What Needs to Change

1. Affordable Housing and Food Access

   Families in District 183 are struggling with rising rents and grocery costs. We need to support our local Main Streets, focus on grant-writing to reduce the constant tax hikes we face, and make the groceries we are growing in our backyards affordable and accessible to our community. We have to fight the big real estate developers who are building houses that are bigger and more expensive than the next. Landlords and HOAs are forcing lower-paying tenants and owners out of their homes through improper means. We need to ensure that our homes -- whether houses, apartments, farms or mobile homes -- return to a reasonable cost and are available to the people of our community!

2. Preserving Our Land

   Pennsylvania has some of the most valuable farms and beautiful landscapes in America. We need to ensure our farms, our green spaces, and charming towns and boros are not taken over by corporate greed, garbage dump sites and AI data centers.

3. Keep AI Data Centers out of our Neighborhoods

   Data centers do not belong in our residential neighborhoods. Routinely, they have been found to emit a variety of damage to our community, to our pocketbooks, and to our health. Let's keep the AI data centers out of our neighborhoods and residential areas!

4. Our Healthcare Costs and Access are Out of Control

   Every year, our healthcare costs grow out of control; it is a runaway train of expense and fraud. We need to get ahold of our healthcare and make it accessible to us when we need it. We also need to cut down the massive fraud endemic to the healthcare insurance system. It's time to improve our healthcare: lower the costs, improve the efficiency, and cull out insurance fraud!

5. Our Children are our Future; they Deserve Education

   Pennsylvania's school funding system has been ruled unconstitutional — and reform is overdue. I will prioritize equitable funding for every public school in the district, support teachers and staff, and ensure that every child has access to a quality education regardless of zip code.

6. Support our First Responders

   Our first responders are the heros who protect us when we need them. All too often, however, they are faced with unduly dangerous situations and overwhelming financial obligations. When the police are told not to pursue speeding motorcyclists because of the risk of harm or to not pursue matters where underage kids are driving electronic bikes, there is a problem. When the volunteer firefighters are being told they need to pay for new firefighting trucks, at a ticket of over a million dollars, there is a problem. When 9-1-1 First Responder technology is too expensive for our community, and taxes are being raised to pay for it, there is a problem. We must support our first responders in doing their jobs; they are doing it for us!

7. Stopping the Government's Overreach into our Personal Freedoms

   We deserve to live our lives as we see fit. The government does not belong in our homes, our bedrooms, our bodies and our doctors' offices. We should be free to live our personal lives how we see fit. Fighting government overreach also means protecting our rights to own firearms and ensuring that responsible ownership is based on facts, not scare tactics. Let's get the government out of the business of telling us how to live our lives!

How We Make Change Happen

The only way we will get there is: (1) change what isn't working; (2) fiscal moderation; (3) stop the useful fighting; and (4) Ignore the labels.

1. Fix What's Broken

   We have to change what isn't working - if ten years in office hasn't produced substantial change, it's time to consider other options.

2. Fiscal Moderation

   We need to be fiscally moderate; we cannot afford out-of-control government spending;

3. Stop the Fighting

   We need to stop the useless fighting between the parties - extremists on both sides would rather argue than agree to get anything done.

4. Look at the Politicians, not the Party Labels

   We need to move past political party labels. Party registration at age 18 has nothing to do with the quality of a politician in their 40s and 50s. Political advertisers and politicians use labels as a cheap scare tactic to steer us away from a candidate. Look at the candidate themself — their priorities, values, and actions. Don't let name-calling and misleading advertising take away your right to assess who is best for you.