House District 47
PLATFORM:
Indiana needs functional infrastructure, bodily autonomy, real choices, and freedoms in their everyday lives. The trend of being at the bottom of national lists for quality of life, education, and socioeconomic equity and equality must end and it ends by voting out the supermajority.
From the League of Women Voters Questionnaire:
What types of environmental legislation do you believe are important to consider for addressing current environmental challenges, and how would you prioritize these measures?
1. Water Rights
2. New Business Environmental Impact Statement: How will the business get water and energy? What is the business waste management plan? How do these support the goals of the Paris Agreement? From day one, any item that would cross my desk (including the supply of the desk itself) will be a questioned about its environmental impact. It is a simple question to ask. However, until this process is put into law, it can obviously be ignored. The current process is to do whatever people want simply to make money without regard to the environment. That must change.
What is your approach to ensuring the long-term quality and sustainable use of Indiana’s water resources?
Water rights legislation. Water use is already a problem outside of Indiana. There are already legislation in place around the country to manage this. Indiana has to get with modern times. Be imaginative with water use and recycling of the water. In many cases single use non-contact process water doesn’t have to be discharged. It can be reused for other purposes.
What is your perspective on the role of state governments in addressing illegal immigration?
Support the federal government (encourage our state representatives to the US congress) to pass a comprehensive achievable immigration policy. This topic has been tossed around for years with very little progress. Tell the fired FORMER president to stop holding his party hostage and let them get to work. They are hurting the country with their lack of productivity. I still believe that the United States is a great place for immigrants. What better place for someone in need to land than Indiana. We know how to take care of each other. We have the space and resources to welcome many people. It is also helpful to everyone that they are able to effectively work through a legal pathway to residency and ultimately citizenship.
What is your stance on the use of school vouchers, and how do you believe they impact public schools and educational equity?
Public school vouchers for private schools (particularly religious private schools) is bad policy. I am in favor of going to school within the district of a child’s home. This provides a very close to home support structure for the student and guardian from friends to carpooling. However, will millions of children there will extenuating circumstances. These circumstances should be efficiently considered by application and allow for a student to transfer to another public school using a voucher.
What are your views on abortion, and how do you propose to address the varying perspectives on this issue within your policies and legislation?
Abortion is a medical procedure between a woman and her doctor. I should stay out of that conversation. Others should stay out of it. Since I am a man, shouldn’t you be asking about my views on vasectomies? No, because that is also a medical procedure between a person and their doctor.