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PRIORITIES
Freedom is on the ballot.
People are calling for a new generation of leadership across levels of government. Leaders who understand that only when we learn from the hard work & sacrifices of our parents and grandparents, will we build a future worthy of our children and grandchildren.
Equal Reproductive Rights
I believe in the freedom of equal reproductive rights and personal bodily autonomy for all New Hampshire citizens.
The Executive Council has voted multiple times to defund and reject Federal funding for women’s healthcare and education, reproductive healthcare, and common sense sex education.
Without equal reproductive rights, women’s and girls’ fundamental freedom as equal citizens is undermined. birth control, cancer screenings, preventative healthcare, emergency contraception, and control over when women become pregnant have become the civil rights issue of our generation.
I will vote to restore, maintain, and respect basic freedoms and equal reproductive rights for all Americans.
Environmental Responsibility
I believe we all have a right to clean air, water, and soil. These fundamental freedoms are implicit in both state and US constitutional guarantees to life, liberty, protection of private property, and pursuit of happiness.
I have served on the state PFAS (Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances) commission for the last two years, and my experience has made clear that the state must hold corporate polluters accountable for cleaning up the contamination they caused. Taxpayers should not be required to subsidize their own chemical polluters.
Clean air and water are essential to our New Hampshire way of living, from the lakes in the North Country to the waves on the Seacoast, to the very air in our lungs and water in our wells and faucets.
Simply put, it’s time to put people over politics, and a clean environment for our children over corporate profits.
Public Education
Freedom from censorship and equitable access to public education are cornerstones of American democracy.
Our community, schools, teachers, and children deserve to teach and learn free from outside interference. We must fight attempts to politicize education for personal profit or gain.
We must defend our constitutional freedoms on the Executive Council by appointing education commissioners who believe in the separation of church and state rather than seeking to erode it.
Your public tax dollars belong in your public schools.
Efforts to privatize public education under the guise of “parental choice” are dishonest and use the government to funnel public funds to private companies. This is a dangerous mechanism designed to force feed our kids anti-democratic, ahistorical, unproven, & unhealthy curriculum.
New Hampshire is ground zero for the invention of public schools, and home to the best public schools in America. Let’s fight to keep them free.
Cannabis Legalization
Our “Live Free or Die” state is the only state in New England to prohibit the regulated sale of cannabis to individuals over the age of 21.
While this is a legislative issue, we need an Executive Council willing to work with the governor to ensure contracts and permits for legalized recreational cannabis are expedited and approved responsibly, once legislation is signed into law.
Public funds from the sale of cannabis should be limited to funding mental health and public education.
I believe in both the free market and the freedom of personal responsibility. I will be your pro-cannabis Executive Councilor.
Working Families
Families look different than they did 60 years ago — Health care and energy costs are more expensive than ever. Housing is less affordable than ever. And New Hampshire consistently ranks as the state least supportive of higher education
As a working dad who has both rented and owned a home in New Hampshire, I understand first-hand how steep the climb feels for families in New Hampshire.
We feel the stresses of rising energy costs, inflation, and housing & healthcare systems not built for us. Inaccessible at best; unaffordable, at worst.
My daughter has attended both private and public schools. I have lived in both 1 and 2-income homes. I started working when I was 13-years-old (under the table), and have always worked a minimum of 2 jobs, to this day.
The only difference now is that my second job is public service, and I don’t get paid—-I work for you.
We will only achieve a government that represents working families when the voices of working families are reflected in our government.
I will be your voice on the Executive Council, and advocate for true “pro-family” policies.
Housing, Infrastructure, Public Safety & Federal Funding
New Hampshire is a state that pays more in Federal taxes than it receives in Federal aid. The Executive Council has on numerous occasions, rejected Federal funding. When we reject Federal funding, it downshifts costs and forces towns to raise property taxes.
We pay more than our share in Federal taxes, and we need to bring more back home—to the local communities and pockets of the seniors, families, and people who pay.
This will lower local tax burdens while still adequately funding public schools and special education; clean water infrastructure; roads, bridges, & public safety infrastructure for fire, hospitals, public works, & police; and making sure our local heroes get paid what they are worth (staffing).
I believe it is possible to look out for ourselves while also protecting the people who show up first for the people we love the most.
Judicial Appointments & Agency Heads
I believe the people of New Hampshire have a right to appoint qualified, uncompromised, apolitical judges and agency heads who believe in the law and the purpose of the agencies they are tasked to lead.
We must not confirm activist judges with clear histories of pre-set political agendas or corporate conflicts of interest.
We must appoint leaders to the departments of education, environmental services, health and human services, transportation, corrections, and others who actually believe in public education, a clean environment, equitable access to healthcare, well maintained infrastructure, and public safety.