by Stevens, and the incumbent's devotion to abortion on demand.
 On election eve, Bob garnered 34,000 votes to Stevens' 81,000, a near-perfect 70/30 split, despite being outspent $700,000 to $66,000.
Bob became president of Alaska Right to Life in 1995, and attended the 1996 Republican National Convention in San Diego as a die-hard member of the Buchanan Brigade. Told that he would have no future with the Republicans unless he 'played ball' and voted for the hapless Bob Dole, Bob, along with future state legislator John Coghill and one other delegate, refused to budge.
In 2000, Pat Buchanan asked Bob, Ed Wassell and future state legislator Bob Lynn to help him win the Reform Party nomination for president.
 In 2004, Bob joined the AIP and encouraged its support of the Constitution Party and its presidential candidate. Bob attended the convention and hosted its presidential standard bearer, Michael Peroutka.
Bob sees what is happening to our country and state. Tired of false options, he agrees with the libertarian viewpoint that there is no difference between the Republicans and Democrats, and wants to halt socialism's 'tax-and-spend' gospel, sympathizing with the Ron Paul movement.
America is being erased like a dot-matrix picture right before our eyes. The federal government poses grave threats to freedom that brook no further delay. A citizen-candidate is what Bob is offering fellow Alaskans.
 He enjoys ptarmigan hunting with his dogs nearly eight months of the year as his top recreational pursuit, skiing and snowshoeing during the winter months. Bob fishes to put salmon, halibut, trout and pike in the freezer for the winter. Bob counts 15 caribou and numerous black bears as big game animals he has bagged.
Bob has been married to the former Rosemary Flaig for 30 years, herself a music teacher and valiant supporter of Bob! They have three children: Mario, a graduate of Notre Dame teaching in an Anchorage private school; R. Quincy, who just completed 2 years in the front-office of the Texas Wildcatters of the ECHL; and Elena, Alaska's Junior Miss in 2005, studying Opera at Colorado-Boulder.
And of course, there was Tundra, Bob's late springer spaniel, and Bosco, his Brittany, who have accompanied him on all his hunts.
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