Candidate for Utah House of Representatives - District 13 in 2022 Utah General Election.
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Get StartedIf elected, I will hold a number of town hall meetings throughout House District 13 during November, December, and early January with the possible use of a facilitator, now a bioethics professor, from the University of Utah (whom I took undergraduate classes from during the 1970s) to obtain a resident consensus on the following talking points and approaches to addressing abortion in a pro-life era. Learn more
Develop a Utah first policy where Utah does not have to depend as much on outside market fluctuations. Learn more
Reduce the importation of national companies using our tax dollars that contributes to excessive growth, bringing in their own employees and focus instead on investing in our own local business growth and retaining our own values. Learn more
Preserve and provide more incentives for local agriculture to supply our own food demands, reducing transportation costs while offering fresher and healthier produce. Learn more
Develop our own state retail and service website for local businesses, where delivery of goods and services can more quickly reach homes and exchanges and refunds can be handled more efficiently at reduced costs to businesses. Learn more
Reduce our State's emphasis on continued unsustainable growth that only puts more pressure on increasing demand over supply that contributes to inflation and instead focus on quality of life over quantity of life. Learn more
I am committed to expanding and transforming our farmer markets into a community-wide commercial vendors' market that would become a destination business center for the County year round. Learn more
If elected, I will push hard to elect or influence more County Commissioners and amend laws that will promote urban farms in our communities. Learn more
North Davis students, low-income students, and minority students need community leaders who will fight for local authority and adequate resources directed towards local schools, teachers, and students to help students become educated, productive citizens not wards of the state. We cannot afford to allow our children to lag behind the rest of the world while students from other countries and other states take away better-paying jobs. Learn more
We need parent and teacher-driven schools in the second-largest school district in Utah. Our district is too big to be operated from the top-down. By amending existing state law, our local school community councils can easily become the most powerful voices at our local schools for positive change. Learn more
By increasing the academic and real-world rigor of our school curriculum, all high school seniors in their final year of high school could receive on-the-job training through real world education-business partnerships. We can introduce business and professional mentors for one-on-one assessment and support. Learn more
Instead of depending on letter grades to evaluate how our students are doing, using naturalistic evaluation methods such as narrative evaluations by local business people and professionals in the real world, both students and prospective employers can truly begin to understand each individuals' strengths and weaknesses such as those used by New College, Sarasota Florida where I went to school. Learn more
Explore the possibility of developing paid internships or apprenticeships with local businesses and invest in its students by extending low-cost or free college educational opportunities if students commit to working in Utah. Learn more
Instead students before entering into our public schools need to be offered free and timely psychological and mental health screenings (with parental opt out options available) so that needed individualized educational plans and services can be identified and provided as required by law. Our schools need more mental health and special education personnel to work with these students so our teachers will actually be able to teach. Learn more
As your state representative I will work to pass a law to give voters more say as to what happens in their own communities through requiring public referendums on Master Plans on how local communities develop and creation of Local Independent Housing Development Commissions Learn more
We can cut health care cost by by maintaining and expanding "affordable" health care insurance. Our State needs to expand “affordable” health care insurance to everyone, including the middle- and upper middle-class residents. Learn more
Continue to vigorously move ahead with my 2018 proposal to diminish the role that Pharmacy Benefit Managers have to artificially boosting the cost of prescriptions. Utah needs to work collaboratively with other states and our major health care providers to directly negotiate with drug companies cutting out the exorbitant cost of intermediary powerbrokers to reduce the excessive cost of prescription drugs. Learn more
will call for a health care summit of consumers, providers and government officials to simplify and consolidate the mountains of complicated insurance forms and paperwork. Learn more
I will work to re-direct state funds to community organizations that partner with other agencies to provide in-home health care and social services. Learn more
If elected, I will work vigorously with local prosecutors and the Attorney General Office as well as insurance providers, mental health practitioners, and institutions of higher education to ensure that all legal and educational efforts are made to increase the access to and lower the cost of mental health services to our community residents that they are legally entitled to. Learn more
ELIMINATE ALL STATE TAXES ON SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS Learn more
STUDY FREEZING PROPERTY TAXES OF SENIOR CITIZENS DIRECTED TOWARDS EDUCATION Learn more
As your Utah State House Representative, I will fight for our seniors and continually demand from and shine a public spotlight on our Utah Congressional Delegation that they take action now and reveal to Utah voters their own specific plans or positions that they will push for in 2023 and beyond to save our medical care and social security into our old age or that they step aside. Learn more
Working to pass government TAX REFORM LAWS that involve Utahns paying their "fair share" of government services, making sure that those families earning over a million dollars a year contribute their share of the burden of operating our state and local governments. Learn more
Increasing TRANSPARENCY by researching and making sure that the residents of Northern Davis County understand in detail how much and where government revenue is actually coming from to operate State government programs each year, including how much internet sales taxes have helped to balance the loss of retail sales from our bricks and mortar stores, which has been estimated to add between $30 million to $70 million dollars each year to the state budget, according to Brett Hastings of Utah Legislative Watch, at a United Women's Forum on January 8, 2020. Learn more
Involving LOCAL RESIDENTS, especially those educated in accounting and economics to help develop our own Community position on tax reform and then directly involving local residents in helping your State Representative to come up with our own position on how we pay taxes and spend your money for government services. Learn more
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