Previous Offices Held
2024, State House of Representatives
Top Three Priorities
1. Affordable health care: Continue working to address the challenges of our complex health care system and advance substantive policies that ensure consumers have access to affordable, quality health care. 2. Gun safety: Support common-sense gun safety measures that protect Mainers from the devastating impact of gun violence. 3. Affordability: Support measures that make life more affordable for Mainers, including policies such as property tax stabilization.
Why are you running?
I would be honored to have the opportunity to continue to represent Cape Elizabeth residents in the state legislature where it is possible to make a meaningful and positive difference in people’s lives. There is still much more progress needed on issues such as affordable health care, childcare, long-term care, energy and housing. We face complex challenges that require thoughtful, substantive solutions, and I want to continue doing the work needed to move our state forward.
What is one way Maine is on the right track? What is one way the state is on the wrong track?
Free community college has been enormously popular and is helping more young Mainers pursue educational and workforce training opportunities. This in turn encourages them to stay, work and raise their families in our state. There will always be complex challenges that require our attention. Affordability and decreasing accessibility of health care in Maine are two of those challenges. We need to work together to develop substantive solutions that make a meaningful difference in people’s lives.
As one of several dozen legislators in your chamber, how would you make a measurable difference for your constituents?
I meet regularly with constituents to listen to the issues that matter most to them. I am responsive to their concerns and committed to doing everything I can to help. As a first-term legislator, I quickly learned how to work effectively with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to pass laws that expand access to quality health care and protect our state’s health care system from harmful private equity practices. I am well positioned to build on this work.
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?
This is an extremely challenging time, with uncertainty and disruption coming from the federal administration, much of which has consequences for Maine. Increasing property taxes remain a significant concern for Mainers. The state legislature has made some progress in recent years and I would look to build upon those changes so that Maine residents see noticeable and impactful property tax relief.