Occupation/Current Position
Retired paralegal
Education
Northridge HS and IUSB
Campaign Phone
574-849-6393
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Judicial Reform.
Our judicial system is broken, it has become a system that caters to lawyers and judges and no longer provides fair and unbiased justice for individuals. It is a system that has become so expensive individuals needing representation can not afford it. While courts are allowed to make it too difficult and complicated to represent yourself. Judges and lawyers are allowed to violate their own Rules of Professional Conduct because the Disciplinary Commission is unwilling to appropriately enforce and punish their own. Every day individuals have their rights trampled in our courts and it's time for reform. This would go hand in hand with our need for term limits. Judges spending decades on the bench is detrimental to the system.
Much of how funding is really allocated is cloaked in mystery from anyone outside the legislative body, so the first thing that needs to change is transparency. Second is for taxes that have been allocated to education stay for education. No more changing it later to general fund or for the self given raises of legislators. Funding needs to focus on curriculums that support core topics of education (math, English, science, ect) not the side courses that should be left for parents to decide when and what they want their child to learn. We need to focus on getting school budgets back to being fiscally responsible and less wasteful. There seems to be an imbalance of heavy administration employees which leaves little left for paying the most important employees, our teachers! We need to pay teachers better!
I do not believe we need more or new laws, we need to focus on doing a better job of enforcing and using the laws we have in order to keep guns out of the wrong hands while reducing violence.
We need to keep schools and teachers out of teaching concepts that are the choice and responsibility of parents and their spiritual leaders. Schools are meant for education and preparing students for their future with the tools to succeed in whatever career path they choose. A family or student's choice regarding sex, religion, and political affiliation are not the school's responsibility or business. We need to return our schools curriculum focus back where it belongs, and allow parents to get back to their responsibility of parenting.
Local and state governments are doing a fabulous job with smoke and mirrors to appear as though they are protecting our environment and agricultural lands. But the reality is they rezone and sell off pieces at a time so that Hoosiers don't realize how much we are loosing. This needs to stop!
Landlords or "slumlords" have gotten away with skirting the system while facing little to no consequences. This must stop immediately! Withholding rent is just one of the ways to start cleaning up rental properties and ensuring Hoosiers are safe. Landlords have a huge responsibility to ensure their properties are safe and maintain appropriate safety inspection standards. When they fail, and fail repeatedly, there needs to be appropriate and strict enforcement for these violations with consequences that can eventually lead to the forfeiture of property or properties that repeatedly fail safety inspections.
The legislature is not the appropriate answer to every issue. Programs, resources, and agencies to provide assistance and education for expecting mothers or mothers with young children are already available. We can not force anyone to utilize the resources if they choose not to. We can only make sure we have adequately shared these resources and they have been offered and that everyone who may be in need is aware of what is available.
I believe voter fraud is a bigger problem, we have made voter access the best ever! But we ave seen in previous elections across the country how some individuals and groups have abused the privilege and options made available to voters. Although it is not a popular opinion, those few bad apples are poisoning the pie. Voting absentee and voting by mail are 2 ways being abused, and need to be better regulated. By making absentee voting allowed only by qualified rules rather than for convenience. Many states need to do a better job of cleaning up voter rolls and verifying registration. We have instances of dead people voting, how does that even happen? Or areas that recieve more total votes than they actual have registered voters. Even if these are small or isolated incidents, it gives many people the reason to doubt election integrity.
In most instances I believe local government is best situated to govern their communities. Then there are some instances that state government would be best to govern certain issues. But very few should be ruled by the federal government. We need smaller, better government, rather than bigger less efficient government.
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