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County
Montour
Occupation
Healthcare Social Work
Education
Associate Level Advertising Graphic Communications, NOCTI and Penn College; N.A. (2008), Dementia Care (160h), and BLS certifications, HACC; ServSafe Food Service Management, NRA
Qualifications
Professional certifications and 20y experience in healthcare, hospitality management, and communications; Life-long community servant through civic and religous orgs such as Scouts, Young Explorers, New Direction (owned), Mt Pleasant UMC youth outreach, Sunbury/Evan summer volunteer program, more
Healthcare|Education|Infrastructure
We live in the shadow of the only Level 1 Trauma hospital system in NCPA, while 15% (est 30,000 across all Geisinger systems) of local residents have restricted or no access to that care due to financial and bureaucratic barriers.
My number one goal, as a mother to a son w congenital heart disease and legislator, is to remove barriers to accessible healthcare in the Susquehanna Valley so that we can be healthy enough to persue the American Dream through higher education and contributing to the physical and moral infrastructure of our district, state of PA, and beyond.
Cut out the HC middlemen, invest in education, build out PAs agricultural infrastructure while holding space for business growth.
"Combatting disinformation," is the most reasonable answer to this question. The data is crystal clear - our elections are secure. Less than 1% of cast votes over TWENTY years in the USA have been fraudulant. The best thing we can do is educate the voting populace on exactly how our elections are run.
Am I against ID to vote? Not at all. We already use ID to register and the first time we vote at a precinct. If local election officials are not doing that, it needs dealt with at a local level, not by nationalizing and taking over elections at the federal level. If IDs are made available at no cost to all, we can consider that option. However, we all know the fed/state will not give up revenue to fix a problem they KNOW doesn't actually exist
I would be remiss to pretend to have an answer to the dysfunction of the budget process in PA, before I have the chance to physically experience it.
However, if we continue to elect representatives who openly legislate based on the tenacity of their special interest lobbyists over the needs of the people they are elected to serve, we will continue to have budget issues.
Republicans in the caucus, per their own members statements to the press, "can't even come together and agree on path forward," because they are beholden to conflicting special interests.
We have the funding and we know what the people are asking for in the way of services and accessibility. We need better educated representatives who will work hard to get it done for them.
Ai and those who benefit from the ways they intend to use it absolutely need regulated. Municipalities currently hold zoning, subdivision, and land development powers granted by the general assembly in PA. I want to keep it that way. However, new problems require new solutions.
The next HR term will be the legislature responsible for writing those new solutions to protect consumers, our land, and resources, while paving the way for the next generation of progress. Using regulation models focused on disclosure requirements, restrictions on deceptive systems, and documentation requirements pertaining to outcomes rather than infrastructure can avoid land-use issues.
However, I support Sen. Katie Muth's moratorium to ensure impact research.
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