Description of office: The General Assembly is the legislative branch of government in Pennsylvania. It is composed of two houses: the Senate is the upper house, and the House of Representatives is the lower house. A majority vote in both houses is necessary to pass a law. The PA House of Representatives consists of 203 members representing one district each, with an equal number of constituents. Representatives must be at least 21 years old, have been a citizen and a resident of the state four years and a resident of their respective districts one year before their election, and shall reside in their respective districts during their terms of service. The House develops budget packages, makes taxation decisions, allocates spending, and passes laws (including redistricting in collaboration with the Senate). The House also has the exclusive authority to impeach public officials. Representatives also serve on various policy committees that may propose legislation. Term: 2 years Salary: $106,422 Vote for ONE.
County
Schuylkill
Occupation
Healthcare Consultant
Education
MS I/O Psychology
Qualifications
Experienced leader and problem solver with both life work experience and educational experience.
Taking back our towns from corporations - by enacting legislation to hold large corporations accountable for their impact on our environment & legislation closing loop holes in corporate taxes.
Improving the quality & affordability of living in our areas - legislation to hold and limit out of state LLC's buying our housing and avoiding taxes and property responsibility all while driving up our local cost and availability for affordable housing.
Nurture our neighborhoods and residents - by using funds collected from corporate tax reform.
Advocate and affirm equal rights for ALL people, including women's right to make their own healthcare choices, and all other people regardless of their own unique attributes.
Same day voter registration, automatic voter registration, restore rights to felons who have completed their sentence, on-line voting, early voting, vote by mail, flexible election day options, accessible voting locations.
security would be managed by affording more funding to our election administrations, so that they could manage and continually update voter records. Additional securities would be dependent on the specific type of voting. For example for on-line voting, there would be a series of security methods such as encryption to ensure the person who is voting is really the person stated. Mail in voting already has security measures in place, those measures can be further reviewed as needed.
I would support legislation that makes rational sense, has more funding from the state and that has equitable distribution of funds across all public schools.
First solidify into law that abortion is a Woman's personal healthcare decision and no one else's decision or any entities decision to make or force onto her.
Current restrictions that need to be removed are - mandatory waiting period after consultation, health exchange (or Medicaid, or public employee) health plan restrictions for payment, and mandatory parental consent.
We also need to stop using public funds for "fake" crisis pregnancy centers that pray on vulnerable women.
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