Issues

Education

• Make education a priority
• Increase teacher’s salaries and fix PEIA
• Adequately give tax credit to teachers for purchased supplies
• End state support of charter schools
• Support teacher’s right to strike and unionize
• Expand school, after-school and weekend food programs
• Fund more nonathletic extra-curricular activities
• Expand scholarship program to 2.0 students and make 3.0 scholarship available based on performance even after enrollment
• Promote trade schools at the same level as colleges
• Place social workers and counselors in every school, including pre-K, to help children and teach coping skills

Infrastructure

• Stop Right to Work and return the Prevailing Wage
• Enforce West Virginia Jobs Act and make out of state companies hire locally
• Preference given to union companies for state contracts
• Put West Virginians to work fixing our roads and bridges and not just patching them

Jobs

• Protect and promote unions (investigate claims of wrongful termination due to union talks)
• Raise the severance tax
• Support small business through the WV Can’t Wait Small Business Revolution
• Legalize marijuana (legislated to give advantage to local farmers and local dispensaries)

Opioid Crisis

• Support better after treatment care with support services, such as employment services and follow-up care
• Establish more inpatient care facilities
• Make drug distributors publicly publish what drugs are coming into our state
• Cap the price of insulin, EpiPens and other life-saving drugs
• Improve mental health access

While this list includes many of the issues we would like to see addressed at the state level, it does not cover everything. I look forward to meeting and talking with as many people in Marion County as I can and see where we share concerns and common ground. That is who I want to represent, every resident of Marion County.