Previous Offices Held
This is my first time running for office.
Top Three Priorities
1. Make Maine more affordable: expand housing, lower healthcare and energy costs, and make it easier for working families to get ahead. 2. Protect rural healthcare: keep our hospitals open and ensure Mainers can access quality care close to home. 3. Strengthen Maine’s local economy: support small businesses, farmers, workers and communities so more of the money generated in Maine stays here.
Why are you running?
I’m running because I believe Maine can do better for the people who live and work here. I’ve spent my career helping entrepreneurs, businesses and communities solve practical problems, and I want to bring that experience to Augusta. I’m running to make Maine more affordable, protect the services rural communities depend on, and build an economy where working people can afford to stay, raise families and build a future.
What is one way Maine is on the right track? What is one way the state is on the wrong track?
Maine is on the right track when we invest in our communities, support small businesses and expand opportunities for people to build a good life here. We’re on the wrong track when too many Mainers are forced to choose between paying rent, heating their home, getting healthcare or putting food on the table. We need to focus less on abstract economic indicators and more on whether people can actually afford to live here.
As one of several dozen legislators in your chamber, how would you make a measurable difference for your constituents?
I would focus on being an effective legislator, not simply a loud one. I’d bring the concerns of Waterville, Winslow, Fairfield, Oakland and Albion to Augusta, build relationships across the aisle, and work to move practical legislation forward. I’d measure success by tangible outcomes: more housing, stronger rural healthcare, better economic opportunities and policies that put more money back into the pockets of working Mainers.
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 work to increase the amount of food purchased by state institutions from Maine farmers, fishermen and food producers. This would create reliable markets for Maine businesses while keeping more taxpayer dollars circulating in our communities. Strengthening our local food economy also makes Maine more resilient and creates opportunities for the next generation of farmers, producers and entrepreneurs.