Training and Experience
Held licenses in Life & Health Insurance ; Real Estate ; Series 7 & 8 Securities as well as extensive training in Retirement Plan Administration
Volunteer/Community Service
Scout Master & Leader Training Instructor for Boy Scouts of America ; volunteer in American Red Cross Distaster Recovery
Adjustments need to be made to allow disenfranchised individuals, such as elderly, disabled, hospitalized people to vote both during early voting as well as absentee voting. This is important especially in rural counties. There must be more ballet drop off boxes than just one at the BOE. These individuals (and probably more affected people) have many issues to get their absentee ballots delivered across long distances, such as, transportation availability.
The election process education process needs improving, especially with civics education not a high priority in Ohio schools. Everyone needs to understand how to register, how to keep their registration current, how and where to vote, as well as understand early all the dates, deadlines, and times all forms of voting are available.
Ohio needs to make all forms of taxation equitable. Giving tax breaks as an incentive to corporations, developers, and others in upper income levels needs to stop. Various ideas need to be discussed to focus on having the very wealthy pay a fair share of the tax income needs. Ideas such as a wealth tax or flat tax on all forms of income at the high levels should be studied by non-partisan economic experts.
Addressing affordability needs to be paired with accountability. If a solution to improve quality or accessibility involves privatization of a service then with that move to a “for profit” organization must be paired with being held accountable to promises made as well as review on how public funds are being spent, as an example. This will create competition and most likely bring down costs. By stressing accountability and versions of that, should help a broad range of consumers with many of the basic costs of day to day living. Including, healthcare & prescription drugs, housing, childcare, groceries, and nursing and residential care.
The foundation of a sound education system should be strong reading and math skills. The movement recently to improve reading by going back to teaching phonics has been proven successful by several States over the last 10 to 12 years. However, their success was based on mandatory re-training of grade schoolteachers and to put into place mandatory achievement tests for 3rd graders before allowing them to move onto 4th grade. This track should improve educational attainment to help students achieve a strong basic education to obtain the skills needed by employers as well as give them the opportunity go on to various secondary education tracks such as trade school, apprenticeships, or degree/certificate programs.
One of the bases of Democracy and in Article 1 of the constitution is having representatives of the population work on legislation by debating issues and compromising on ideas to have the final outcome serve as many as possible across all walks of life. This has been missing, to a greater extent, in the Ohio State Assembly. Limiting or reducing “big money” in politics could help legislators become more intune with the needs of their constituents vs. wants of their donors and lobbyists.
