Vermont’s unaffordability crisis continues to rampage, especially in poverty-stricken areas like our district. We need to start standing up for working people, farms, and small businesses. To do that, I will support:

• Tax breaks for working families, seniors, and veterans;

• Subsidies and economic relief for struggling farms;

• Streamlining/lessening regulations for small businesses;

• Hold corporations accountable

• Universal Primary Care;

• Strengthening workers rights (prop 3);

• Building local, community wealth.

For our next generation of Vermonters, homeownership is an unattainable dream, and homelessness is on the rise. For years now, Vermonters have been struggling with exorbitant home prices and rental rates. Especially in rural communities, where we are being priced out of the small-town communities. To tackle these issues, we need to:

• Reform laws (Act 250, 181) that restrict rural housing projects;

• Work to lower property taxes on primary homes;

• Make it easier to build in currently developed areas;

• Tackle short-term rentals and vacancies;

• Levy higher taxation for second homes;

• Ban private equity from buying our residential buildings;

Climate change in Vermont is only going to worsen over the coming decades, making extreme weather and natural disasters more common and destructive as the planet continues to be polluted. But while we certainly need to enact climate law that protects Vermonters' property, health, and livelihoods, we still need to make sure that climate legislation doesn't make affordability worse in an already unaffordable state. To combat climate change, I believe we should:

• Continue and/or expand programs that provide subsidized or free clean heating systems;

• Invest in renewable energy, expanding our grid;

• Breakdown unnecessary regulations and permitting for renewable development;

• Work toward easing everyday Vermonter’s reliance on fossil fuels, without punishing them.

Vermont’s education funding formula is extremely flawed. Our per-pupil spending is the largest in the nation, and we’ve lagged behind in equitable funding distribution. We are facing legislation that will shut down our rural schools, and allocate small-town resources into bulky, oversized school districts, stripping our state of small-town community. To fix education spending, I will fight for:

• Reducing property taxes through healthcare system reforms;

• Ensuring our students and teachers get the resources they need;

• Lessening administrative cost burdens;

There is simply no excuse, in this age of technology, for a legislator to not have some regular communication with their constituents. As a member of the legislature, I would:

• Publish bi-weekly legislative newsletters, focusing on big moves in the statehouse, my own bills, and what legislation i do/don’t support.

• Hold Legislative talks, both in-person and over zoom, where constituents can voice their concerns during the legislative session.

• Regularly update social media, similar to the newsletters, on everything from legislation to events and calls to action.

From mental health to public safety, drug use to human rights, there are many issues centered around our community as a whole that need to be addressed. When I’m in Montpelier, I plan to:

• Support drug prevention resources in our district

• Advocate for policies that will strengthen mental health services

• Protect the rights of all Vermonters, from the 2nd Amendment to our rights of assembly, free speech, and to choose

• Work across the aisle, to make our state better for working people

To build a Vermont that works for all of us, I will do away with political polarity and bring on a new, people-first agenda.