Endorsements
3.14 Action
Campaign Phone Number
701-527-5640
My top priority is to make North Dakota the best state in the country to work and raise a family. To do that, I would fight for establishing a state paid family and medical leave program and publicly-funded pre-K options to help with childcare costs. Additionally, to improve trust and confidence in our state legislature, I would advocate for a fully-funded ethics commission so that it has the capacity to promptly investigate the current volume of complaints it receives.
We need temporary state subsidies to bring down skyrocketing health insurance premiums for ACA marketplace plans while also implementing cost regulation strategies to ensure long-term sustainability, such as price caps, hospital rate setting, and procedure cost growth limits. Regulation is needed in conjunction with subsidies to provide a sustainable solution and avoid just throwing money at the problem.
Our state has a serious need for additional housing supply that is affordable for low- and middle-income earners. To address this, I would advocate for streamlining permitting processes and expanding tax credits and exemptions for building affordable housing.
I am opposed to public funds being directed to non-public education.
The current election and voting process in North Dakota is very secure while still maintaining accessibility for our rural residents. I would be very wary of new policies that add barriers to voting, especially if they would disproportionately impact our rural neighbors.
I don’t believe there are currently any areas where there is an imbalance in states rights versus federal government power. That being said, it’s important to be aware of potential power imbalances with the federal government, especially in a state with a lower population relative to others like North Dakota.
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Campaign Phone Number
701-202-0299
Lowering Cost of Living (especially in Housing, Child Care & Health Care)
Supporting & Sustaining Small Businesses and Family Farms
Protecting & Strengthening Public Education (including Higher Education)
Preventing Prioritizing Out-of-State Corporate Interests over that of ND Taxpayers
Preserving and Reclaiming our Public Natural Spaces
Respecting Human Dignity
Restoring Transparency & Accountability in the State Legislature
Maintaining Balance of Political Perspectives in the State Legislature
Put Caps on prescription drug costs
Provide direct and indirect Subsidies for health insurance
Establish a State-run health insurance program for lower-income families (like Washington State's
Basic Health Plan--which has been successful for over 30 years)
Expand the Housing Incentive Fund (HIF) to build affordable work-force housing
Minimizing the bureaucratic permit process
I very strongly oppose allowing public funds to be directed to non-public education. Weakened public schools will NOT be able to compete with private schools which not only get Taxpayer money but corporate funds as well. Public education has been the bedrock of a functioning Democracy. Weakened public schools will shift power and prosperity from ordinary citizens to those who can afford to send their children to school.
I approve of the current policy that our citizens do not need to register to vote. Although it is somewhat problematic, I would rather see ALL citizens have adequate and easy access to voting even though this allows for non-citizens to vote than to take a chance that actual citizens will Not be able to vote. If and when we begin to see a sizeable number of non-Citizen voters at the polls, we can address that issue at that time.
I have always believed that an extremely powerful federal government is not in the best interests of a democracy. Current evidence of that includes Environmental Regulations and Election Administration. However, there are certain public conditions which affect the entire society which are best handled as a nation rather than a state. One example of that would be Universal Health Coverage.
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