Campaign Phone
717-549-1522
Education
University of Maryland, Bachelors's, Government & Journalism; Purdue University, Social Studies Education;
Experience in Leadership and Management
Purdue University, Director of Nation Broadcast Media Relations; United States Army, Public Affairs Specialist/Platoon Leader; Wake Robin HOA board, Purdue University/Ivy Tech, Communications/Writing Instructor; Faith Church neighborhood outreach coordinator,AFJROTC, Flight Commander
The state is undermining children's ability to learn, specifically properly learn English.
Whole language learning decreased literacy.The state then went to "science of Reading" which includes pseudo phonics.We must return to classical phonics.
ESOL is an over-funded failure. Once a student enters the program they very rarely exit throughout their entire education. It isn't teaching English well.
Purdue teaches teachers to grade students differently depending upon their race/sex/gender. This is racist/misogynistic and must end.
America's peace,prosperity, and greatness is based having been the world's melting pot. The public education system was founded a century-ago to mold children into American citizens. Now it's a Balkanizing force.
Now that COVID is past, we need to return to the tried and true practice of voting in person, on election day, with a state-issued ID (with a birthday, address an expiration date). Under recently adopted electoral processes people who do not live in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, or even America are voting in elections conducted in Tippecanoe County. That is unacceptable.
Elected officials' job is to govern. Citizens have the right and duty to vote. There are no obstacles preventing any Hoosier from voting.
Voter turnout increases when voters feel like there is a candidate that represents them and not the interests of a small but influential and often monied slice of the population.
Fortunately, this year District 26 has such an alternative.
The Indiana Economic Development Corporation has commandeered almost all local natural resources in the state for the commercial benefit of a chosen few. The most egregious example is The LEAP project that will build a 9000-acre business park in Boone County, bringing up to 50,000 jobs to the Lebanon area. But Boone County doesn't have the water to support such development. So, IDEC plans to suck up to 100 million gallons per day (3 billion per month) from the West Lafayette underground aquifer and pipe it down to Boone County (at taxpayer expense). Massive amounts of polluted wastewater will not be treated, much less be returned the aquifer. It will instead be released to affect communities downstream. This is unacceptable. #StopTheSteal
District 26 for decades has had an economy and housing market that has consistently grown at a healthy rate. Sadly, in the last three years inflation rates, interest rates, and property taxes have all soared. This is because a Democrat White House runs annual deficits nearing $3 trillion year. They print money out of thin air, which devalues the dollar, which drives up inflation. To control the problem it created, the feds jack up interest rates, making housing all the more unaffordable. The Biden WH is also ushers in several million illegal immigrants each year. They are consuming vast amounts of public dollars that could be used to assist poor Americans. Solution? Elect fiscally responsible Republicans who protect working-class Hoosiers.
We have ample ways to communicate to our elected representatives what actions we as constituents' would like to see them do or not do. We have a "referendum" every two years as to whether our state representative should remain in office. November's general election is the referendum on the weak, unresponsive, and failed representation District 26 has had since it was resized. Fortunately we now have an alternative with a long track record of aggressively, courageously, and successfully representing the concerns of constituents in our district...something we need desperately need in the state house.
