Running to represent the majority of the voters in the district.

Running to stop the disconnect between the will of the voters in the district and the actions of the Ohio General Assembly.

Issues

Protecting Health Care

Protect access to quality, affordable healthcare. Fight to protect and strengthen our healthcare system, supporting those who care for our most vulnerable citizens and ensuring everyone can get the care they need.

Medicaid: A Lifeline for Millions

• Support Medicaid, which provides vital health coverage for over three million Ohioans, including children, seniors, and people with disabilities.

Medicare: A Promise to Seniors

• Defend Medicare and work to ensure its solvency through cost negotiations and quality improvement. Our seniors earned their Medicare.

The Affordable Care Act: Success Worth Building On

• Strengthen the ACA, building on its successes such as coverage for chronic diseases, mental health, and addiction treatment. Despite relentless attacks, the ACA has expanded coverage, slowed cost growth, and protected people with pre-existing conditions.

Private Insurance: Protections You Can Count On

• Support private insurance and ACA’s protections, like allowing children to stay on parental plans until 26 and forbidding coverage denials for pre-existing conditions.

Addressing Inflation

Inflation is mostly impacted by national and international policies. However, at the state and local level actions can be taken to remediate the impacts of inflation. Accordingly, partner with state and local organizations to determine actions to address remediation.

Committed to creating a vibrant, opportunity-rich Ohio where everyone can thrive. Work to strengthen our economy, improve access to quality education, and ensure all citizens have access to the resources they need to succeed. Focus on attracting and retaining businesses of all sizes, creating good jobs and fueling economic growth. Leverage existing economic committees and explore new strategies to boost our local economy. Partnership to address underemployment.

Fair Property Taxes

The Ohio General Assembly continues to fail to pass fair and equitable property tax legislation. The Homestead exemption needs to be amended to prevent citizens on fixed incomes from having to reduce essential medical and other vital necessities, in order to not lose their homes due to not paying exorbitant and unfair property taxes. The deliberate shift over the last several years has been to transfer the property tax burden from the wealthy to the middle and lower classes.

Equitable Public and Private School Funding

Fight for fair public-school funding and reasonable private school funding. The Ohio General Assembly continues to fail to pass fair and equitable school funding legislation. The deliberate shift over the last several years has been to transfer public school funding to private schools, which primary benefits the wealthy.

Public Safety

• Fight to fund law enforcement agencies and training.
• Fight to decease community violence through public health interventions, trauma-informed services, and preventive strategies.
• Fight to expand access to mental health, addiction treatment, and primary healthcare services.
• Fight unscrupulous out-of-state corporate landlords, which continue to intentionally evict tenants to maximize profits, creating a new generation of homeless families. These evictions become permanent records of all the family members making it extremely difficult to ever qualify for a loan to purchase a home.

Zoning Based on Community Standards

Take on the real estate developers and enabling politicians who continue to put profits above the will of the communities. Land parcels continue to be rezoned to maximize profits, despite overwhelming opposing testimonies at public hearings.

Protection of Natural Resources

Protect our waterways from pollution

• The pristine Whitewater River continues to be threatened by commercial enterprise. Development must be carried out in harmony with nature.

Protect our public lands from commercial fracking and commercial logging

• Ohio’s public lands are for today’s generations and all future generations to enjoy. While commercial development can be a good thing, it must be prohibited on public lands.

Combat the Spotted Lanternfly

• Lead the fight to eradicate the invasive Spotted Lanternfly, and the invasive Tree of Heaven. The Spotted Lanternfly uses the Tree of Heaven as its home base. Working from that base it attacks and indiscriminately kills all other trees. In perspective, the ash bore only killed ash trees.