VOTE411 Voter Guide

My primary goals in this office are to represent the people of Mississippi’s Fourth Congressional District with integrity, to improve the relationship between the government and the people it serves, and to focus on practical solutions that improve everyday life. My priorities include strengthening public trust in government, protecting Social Security and earned benefits, ensuring people have a real opportunity to save for their own retirement, supporting working families, and investing in infrastructure, healthcare, and education that make long-term prosperity possible. I believe this office should be used to solve real problems, uphold democratic institutions, and make government work reliably and fairly for the people it serves.

My background in public service, including my time in the United States Navy, along with my experience balancing work, family, and community responsibilities, has best prepared me for this role. These experiences have taught me accountability, collaboration, and the importance of making decisions that work in the real world, not just on paper.

For Mississippi, I support a targeted Medicaid expansion approach I have proposed that recognizes the state’s unique position. Under this legislation, if Mississippi were to accept Medicaid expansion, the federal government would cover 100 percent of the cost for the first three years and 95 percent for the following three years, reflecting the benefits other states received beginning in 2015. This approach would expand access to basic healthcare for low-income working adults and people re-entering society, reduce uncompensated emergency care, and help ensure hospitals and medical facilities in rural Mississippi can remain open. Keeping these facilities viable protects local jobs, supports emergency and preventive care close to home, and makes rural communities more sustainable places to live and work. Alongside this, I support strengthening preventive care, workforce retention, and access across underserved areas of the state.

I support comprehensive immigration reform that restores order, strengthens border management, and modernizes the legal immigration system in a lawful and humane way. Reform should address enforcement, legal pathways, and asylum processing together, with the staffing and administrative capacity needed to function over the long term. A comprehensive approach should also ensure a stable and lawful workforce so essential jobs can be filled without undercutting wages or squeezing citizens and lawful residents out of the job market. Any reform should be designed to be durable, with clear rules and regular review, so Congress is not forced to rely on temporary fixes years down the road. A functional immigration system should be orderly, fair, and reliable for both workers and communities.

My approach to foreign policy is grounded in the United States working through its formal alliances and partnerships to promote stability, security, and shared democratic values. I believe strong alliances, including long-standing partnerships such as NATO, are essential to deterring aggression and responding effectively to global challenges. In current global hotspots, the United States should prioritize diplomacy, collective action with allies, and reforms that promote political, cultural, and economic freedom. Supporting democratic institutions, human rights, and open economies abroad strengthens global stability and ultimately makes the United States safer, while avoiding unnecessary or open-ended military commitments.

A vote for D Ryan Grover is a vote for democratic representation. I believe my vote in congress should represent the will of the people of south Mississippi according to me going out and finding the best consensus. While I have personal opinions my vote will always represent the people. This is the representation we are missing in Washington.

The current administration is exposing weak points in our constitutional republic and the people need to go set things right again. My goals are three fold: secure societal sustainability, conserve the constitution and develop a modern, smart economy for south Mississippi.

If the government can't even prioritize life why should we expect it to consider the other inalienable rights of liberty and pursuit of happiness important? We can resolve this by codifying the morals of the Declaration of Independence into the Constitution, something that has been missing for 250 years. This is a vital reason as to why I am running.

My life experience is extensive for a 36 year old. In 2018 I started my own company doing business consulting for large and small businesses as well as other organizations. As a consultant I go in to a business to identify where there are weaknesses and how to turn them into strengths. Mississippi businesses are struggling, but we can give them a space to thrive.

There are few candidates with my level of technological know-how, as well as ability to adapt in an ever-changing world. To me technology should make things more efficient and cheaper but the government seems the slowest to adapt or cling to the wrong pearls. Our country needs people who understand the tech landscape and can resolve the lack of human responsibility. Some congressional hearings are embarrassing when our representatives don't know what they're talking about with these tech CEO's. We need someone who can speak the language of Silicon Valley so we don't keep getting swept under rug.

Health insurance isn't rocket science, the problem Republicans have is that Obama took their idea. The Affordable Care Act is the most capitalistic, yet expansive way to provide health insurance for everyone. If you're not on it and don't have insurance you should get on it. The monthly cost is much less than risking your health. It should be expanded as much as possible if it is to continue to work as our primary affordable healthcare insurance option.

Medicare and Medicaid run at around a 3.5% operating cost which is quite impressive, the majority of the funds go to healthcare. The issue is that every time the government goes to subsidize private insurance the cost to run that business suddenly skyrockets and extra costs are passed to the buyers despite the extra taxpayer money. This is absurd.

We need insurance companies that contract with the government to be accountable for the funds we give them. Costs can go down if there is willingness to reign in on these tactics.

We need smart immigration reform. I do believe that as a whole ICE as a department has gone too far in its enforcement tactics and is now too far gone. Our immigration problem doesn't need military-grade weaponization or war-zone style controls, it needs lawyers and paperwork.

Thank you Donald Trump for the actual bad people you have had deported, the issue is that there are 100 times more people that are not violent criminals who's lives and communities are being disrupted by violent masked federal agents in our streets. The number of convicted criminals versus number of people just without papers with not criminal history is shameful. Veterans, grandparents, roofers, Korean businessmen thousands apprehended without cause for what is legally the equivalent of a speeding ticket.

Sure it is easy to say "they're here illegally, they're criminals" but never in our nation's history has it been illegal to be a human. I don't believe in amnesty, but we can make a fair system that works.

Having lived for several years in Asia and traveling to other foreign countries, I love and appreciate the way other cultures live and develop a community. The United States is different though, we have a mix of everyone and everything. As Ronald Reagan put it anyone can come to America and become an American.

We need paths for people to come here not only for immigration but for economic partnerships as well. I speak Korean and have studied Chinese, Japanese and Spanish, not just the languages but the cultures as well. It would be an honor to work with foreign companies to bring them to south Mississippi.

Our economic interests expand beyond borders, I will do my best to represent our southern hospitality internationally. I think it will be essential to Mississippi's prosperity to court foreign investment. I see us developing modern industrial work as well as expanding our hospitality sectors. We are a prime location to live, now let's provide opportunities for people to thrive.

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