About Jim

Fryman Stands Out Politically
Jim Fryman seems comfortable being politically different.

"I think when you're in Washington, you have to vote the way you think is right and not worry so much aout getting reelected." -- Jim Fryman

By Mike Joseph (Links to the Centre Daily Times Web Site)

Jim's Bio

Mr. Fryman is 61 years old and was born and raised in Western Pennsylvania and spent much of his life on Lake Erie. He is proud to be an Eagle Scout.

After high school, he served in the US Navy as an electronics technician in the Marianna Islands. He married his wife, Patti, in 1970. They have a daughter and a son and two grandchildren.

Jim attended Clarion University on the GI Bill and received a BS in Education and had a year of graduate school. While attending Clarion he participated in the Institute on Human Ecology of Northwest Pennsylvania and was selected to attend the Institute on Man & Science in Rensselaerville, NY. He also did graduate work at the University of West Florida.

Mr. Fryman converted to Catholicism in 1973 but believes in the strict separation of church and state.

Jim has extensive work experience. He has worked in the General Motors auto plant in Lordstown, Ohio, as a teacher and coach at St. Mary’s mission school in Mary Esther, Florida, as a printed circuit board designer, as an IRS revenue officer in Florida and western Pennsylvania, and several other jobs. He recently retired from PennDot in Oil City, PA where he was a real estate appraiser and a negotiator.

Jim says, “My work with the federal and state governments is ironic because my father always told me, ‘Never, never trust the government’. I always did my part to make sure the government treated the public honestly, fairly, and with respect.”

I am limiting contributions from anyone outside of our district and if elected, I will not be obligated to any interest groups other than the people of our district and America.

I will vote for no new laws, without good reason, and will only vote to reduce taxes.