Previous Offices Held
Currently serving third term on Eliot Select Board, having returned to the board in June 2025. Previously elected to the board in 2018 and 2021 before resigning in 2022. Served as vice chair during first term and chair during second term.
Top Three Priorities
Making Maine more affordable, especially housing, health care and property taxes; making sure our public schools have the funding and support they need; and helping small businesses and local communities grow without losing what makes Maine a great place to live.
Why are you running?
I’m running because I care about this community and I think I can help. I’ve spent years in local government seeing where the state gets things right and where it makes things harder than it needs to be. I want to bring that experience to Augusta, work with people and focus on practical things that make life a little easier for the people who live here.
What is one way Maine is on the right track? What is one way the state is on the wrong track?
Maine gets a lot right when we invest in our schools, communities and the people who live here. Where we are getting it wrong is affordability. It is getting harder for regular people to buy a home, pay their property taxes, afford health care and keep up with everyday expenses. We need to make it possible for people to build a life here and stay here.
As one of several dozen legislators in your chamber, how would you make a measurable difference for your constituents?
I would show up, listen and do the work. A lot of government is not glamorous. It is returning calls, helping someone navigate a state agency, understanding the details of a bill and working with people you may not always agree with. That is how I have approached local government, and that is how I would approach Augusta.
Surveys show the economy is the top concern of voters. What is a specific proposal addressing Maine voters’ economic anxieties that you’d work to make law?
I would focus on the cost of simply living here. One specific thing I would work on is getting the state to carry more of the cost of public education so towns are not constantly forced to make up the difference through property taxes. People are getting squeezed from every direction, and we need to find real ways to lower that pressure.