 He became noted in the late 1980s for his opposition to immigration, and was the first candidate for the Stop Immigration party in Hordaland in 1989.In one of the earliest notable acts by the party, it put an ad in the Christian newspaper "Dagen", where it called for Christians to fight together with the party to stop Norway from becoming "a Muslim country".In its first election, the 1991 local elections, it won one representative in the Karmøy municipal council, and one representative in the Hordaland county council.