I'm the proud dad of two girls, a Kansas farm kid, a K-State engineer, and a small business owner. I've spent twenty years building software, including parts of Google Maps, and I've started two companies. But the biggest reason I'm running is that my family is a public school family. I went to public school, thrived in special ed programs, and that launched me into K-State engineering and every success since. Now my oldest is starting kindergarten in the Shawnee Mission schools, and I want every student in our district to have that same head start. I'll vote to fully fund special education and work to get the 2027 school finance rewrite right. I'm not a career politician, but as an engineer, I don't mind stepping up to fix what's broken.

First, education. Kansas law promises special education funding and the legislature hasn't kept that promise since 2011, pushing costs onto local schools. I'll vote to fully fund special education and work to get the 2027 school finance rewrite right.

Second, our economic future. Technology is changing how we learn and work, and Kansas has to build on that opportunity with modern manufacturing jobs, thriving startups and small businesses, and education systems that prepare people for the modern workforce.

Third, privacy. The government has no business interfering in your doctor's office, your home, or your data. That means defending reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights. Kansas was born the free state, and I'll fight to keep it that way.

Gut and go is an affront to democracy and shows contempt for Kansas voters, and we have to completely get rid of it. The legislature used it to pass the bathroom bill (SB 244), the automatic income tax ratchet (SB 269), and the private school voucher opt-in (SB 361), each without a public hearing on the actual contents. I'll advocate and work to limit "gut and go" to same-subject substitutes. No bill should ever become law without a public hearing on the actual contents of the bill. Voters deserve to see what a bill does and who is behind it before it passes.

Yes. I want to expand voting access, not shrink it. I'll fight to restore the mail-ballot grace period, protect advance voting, and stop voter-roll purges from canceling eligible citizens over bad database matches. Constitutional amendments also belong on November ballots.

The current legislature is bent on the opposite, and my opponent has backed voter suppression at every step: SB 4, which throws out lawful mailed ballots postmarked by Election Day; HB 2569, a trigger to abolish no-excuse mail voting statewide that only the governor's veto stopped; and HB 2503, banning local elections held by mail, a bill she didn't just vote for but co-sponsored.

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