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EDUCATION AS INFRASTRUCTURE
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ECONOMIC STABILITY IS NATIONAL SECURITY
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HOUSING & HEALTHCARE
AS FOUNDATIONAL
SYSTEMS
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DISTRICT RENEWAL & AMERICAN PRODUCTION
A PEOPLE FIRST AGENDA FOR OH-11
Fighting For Working Families
My approach to policy starts with outcomes, not ideology.
I am focused on building systems that work for the people. Schools that prepare people for real life, jobs that lead to stability, housing and healthcare that provide a foundation, and local production that strengthens national capacity.
Education as Infrastructure
Education is the foundation of our workforce, economy, and national capacity.
Literacy, numeracy, and real-world reasoning aren’t optional skills, they are the baseline for economic stability and national strength. Every child deserves mastery and exposure to real economic paths. That means defending and fixing the only system designed to serve all of them: public education.
Economic Stability is National Security
Wages here and across America no longer match the cost of survival.
Millions of Americans work full time, many with advanced degrees and still can’t afford rent, groceries, or basic peace of mind. That isn’t a personal failure. It’s a national design flaw, and Congress has a responsibility to fix it.
Housing & Healthcare as Foundational Systems
Families are being priced out of stability.
Rent, medication, and basic survival costs are rising while investors sit on vacant properties and working families are pushed into cycles of instability. Housing and healthcare should be foundations, not weapons that force people out of the communities they built.
District Renewal & American Production
Ohio’s 11th District should be building the future, not watching it pass by.
We have the workforce, the industrial legacy, and the location to lead America’s next production era. Instead, federal dollars are routed to out-of-state corporations and overseas suppliers while local talent is left behind. That’s a policy choice, and it can be reversed.
WHERE I STAND
Amendment Rights
The Constitution is not abstract. These amendments shape real life from speech and safety to justice and voting rights. Here’s where I stand:
First Amendment: I believe in and fully uphold the freedoms wherein. I REJECT CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM and I stand firmly against any effort to erode the separation of church and state.
Second Amendment: We need real gun safety laws that DO NOT criminalize responsible ownership. We can protect both the community and the Constitution.
Fourth Amendment: We need stronger oversight of policing and surveillance programs that DO NOT encourage the disproportionate targeting of marginalized communities through unlawful searches.
Fifth Amendment: Everyone deserves due process, including tenants, students, and working-class people facing civil systems stacked against them.
Sixth Amendment: We need to fix the broken public defender system and ensure fairness for people who can’t afford legal help.
Tenth Amendment: I support strong local governance, but not when states use it to block civil rights or limit access to healthcare, voting, or education.
Thirteenth Amendment: The 13th Amendment’s exception clause is still being exploited. We need prison reform that DOES NOT treat Black lives like labor units.
Fourteenth Amendment: This amendment is the foundation of civil rights law. I’ll fight to protect and expand its application, especially in education and housing.
Fifteenth Amendment: We still need modern protections against voter suppression. Voting should be easy, secure, and fair for everyone.
Nineteenth Amendment: I represent the future that this amendment imagined. We now need economic, healthcare, and parental policies that reflect our power as voters and caretakers.
WHERE I STAND
Policy Positions
These are the positions I will defend, legislate from, and be held accountable to as your representative in Congress.
Foreign Aid & Military Funding: I will vote NO on military aid that funds genocide. No to war on Iran or Lebanon. No to the erasure of people in Gaza, Sudan, and the Congo. No to the failed blockade on Cuba. I stand for an immediate, sustained ceasefire and will never allow OH-11 tax dollars to facilitate global destruction. Our resources must fund our neighborhoods, not the military-industrial complex.
Public Education & Vouchers:I oppose federal tax-credit scholarships & vouchers that siphon billions from our neighborhoods to subsidize private tuition. As an educator, I know public education is national infrastructure. In Congress, I will fully fund Title I and IDEA, ensuring federal dollars stay in the public schools that serve the majority of our children. I stand for equity, accountability, and the right to a high-quality education for all.
Cost of Living, Inflation & Small Business: OH-11 shouldn’t just survive; we should thrive. I support a "Neighborhood First" plan that redirects federal funds away from global monopolies and directly into local anchors. I will fight for a federal wage floor that meets the 2026 cost of living and provide direct tax credits for small businesses to offset inflation. I want to ensure that the wealth generated in our neighborhoods stay in our neighborhoods.
Gun Safety: OH-11 is facing an epidemic of illegal, unregistered firearms. I support policies to track and remove illegal guns from our streets and hold manufacturers accountable for the trafficking loopholes that flood our neighborhoods with violence. We don't need more thoughts and prayers; we need federal accountability for the industries profiting off our pain.
Military Interventions: I will vote NO on unauthorized interventions or wars of choice, like the escalation in Iran. All U.S. military engagement must follow our Constitution and international law. No president should bypass the rules or jeopardize American lives without clear, lawful purpose and authorization.
Criminal Justice Reform: I support expunging nonviolent drug offenses and shifting incarceration dollars into proven prevention and reentry job training. We must dismantle the prison pipelines, that treat our neighbors like profit centers. I support reforms that balance fairness with community safety, ensuring our justice system actually delivers justice, not just paperwork and sentences.
Immigration Laws: I stand to defund ICE and end unlawful detention. Our system must be defined by humanity, not mass incarceration or family separation. I support securing our borders through due process and modernizing citizenship paths to align with our 2026 workforce needs. We must reinvest the billions spent on rogue enforcement into small businesses and local economic survival.
LGBTQ+ Rights & Civil Liberties: I will fiercely enforce federal anti-discrimination protections in housing, healthcare, and the workplace to ensure every neighbor is safe. I also believe that public schools must remain focused on academic mastery and workforce readiness, not social or religious ideology. My line in the sand is simple: the classroom is for education; the home is for the family. I will fight to ensure every student in OH-11 is safe, but I will also ensure that our schools focus on the math, science, and literacy skills required for our children to lead.
Voting Rights & Election Integrity:
I support secure elections, but I will not allow "integrity" to be used as a cover for voter suppression. I firmly oppose the SAVE Act, which creates a 'show your papers' barrier that would effectively end mail-in registration and local voter drives in our neighborhoods. In Congress, I will fight for a system that uses modern technology to verify eligibility on the back-end, ensuring the ballot box remains accessible to every legitimate voter in the 11th District.
Reproductive Rights: I am both pro-choice and pro-life. I support a woman’s right to choose in pregnancy, but I also believe that once a child is viable, able it deserves protection. This is about medical privacy and common sense: protecting a woman’s fundamental right to her own healthcare decisions while honoring the sanctity of life as it develops.
Climate Change & Energy: I support prioritizing clean air and water for front-line communities and creating jobs in resilient infrastructure. We must stop the Data Center Drain. I will fight to ensure that massive tech facilities pay their share for the energy and water they consume, rather than shifting those costs onto our neighbors. I stand for a transition to clean energy that lowers your bills and protects Lake Erie from industrial waste.
Maternal Mortality: Maternal mortality is a national crisis, but the neglect of the Black womb starts long before pregnancy. I will fight for a Whole-Woman health mandate that includes research and treatment, targeted funding, accountability measures to close the fatal gap in maternal health outcomes and, ensure that the health of Black women is treated as a priority, because our lives have intrinsic value, not just our labor.