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Education
Charleston Southern University - Master of Business Administration; Thomas Edison State University - Bachelor of Science in Applied Science
Experience
20 years in US Navy on submarines as a Nuclear Trained Electrician's Mate Chief Petty Officer, Automation Engineer professionally, Elected to Charleston County School Constituent Board District 10 serving as Vice Chair last year of term, Served on Alliance For Full Acceptance (AFFA) Action Board.
My top priorities in the Statehouse would be fully funding public education, including universal Pre-K and ensuring every student has access to breakfast and lunch at school at no charge to the child, expanding affordable healthcare access, protecting reproductive freedom, addressing rising housing and property tax pressures, and ensuring infrastructure keeps pace with growth. I would also prioritize stronger environmental protections and responsible oversight of large-scale developments, including data centers, to protect communities and resources.
I would be particularly interested in serving on Education and Public Works, Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs, Labor Commerce and Industry, and Judiciary. My background as a 20-year Navy veteran, school board member, nonprofit leader, and operations professional has prepared me to contribute on education, infrastructure, government accountability, veterans’ issues, and economic policy.
South Carolina’s tax policy should be fair, sustainable, and focused on easing burdens on working families while maintaining the revenue needed to fund strong schools, infrastructure, public safety, and essential services. I support targeted property tax relief for residents, and I believe economic development incentives for large corporations should come with clear, enforceable performance standards. Tax abatements should be tied to measurable commitments such as job creation and retention, investments in workforce training and human capital, wages above regional median levels, strong benefits coverage, and meaningful in-state hiring. If companies do not meet those benchmarks, incentives should be reduced, clawed back, or ended.
That balance is achieved through responsible budgeting and accountability. Public subsidies should deliver public value. When companies receiving tax incentives generate excess cash for executive compensation, stock buybacks, or shareholder dividends, I support mechanisms that return a portion of that value to the communities helping make that success possible through support for schools, local improvements, and workforce investment, including sharing in prosperity with frontline workers. Growth should help pay for growth, and tax policy should reward long-term community benefit, not simply private gain
When legislation affects personal freedoms, I begin with a clear principle: government should not be in the business of taking away fundamental rights or interfering in deeply personal decisions unless there is an overwhelming public interest to justify it. My approach is grounded in protecting liberty, equal treatment under the law, privacy, and human dignity.
I will always listen to constituents with differing perspectives, but listening does not mean compromising on fundamental rights. I believe elected officials have a duty both to represent their communities and to stand firmly against policies that deny freedom, undermine bodily autonomy, or discriminate against vulnerable people. My decisions would be informed by constituent input, evidence, and constitutional principles, with the goal of expanding freedom and opportunity, not restricting them.
I do not support diverting public education dollars to private school voucher programs. Public funds should be used to strengthen the public schools that serve the overwhelming majority of South Carolina’s children, not redirected in ways that can weaken those systems. Private education is a personal choice, but that choice should not come at the expense of public schools already facing funding challenges.
I am also concerned that voucher programs can reduce transparency and accountability while directing taxpayer dollars to institutions that may not be held to the same standards on nondiscrimination protections, educator certification, financial oversight, or student outcomes as public schools. My priority would be investing those dollars in proven public school supports, including universal Pre-K, universal school meals, teacher support and retention, and student services.
If forced to address oversight of existing voucher funds, at a minimum any provider receiving public dollars should meet the same civil rights protections, financial transparency standards, educator qualifications, and student outcome reporting expected of public schools. But my position is those dollars are better invested in public education.
Keeping energy rates affordable while protecting our environment requires smart long-term planning. I do not support building new fossil fuel power plants, though I am open to carefully limited expansion at existing facilities when paired with strong safeguards, including carbon capture and emissions abatement technologies, to minimize environmental impact. Our broader focus should be accelerating cleaner energy sources, including solar, especially on rooftops and parking canopies, wind, nuclear power, and other low-carbon technologies, along with grid modernization and energy efficiency to help control long-term costs for residents.
I am also concerned that large new loads, including proposed data centers, can strain infrastructure, increase demand on the grid, consume significant natural resources, and shift costs onto residents without sufficient public return. Under current models, I do not support new data centers in my district, and I do not support tax incentives to attract them. Large developments should pay their own way. However, I would consider proposals where developers provide substantial, enforceable public benefit, such as building dedicated nuclear or renewable generation to support their energy demand, protecting residents from higher electric costs, and providing meaningful local benefits such as reduced electric bills or infrastructure investments. Economic development should serve communities, not ask communities to subsidize it.
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