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My top three priorities are affordability, healthcare and mental health, and education/workforce development. Indiana families are getting crushed by the rising cost of housing, rent, utilities, and healthcare, while too many people feel like government works better for corporations and the rich than for everyone else. We need to lower everyday costs, expand access to medical and mental health care, strengthen public schools and job training, and invest in housing and infrastructure that make communities more stable, connected, and affordable.
We must stop with the constant "reimagining" of school in Indiana. Every legislative session, we hear about how the several new programs, new standards, or new ideologies will dramatically increase student achievement...and it never does.
I believe it is simple: pay teachers much more so Indiana can have enough high-quality teachers for our kids, stop needlessly injecting divisive social issues into our schools, and make sure every single child has a decent, clean building to learn in and a full stomach while they're doing it.
Automatic voter registration, same-day voter registration, remove the hurdles to voting by mail for seniors and people who will be away from home, an independent non-partisan redistricting commission, and paper records for all ballots cast.
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I believe LGBTQ+ Hoosiers, including transgender Hoosiers, deserve the same rights, freedoms, and legal protections as everyone else. Indiana should adopt comprehensive statewide nondiscrimination protections that explicitly cover sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, public accommodations, credit, education, and healthcare. We should also strengthen protections for students by ensuring safe schools, preventing bullying and harassment, and rejecting policies that single out young people.
As a sheriff’s deputy, I know firsthand that agencies can only hire well-qualified, intelligent officers if they offer competitive pay and benefits. It also costs real money to provide the robust training and in-service education officers need to know the law, protect their neighbors, and respect people’s rights, culture, and identity. Thorough background investigations are expensive too, but they are critical to weed out people who should not be cops. In short, we need to invest in the kind of law enforcement agencies and officers we deserve. If we want professionalism, we have to be willing to fund departments in a way that allows them to recruit better, train better, and hold officers to a higher standard.
I accept support from a wide range of people and organizations because campaigns in a competitive district require the resources to compete, especially when opponents are spending enormous sums to defeat me. But a contribution does not buy my vote, my voice, or my values. I have accepted contributions from people and groups whose policy positions I oppose, but I have never changed my position for them. I joke that its like if Goliath bought David the slingshot.
That said, there are absolutely sources of money I would refuse (like anti-Labor Union money). I would also not accept contributions from people or groups I find morally objectionable, and I would not take money I believed came from ill-gotten gains or unethical conduct.
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