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Campaign Endorsements
Democratic Endorsement, Third Act New Jersey Endorsement, Food and Water Watch Endorsement
Education
Graduate of Tufts University
Involvement in Community
Chair for Solar, Wind, Sustainability Campaign for Third Act New Jersey
Qualifications/Experience
National Squash Coach, Teacher, Coach, Mentor, Founder of People Powered Machines, Realtor
Occupation
Realtor
County government should be open by default—not only when residents have the time, expertise, or persistence to file an OPRA request. I would support a modern public-information system that makes it easy for residents to see what their government is deciding, spending, and delivering.
Specifically, I would advocate for:
A searchable online county checkbook showing payments, contracts, grants, professional-service agreements, subsidies, and major capital expenditures in plain language.
Posting commissioner meeting agendas, full supporting documents, proposed ordinances, resolutions, and contracts at least one week before votes whenever legally possible.
Livestreaming and archiving all commissioner meetings, committee meetings, budget hearings, and major public workshops, with searchable video and written minutes.
Transparency is not an obstacle to good government; it is how government earns public trust.
The Cape May County Airport should be governed and developed as a public asset—not as a closed-door real-estate opportunity or an open-ended taxpayer obligation. It has real aviation, defense, emergency-response, historic, and economic value, but its future must be guided by public accountability, federal aviation rules, sound land-use planning, and a clear financial plan.
Cape May County owns the airport, while the Delaware River and Bay Authority operates it under a long-standing arrangement. The county has been considering whether to renegotiate that relationship or assume greater local control; any change must be evaluated publicly and independently, including all costs, federal obligations, lease revenues, staffing needs, capital liabilities, and potential risks to taxpayers.
The airport should be part of the county’s clean-energy strategy. I would examine rooftop solar, parking-canopy solar, battery storage, energy-efficiency upgrades, and electric-vehicle charging stations.
Cape May County’s economy depends on the teachers, health-care workers, hospitality employees, public-safety personnel, tradespeople, municipal workers, and small-business employees who make our communities function year-round. Yet too many people who work here cannot afford to live here.
County government cannot solve the housing shortage alone, but it can be a serious partner and use its planning, financing, land, infrastructure, and convening authority to expand supply without sacrificing the character or environmental health of our communities.
The airport discussion illustrates why the county needs a real countywide housing plan. The county has considered using airport property for housing because the need is so severe, but federal aviation policy has placed major limits on residential use of airport land. We should not rely on a single uncertain site or a single large project. We need multiple solutions distributed across the county, built around existing infrastructure, transit,
Cape May County government’s role should be focused on public safety, equal treatment under the law, and effective delivery of county services—not on taking on a broad federal immigration-enforcement role.
Federal immigration enforcement is primarily a federal responsibility. County government should cooperate with lawful court orders, warrants, and serious public-safety investigations, while respecting constitutional due process, civil-rights protections, and the limits of local authority. I do not support turning county government into an extension of ICE for routine civil immigration enforcement.
Greatly diminishing ICE’s presence in routine county affairs does not mean ignoring crime or public safety. It means using local resources responsibly, respecting civil liberties, and building the trust that helps law enforcement solve serious crimes. When people are afraid to speak with police, report abuse, or cooperate as witnesses, the entire community is less safe.
Cape May County is on the front line of coastal flooding, sea-level rise, stronger storms, erosion, and increasingly frequent strain on roads, drainage systems, utilities, and emergency routes. These are not distant theoretical concerns; they affect public safety, property values, insurance costs, tourism, local businesses, and the long-term cost of maintaining public infrastructure. Recent reporting has warned that sea-level rise could expose substantial portions of Cape May County’s roads and some evacuation routes to regular high-tide flooding over time.
The responsible answer is not to wait for disaster and then pay more for emergency repairs. It is to plan, prioritize, build wisely, pursue outside funding aggressively, and make every infrastructure dollar serve multiple purposes: public safety, cost reduction, energy resilience, environmental protection, and economic stability.
And clean energy must be part of the county’s infrastructure strategy.
