I will fight for people, not corporate interests by combatting corruption, addressing taxes, and supporting education, healthcare, unions, and our right to vote. We will modify the Homestead Act in property taxes and eliminate reliance on property
taxes for school funding. I support our constitutional right to reproductive care and abortion and also will seek to expand health care access for everyone. I will push to increase investment in public and higher education as a public good for
everyone. I will defend workers and their right to organize; building the middle class is the way to prosperity. I support Issue 1 to combat gerrymandering and all voter suppression tactics. I support clean energy and protecting our environment.
I support Issue 1 to eliminate gerrymandering. Partisan gerrymanders limit voters’ say in who is elected to office. This contradicts the intent of the Constitution and is clearly a form of voter suppression because voices of all voters do not have equal weight in choosing their representatives. I support expanding early voting seven days per week. Election day is a Tuesday and not everyone can vote on a weekday. To equalize voting opportunity requires easy access to early and absentee voting. Finally, most voter identification laws are voter suppression laws in disguise intended to disadvantage renters, college students, and older residents, among others. We must not promote voting policies that silence some groups.
“Trickle down” economics accelerates the profit of corporations, but at the expense of working families. I support investing in working people by supporting existing labor unions; I am endorsed by the local chapters of many major unions in Ohio. Investing in working people means promoting rights of workers to form unions in their workplaces—not legal barriers to support union-busting. The shrill warnings that immigrants steal jobs come from the same people who have undercut the unions that provide their workers with job security. This raises the question of who are these fearmongers trying to protect—and from whom? As representative of this district, I will pledge to support working people, not corporate greed.
Ohio K-12 school districts are under-funded and unequal funding; Ohio’s reliance on local property taxes for school funding has been ruled unconstitutional four times. Correcting this will also facilitate ending private school voucher programs that take millions from public education every year. Funding our public schools properly will allow them to provide the services needed. In both K-12 and higher education, censorship of education (Senate Bill 83) would undercut academic freedom, disenfranchise people of color, disempower educators, and coerce the inclusion of extremist ideologies rather than facts in course content. I would join the fight to combat SB 83 and keep education under the control of educators, not ideologues.
Relieving the burden of property taxes requires fixing the homestead exemption for 65+ seniors by eliminating the income requirement (currently $38,600) and increasing the benefit up to $25,000 of the market value of the home. State checks also will help fight corruption. A local sheriff has blatantly used his office unethically, even putting Portage County in the national news with his voter intimidation threats. We need protest at the state level to curb such actions. Low housing stock and slow construction have created a housing crisis; some households now spend 50%+ of their income on housing. More legislation is needed to rein in misplaced incentives and out-of-state investors that are pricing residents out of the market.
In 2023, Ohio voters overwhelmingly passed Issue 1, a constitutional amendment to protect reproductive freedom. Since then, many have sought to curtail the reach of that amendment. Women in other states without such protections are dying because health care providers are afraid of being prosecuted if they provide life-saving care. I will our constitutional amendment. Ohio should strengthen its commitment to the ACA, CHIPS, and other initiatives that improve access to healthcare for all. We also need new approaches to elder care financing; current policy bankrupts individuals in care, strips families of hard-earned assets, and fails to provide safeguards to ensure quality.
We must enact legislation to reduce the use of fossil fuels. Ohio is behind in clean energy because the state legislature majority is so closely aligned with fossil fuels. Supporting local farmers in managing sustainable practices will ensure Ohioans have access to the freshest and healthiest food possible. Fracking has not been the economic boom that the energy industry led us to believe. It has left large tracks of land polluted, and the wastewater is a long-term health hazard. I would move our focus to sustainable approaches such as geothermal energy (e.g., heat pumps) and wind and solar electricity.
State and federal laws outlaw discrimination on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and more. We must ensure these laws are enforced and no one is victimized by intolerance. Recent attacks from political candidates have put some groups at greater risk. Immigrants and LGBTQ groups are the most targeted and have been made vulnerable to discrimination and even violence. If elected, I will seek to make hate speech from political candidates unacceptable and subject to penalties; anything that incentivizes political violence has no role in our democratic election process.
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My top priorities are growing the economy and creating jobs, reducing inflation, enhancing workforce training programs, reforming and restructuring education, tackling illegal immigration, protecting the 2nd Amendment, securing election integrity and fostering a culture that embraces life.
I support cutting taxes substantially, reducing burdensome regulations and reducing state government spending.
I support policies that would allow state education funds to follow the student to a school chosen for them by their parents.
I believe Ohio has a role to play in demanding the federal government secure our borders, defend our right to bear arms, and protect free and fair elections.
I am a strong supporter of policies that strengthen election integrity. I support voter identification. I oppose ballot harvesting. I support maintaining the integrity of our voter registration lists. Voters who have died and voters who have moved out of a county should be removed from the voter rolls in an efficient manner. Policies that make it easier for the Board of Elections to report secure election results within hours of the final ballots being cast are tremendously important to building confidence in the outcome of our elections.
It’s simple: 1. Cut taxes; 2. Reduce spending; 3. Intelligently reduce excessive regulations; 4. Aggressively train and re-train workers. We must make Ohio more business friendly and affordable. We must compete with other states in our region, all across America and throughout the world.
Two quick concepts: 1. Comprehensive reform to meet student needs; and 2.) Empowering parents to make the best decisions for their children’s educational success. I support the “backpack bill” that would allow state education funding to follow the student to the school chosen for them by their parents. We need big changes in the strategies we employ in our education system, including a closer focus at the specific needs of our youth through expansion of intervention programs. We need to facilitate opportunities for junior and senior high students to have exposure to skilled trades and collaborative workshops. We need to connect graduates directly with local employers in a variety of fields through networking and recruitment co-ops.
As a conservative, I will advocate for small government and keep power as close to The People as possible. I believe government programs administered at the local level do the best job of solving problems in an effective and efficient manner for their communities. However, I believe a careful balance needs to be established to ensure that municipalities have the authority, funding, and resources needed while also maintaining a standard of excellence across the board in management of public services.
As a registered nurse, an entrepreneur and small businesswoman, I have strong opinions on healthcare policy. I believe a movement towards more private sector innovations, rather than government mandated decision-making, would help lower costs for most patients. I strongly support allowing patients to make choices about the healthcare strategies and medicines they may or may not need. I also believe in prioritizing holistic wellness plans as a preemptive strategy to avoid expensive emergency health crisis. I also support medical bill transparency and Personal Health Information data privacy.
I am a conservationist and an environmentalist. I think about natural resource management issues every day in my family owned business. Government does have a role to play in natural resource management issues and environmental protection. It is our obligation to give to our children and our grandchildren an ecosystem that is cleaner and healthier than the world we inherited. The best policies in this area strike an appropriate balance between what is best for the environment and what is best for smart economic growth and a high-quality standard of living. I am a strong advocate of individual responsibility and know that we must all do our part to preserve and protect our limited natural resources.
American exceptionalism is rooted in the concept of unlimited opportunities being afforded to every citizen; the concept that "all men are created equal" and they are "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights." It is the instinctual purpose of human life to constantly learn and evolve and no person should ever be discriminated against in their pursuit of that purpose - so long as there is no threat to the well-being and life of others. "Do no harm" should be the standard of compassion in all cases.
