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Values & Platform

“I am a proud dad and husband, a former military intelligence officer, a trial lawyer, a small business owner, a legislator, and just like you all, someone who loves this place and wants the best for Pocatello. That is who I am.”

My public policy platform includes the following issues:

INVESTMENT IN PUBLIC EDUCATION:

  • Find solutions to address Idaho’s teacher shortage
  • Overhaul and modernize the school funding formula
  • Make higher education more affordable and better equipped to produce graduates who are competitive in the marketplace

PROPERTY TAXES:

  • Solve the systemic problem leading to relentless property tax increases
  • Ensure property taxpayers are heard during the assessment and appeals processes
  • Make certain local governments are properly funded so they can support their communities

VOTING:

  • Expand voter access to the polls
  • Protect ballot initiative process
  • Ensure voting security

ACCESS TO QUALITY AND AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE:

  • Ensure Medicaid expansion takes place as approved by a super majority of Idaho voters in 2018
  • Help find solutions to reverse the continual increase in health care costs

PUBLIC LANDS:

  • Protect access to Idaho’s public lands for hiking, fishing and hunting
  • Keep Idaho’s rivers, lakes and water resources clean and useable

VETERANS:

  • Help veterans access their benefits
  • Ensure Idaho’s veterans programs and systems are working for the veterans they serve

EMPLOYERS, WORKERS AND UNION MEMBERS:

  • Protect PERSI
  • Focus on legislation that supports Idaho’s small businesses
  • Protect workers from discrimination
  • Fight for Idaho’s union members and their rights

BODILY AUTONOMY:

  • Fight for all Idahoans’ right to make highly sensitive, personal decisions about their reproductive health without government interference
  • Ensure that Idaho’s abortion laws are based in compassion and science, and that they take into account maternal health and welfare
  • Protect birth control and other related, essential forms of reproductive healthcare that women rely on throughout the state