This is not just an affordable, but a thriving Windsor County

Helping YOU feel financially secure:

Create well-paying job opportunities for Vermonters by growing our trades workforce with more apprenticeships, higher education for working Vermonters and investing in middle/high school Career and Technical Education.
Empower Vermonters to participate in improving state governance by creating more opportunities to speak directly with legislators and elected officials.

Simplify and reform education funding to make it fairer for Vermonters of all income levels.
Support town development to manage growth wisely and responsibly.

Building a healthcare system that prioritizes care over profit:

Aggressively focus on rural healthcare programs to make sure the health of rural Vermont is not forgotten.
Create a Universal Primary Care system that keeps people healthy, prevents acute illness, and reduces emergency room expenses.
Include physical therapy as part of any Universal Primary Care system.
Explore adapting the “Costa Rica system” to use mobile clinics that reach every patient at least annually and bring healthcare TO Vermonters.
Look at captive health insurance for state and education workers; reform benefits negotiation processes.
Build more mental health services for Vermont families that use early support to keep families together, safe, stable and prevent DCF intervention; saving millions in residential placement costs.
Make the “grow your own” permanent to fix the nursing and medical staff shortage initiative more robust and permanent.

Protecting our citizens from federal government overreach:

Defend civil liberties for Vermonters across all identities and hold the state government accountable to protections.
Strengthen state data systems to protect Vermonters’ information.
Invest in our state in ways that unlock more federal funding and matching.
Stop the governor from spending millions in state money for programs that federal dollars could cover.
Create pathways for more cooperation between state agencies to save money and make things run more smoothly; unlock communication between and among agency partners.

I will always fight for public education:

Support and reform educational quality and systems; encourage cooperation between districts to lower costs and increase capacity.
Push for economic analysis before forcing systemic changes based on inaccurate or unclear data.
Fully integrate Career and Technical Education and adult education as important parts of our education system and not treated separately.
Remove non-educational expenses from the Education Fund.
Support small schools; require that all taxpayer-funded schools are held to the same standards and rules.
Ban political appointments from education governance— education is a public good and should not be political.
Resolve the acute problems of hazing, harassment, and bullying in our statewide school culture by collecting data, reforming policy, providing training and guidance, and adding levels of accountability that are not currently in place.
Make the “grow your own” permanent to fix the teacher and education staff shortage initiative more robust and permanent.

I will NOT support

Prioritizing “Housing for All”, I will always push for:

Building housing that’s for the needs of working class people and not wealthy investors.
Support towns in ways that help them manage growth wisely and responsibly by banning private equity firms from buying up homes.
Reforming landlord-tenant laws such that landlords and tenants are recognized as equal partners in rental contracts.
Finding ways to improve and make use of the older housing we already have that has gone unused.