Learn a little more about where I stand.
AFFORDABILITY
It's no secret that everything costs more than it ever has. Whether we're talking groceries to feed our families, gas for our cars, electricity to run our air conditioning, or the insurance to protect our families' health, it all adds up to an unprecedented sum of money that is crippling for many. My family's health insurance should not be our household's second highest expense behind our mortgage. With the advances we have made in healthcare; especially those in our very own hometown where many come to seek the highest standard in medical care, we should not have to live in fear of bankruptcy when we need to access that healthcare. I will fully support a push towards a Medicare for All system, where we can reap the benefits of our ingenuity without fear of financial ruin, and where our innovative and brilliant medical research community can continue to thrive. We have abundant natural resources in PA with endless potential for renewable energy - from solar to wind to geothermal - and all ways that we can simultaneously reduce our dependence on foreign oil, create a new wave of industry and jobs, and lower our environmental impact. Pennsylvania is also home to rich agricultural landscapes, producing a variety of high-quality and healthy foods. By nurturing and promoting the robust local food system, we can greatly improve and support the regional food economy. This will empower farmers, minimize transportation, and sustain residents with high quality, locally-grown foods. This is especially important to me as part of operating my family's food distribution business, where we prioritize the distribution of regionally-produced foods.
WOMEN'S RIGHTS & HUMAN RIGHTS
This is one thing I will not budge on. I want to ensure that my daughter, and everyone's daughters, get to grow up in a place where they have the same freedoms and bodily autonomy rights that their MOTHERS and their GRANDMOTHERS had, at the very least. It's their body. It's their choice. Period. We shouldn't have to be taking this stand in 2026, but thanks to the rollback of federal laws, we must act at the state level to ensure we not only protect these fundamental human rights, but to continue fighting to expand upon them. Further, the civil and human rights of all Pennsylvanians must be protected. Whether it's the reproductive freedoms of our daughters, or the constitutional freedoms and due process deserving of our immigrant neighbors; all citizens of our commonwealth deserve dignity, respect, and the rights granted to them by our constitution.
SENSIBLE GUN LEGISLATION
I'm not the only one who finds it troubling that my children have normalized lockdown drills at school. It's time that the adults in the room starting acting like it, and pass sensible gun legislation. As a responsible gun owner, someone who has experienced firsthand the effects of gun violence, and someone who grew up on a farm, I understand the complexities of the issue, and I firmly believe that we can have sensible gun ownership AND sensible gun legislation. Anything we can do to take steps in the direction of saving lives and mitigating future tragedies is something we must do. My father lost his own father to gun violence when he was just 24 years old. I had just turned 4 years old. I grew up bearing witness to the damages inflicted on multiple generations of a family resulting from gun violence, even to this very day. It's well past the point of acknowledging that we have a gun violence problem in this country. We must do whatever we can safeguard our families, our communities, and our law enforcement officers. Whether it's implementing mandatory background checks or banning ghost guns, we can institute policies that respect human life and the Second Amendment.
IMPROVED INFRASTRUCTURE
I am a firm believer in the reinvestment of our hard-earned tax dollars back into our local economy for the benefit and betterment of the community. Our district covers a wide range of the north hills of Pittsburgh, some of which have seen rapid recent growth and an influx of businesses, new residents, and money. Others, such as the Route 8 corridor, have fallen victim to neglect and a lack of future planning. This roadway is a major artery to and from the City, and connects Pittsburgh to Butler and points farther north, and is home to generations of local residents who rely not only on the paved surface itself, but on the businesses who populate its borders. With targeted investments, improved safety measures, and a re-envisioned future of this corridor, the opportunities are endless for improving our local economy, our young drivers' safety, and our quality of life in better connecting our suburban neighborhoods to our city that we all call home.
GETTING MONEY OUT OF POLITICS
I stand firmly for getting money out of politics. Banning corporate gifts, placing limits on campaign contributions, and fighting against Citizens United to keep politics in our state for the people and BY the people, not by corporations and special interest groups, will help to make Pennsylvania's political landscape more accountable and will return bipartisan trust to our citizens. With overwhelming support, Pennsylvanians want to put an end to unchecked money influencing our political process and our state's legislation. It is unacceptable that 38 gift ban bills have been introduced and not passed in the last 25 years; this needs to change. We need to join the other 41 states with campaign contribution limits to show the people of our commonwealth that we can't be bought with unlimited campaign spending, and that we are committed to serving the people we represent. And finally, we need to reject Citizens United and ban the spending of corporate dark money in our political process. Simply put: people should decide political outcomes, not corporations.
VOTING RIGHTS
I will continue to foster the democratic process by helping to EXPAND access to voting, thereby increasing voting rights, rather than reduce voting access. I will fight against efforts like the SAVE Act, which are designed to alienate, discriminate, and disenfranchise voters. We need our democracy to be functional rather than dysfunctional, and I will work to empower all eligible Pennsylvanians to be involved and engaged in our voting.