Candidate for Wyoming House of Representatives - District 45 in 2018 Wyoming 2018 General Election.
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Get StartedAbortion should be legal, abortion should be safe and, above all, abortion should be rare. We can start by having open and candid conversations with our children about sex, procreation and birth control. Learn more
Under state and Federal law we currently extend anti-discrimination protections to people based on race, color, religion, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, citizenship, familial status, disability status, veteran status and genetic information. Nonetheless, under existing law, it remains legal to deny employment, housing and services to our fellow citizens based solely on their personal relationships. Why on earth should we allow that? It’s simply wrong and we need to change it. In fact, it should have been settled long ago. Why are we still talking about this? We really are better than that. Learn more
While crime is down, our prison populations continue to grow. Our state penitentiary in Rawlins is over-crowded and under-staffed. The medium-security prison in Torrington is nearing capacity and the women’s facility in Lusk is so full that inmates are being housed in county jails. We need to look for alternatives to simply locking away non-violent offenders. Learn more
Drug treatment, counseling and other means of paying one’s debt to society must be considered before we spend hundreds of millions on new prisons. Learn more
A marijuana possession conviction can derail a young person’s academic and career plans, having made them ineligible for federal student aid, saddle them with a record of a “drug conviction” and send otherwise decent young people through the maze of the judicial and penal systems. All to “protect” them from themselves. What are we accomplishing? Like I said, I remain convinced that the law is causing greater harm than the dangers we are trying to prevent. Learn more
Decriminalization of Marijuana: Laws are often designed to protect individuals and society from a real or perceived harm. But what happens when that law itself actually causes more harm than the dangers we’re trying to legislate away? Learn more
We also must continue supporting state investment in basic infrastructure, including transportation and communications technologies,that keep pace with developments in the rest of the country and the world. We have the opportunity to protect this state’s future, but only if we think in terms of the long-run. Learn more
By diversification, I don’t suggest that we invest our precious financial resources in every harebrained scheme that comes down the pike. In many ways, we’re already taking the right steps. We are investing the moneys we’ve derived from energy development in our future: namely our kids. We have a history of generously supporting education in this state. That has to continue and expand. Learn more
It is our duty to begin the hard work of diversifying this state’s economy so we that we never have to depend on the fluctuations of of global energy pricing. Learn more
We need to stop “teaching to the test” in our public schools. Testing serves a purpose, but it should not be the primary focus of educators. Learn more
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) subjects are the tools of a 21st Century economy. We need to promote the teaching of STEM subjects and do so as early in a child’s academic career as possible. Learn more
Education spending is an investment in this state’s future and it’s a key driver of economic development. Why on earth would the high-tech businesses we’re trying to attract and workers and their families move to a state with low quality schools and poor performance? We must protect the important investment we’ve made and fight further cuts to K-12, college and University funding. Learn more
Promoting STEM subjects to both male and female students would make strides in closing Wyoming’s embarrassingly large wage gap. Learn more
As a father, husband and brother I cannot fathom how the “free” market can relegate women in Wyoming to a secondary role when it comes to salaries. It has to stop and there are both short- and long-term solutions. In the immediate, we need to make it easier for women to raise the issue of wage discrimination at their work places. Learn more
Workers should not be penalized for discussing salaries and it may take legislation to ensure that those who do are not sanctioned by employers. In the long-run, we need to develop strategies to ensure that both male and female students are encouraged to pursue educational and career opportunities in those fields with the highest salaries. Learn more
No American should work full-time – whether that is in one job or two – and still not earn enough to keep a family above the poverty line. We’re better than that. Learn more
Try supporting a family on $14,500 a year. These are our fellow citizens; hard-working parents, students, sons, daughters, wives and husbands who do the jobs that keep the economy moving. Isn’t it time that a hard-working employee earns at least a living wage for that work? Learn more
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