Candidate for Indiana House of Representatives - District 71 in 2024 Indiana Primary Election.
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Get StartedBe sure funding for research, prevention, and treatment remains a priority. Learn more
Address drug dependence before it begins—in the middle and high school classrooms. Learn more
Encourage patients and providers to consider nonnarcotic means of controlling pain. Learn more
Let’s keep in mind that all businesses should be accountable to their workers and the public in general. Offer a decent living wage. Look at the reasonable housing prices in this community, and encourage your employees to live here. Realize the costs of owning an automobile may be out of reach for your newest employees, and reward those who car pool, or consider providing free TARC passes. Encourage your HR Department to truly engage with workers. Assist with housing and childcare—retention of employees is more cost effective than having to train a new worker. Learn more
I shop at and support small businesses. I hire local contractors. Let’s keep our unique Southern Indiana businesses, and welcome new ones, with innovative financing options. Remember that a greater percent of money spent at locally-owned businesses stays here. Learn more
Our schools should provide college prep courses as well as the means to acquire knowledge and skills applicable to jobs in manufacturing and much needed technical services. Learn more
Once elected, I will work to engage all partners. Local hospitals and outpatient facilities, physician offices, nurses and advanced nurse practitioners, and other health care providers all have important roles in the prevention of illness and treatment of disease. Individuals should be treated as stakeholders, and assume some responsibility for their own health. So let’s keep health care, and the means to pay for it, within reach of everyone in our state. Learn more
Let’s provide workforce placement assistance for all in our community, including: Military veterans looking for civilian jobs Senior citizens are ready for full retirement Previously incarcerated individuals who are working toward a new future. Learn more
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