He entered state government in 1993, after successfully running as a Republican for the Kansas House of Representatives in the 1992 elections, and won re-election to three additional two-year terms representing a district that included all of the City of Leawood, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, MO. In the 2000 election, he was elected to the Kansas Senate. Kansas Senate's 7th district, which includes Northeast Johnson County, Kansas.
