Currently holds the office of Oakland County Commission - District 4 until December 31, 2024.
Candidate for Oakland County Commission - District 4 in 2024 Michigan General Election.
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Get StartedOppose abstinance-only sex education pedagogy and curriculum. Learn more
Protect expanded enfranchisement by maintaining the same-day registration, vote from home, and automatic voter registration. Learn more
Enable prosecutors to treat hate crimes like hate crimes. The Legislature should expand the Ethnic Intimidation Act of 1931 to include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.”. Learn more
Ban conversion therapy. Learn more
Secure our election day procedures by ensuring Michiganders are only voting by paper ballot and that municipalities are using the most secure counting machines to process them. Clerks and election officials must be given the resources and time needed to process ballots in an accurate and efficient manner, and risk-management systems like post-election Risk-Limiting Audits should be rolled out across the state. Learn more
Expand Michigan’s Civil Rights Act to include protections for the LGBT community. Learn more
Support state law prohibiting people in any relationship, not just spouses, who have been convicted of domestic violence misdemeanors from having any firearms – not only handguns. Support state law requiring abusers convicted of domestic violence misdemeanors to turn in their firearms when they become prohibited from having them. Support state law prohibiting all people under final domestic violence restraining orders from having firearms. Support state law prohibiting all people under temporary domestic violence restraining orders from having firearms. Support state law prohibiting all convicted stalkers in the state of Michigan from having firearms. Support state law requiring law enforcement to remove firearms from the scene of a domestic violence incident. Learn more
I will work to enact state law to outright prohibit the transfer or possession of assault weapons, 50 caliber rifles, or large capacity ammunition magazines. Learn more
Demilitarize the Police. Learn more
Outlaw the operation of for-profit, private probation services, and revert all cases to State case workers. Learn more
Ban law enforcement from using real-time facial recognition technology without a warrant, barring exigent circumstances. Learn more
Mandate mental health alternative transfer availability for 911 calls. Learn more
Establish a Michigan Police Misconduct Database for the purpose of recording officers who have criminal convictions, have been fired or forced to resign, have had their law enforcement licenses revoked or suspended, or have been named in a judgment or settlement involving misconduct (with an indication on whether they have used excessive force among other related indicators). This will illuminate a data-starved policymaking void, allowing lawmakers to make better rules about policing. It will also help mitigate the practice of subpar officers moving from town to town after being fired and rehired, in a vicious cycle. Learn more
End our discriminatory cash bail system. Learn more
Reduce Arrests for Failure to Appear and Failure to Pay. We need to end mass incarceration, and failure to appear in court and failure to pay are the most common reasons for arrest in Michigan. Poverty is not a crime, and we can better treat this issue as a state by reducing fine amounts, tying fines to income-based figures rather than flat rates, offering alternatives such as community service, and encouraging innovative debt forgiveness incentives for those who make consistent fine payments. Learn more
Streamline and simplify the expungement process. The Legislature should streamline the expungement process for individuals with misdemeanor and low-level felony convictions. By eliminating steep legal fees, the need for a lawyer, and providing easy accessibility, we can more efficiently get Michiganders out of jail when their previously committed crimes are no longer crimes. Learn more
End the use of flat-rate fines for civil infractions, and instead tie all fines to a multiple of the state’s set minimum hourly wage or the derived hourly wage of the infractor. Learn more
The State should require that defendants be tried within 18 months of arrest, absent waiver, acquiescence, or agreement by the defendant. Defendants should not have to actively assert their speedy trial rights in order to preserve them. Learn more
Protect our students by ensuring that the only firearms allowed on school campuses are those which are maintained by sanctioned law enforcement and security personnel. Learn more
Urge Michigan’s Congressional delegation to end qualified immunity for police officers who commit misconduct and crimes on the job. Learn more
Install consumer protections against gender-based price descrimination in personal care products. Learn more
Expand access to full-day preschool. Learn more
I endorse and will work to support Superintendent Shaner’s plan to put a mental health clinician in every school in Rochester Community Schools and work to ensure that Avondale schools achieve the same. Learn more
Recalibrate teacher evaluations. Michigan’s educators should be evaluated in a way that helps them grow their craft and advance their teaching, acknowledging geographic, socioeconomic, and racially systemic inequities. Evaluations should prioritize long-term educational impact, classroom climate, and student-teacher relationships rather than ability to teach-to-the-test. Learn more
By establishing a Michigan State Loan Repayment Program for teachers, like our state already has for many healthcare professionals, we can attract more qualified individuals to this profession. Learn more
Encourage academic excellence by expanding access to dual enrollment programs for high schoolers at colleges and universities. Our students must be ready for whichever path is right for them after graduating high school – be that higher education, a trades program, or entering the workforce. Learn more
Maintain pressure on the federal government to reconstruct the Soo Locks. Learn more
Prevent human waste from contaminating our fresh water system by implementing a statewide septic code. Learn more
Open a Government Constituent Services Center in the Rochester area. Learn more
Modernize Michigan’s government websites to ensure compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Learn more
Expand Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to include the Michigan Legislature as well as the Executive branch. Learn more
Develop online databases to provide citizens with easy access to records on laws and government spending. Learn more
Remove unsafe background check exemptions for loaned firearms, as are currently granted in Michigan law. Learn more
Amend accidental typos in current Michigan law to require criminal background checks on all firearms, not just “handguns.”. Learn more
Make Michigan make sense with one minimum age. Since different gun laws in Michigan yield different minimum ages (18 vs. 21) for firearm purchase, all minimum ages should be set at 21 years old. Learn more
Prevent crises before they occur by enacting extreme risk detection laws, sometimes called “red flag laws.”. Learn more
Ensure child safety at home by enacting safe storage laws, requiring firearm owners to lock their weapons in appropriate cases when not in use. Learn more
Lower the cost of prescription drugs by introducing greater competition into the domestic drug market. Learn more
Cap the cost-sharing price or copay of insulin and other notable vital drugs. This is a simple piece of legislation that will help Michiganders afford the prescription drugs they need to stay healthy. No one should go bankrupt to stay healthy or even alive. Learn more
Invest in telemedicine, especially for specialty services. Learn more
Incentivize all Michigan healthcare providers to use the same Electronic Health Records system. By having all Michigan healthcare providers using the same EHR system, countless hours (and dollars!) are saved from no longer needing to fill out introductory forms each time you visit a new doctor. Medical professionals will be better able to focus on individual patients holistically, seeing the whole picture of a patient to make better care judgments and be able to communicate more efficiently with a patient’s other providers. Learn more
Promote, expand, and improve the use of integrated healthcare. Learn more
Combat the HIV epidemic by ending the public stigma of HIV, increasing preventative education in schools, and by ensuring ready access to PrEP and PEP for Michiganders who should be using those preventative drugs. Learn more
Improve healthcare service to BIPOC communities by increasing the number of BIPOC doctors and healthcare professionals. Learn more
Advance the use of telemedicine by closing gaps in broadband internet capacity and connection. Helping physicians and mental health providers prescribe controlled substances through telemedicine will go a long way toward reducing the supply-demand mismatch currently existing. Learn more
Increase price transparency. We should be requiring manufacturers to notify the state 60 days in advance of any planned increase of 10% or more in the price of brand-name drugs, and any 25% or greater increase in the price of generic drugs. This will give doctors and patients enough advance notice to adjust and consider what to do. Learn more
We must train providers to address bias and racism and build a healthcare workforce demographically reflective of our population. We must increase access to prenatal care, urge healthcare providers to “bundle” maternity care, and address the socio-economic issues that are leaving Black women and infants more vulnerable. Learn more
Support innovative transportation reengineering by securing funding for good road reconfigurations, like the replacement of standard intersections with roundabouts. Learn more
Encourage intersystem cooperation by enacting “dig once” laws, which require states or localities to install conduit—the empty pipe that internet and electrical cables run through—when building or upgrading infrastructure, such as roads, sidewalks, and bridges. These statutes are meant to encourage fiber investment because the land will not need to be dug up for future projects— minimizing frustration for residents, limiting costs for providers and government, and maintaining road agencies’ statutory authority to protect the road right-of-way for general physical planning purposes. Learn more
Encourage the expansion of Michigan’s on-the-road electric vehicle (EV) charging network by supporting state grants to private businesses, restaurants, parking garages, and multi-unit housing facilities to install charging and fast charging stations for EVs. The state should also install or lease space for electric charging stations in state parks, and on other state properties to both augment the EV charging network and generate state revenue. Learn more
Work with municipalities to identify and remove all lead water pipes. Learn more
Shed light on the Lansing lobbying industry by passing legislation that would bar lobbyists from giving officials free meals or anything of value, create a two-year cooling-off period before former elected officials could become lobbyists and would require lobbyists to publicly log what topics they discuss with lawmakers. Learn more
End legislative term limits and the revolving door in Lansing that result in lobbyists having more control than elected officials. Learn more
Commit to national education and labor standards by promulgating Michigan’s accession to the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Board’s Agreement of Reciprocity. Learn more
Enact a Michigan Healthcare Bill of Rights. We need to protect people with pre-existing conditions, prevent massive rate hikes, protect essential health benefits, prevent annual or lifetime healthcare coverage gaps, and stop the “Age Tax.”. Learn more
End the “tampon tax,” and make feminine hygiene products tax-exempt. Learn more
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