Currently holds the office of Pennsylvania House of Representatives - District 48 until December 1, 2024.
Candidate for Pennsylvania House of Representatives - District 48 in 2024 Pennsylvania General Election.
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Get StartedSimply put, the dollars we’re not putting into treating addicts multiply into dollars we spend prosecuting them. A 2014 state white paper estimated that every dollar invested in treatment with the appropriate level of care and length-of- stay, translates into a 7 return to the state treasurer in reduced criminal justice costs. Yet our state’s funding level for opioid and addiction treatment is only 14 percent of what it needs to be. As your state representative, Tim O’Neal will fight to properly fund treatment for people addicted to opioids. And he’ll fight to restore the cabinet-level Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs which Gov. Tom Wolf attempted to gut last year. Tim knows that we need to treat the opioid epidemic as a public health crisis to be handled by professionals, not handed over to a desk at PEMA, an agency designed to deal with floods and snowstorms. Learn more
Pennsylvania spends more per pupil that most other states, with sky-high property taxes and unfunded mandates handed down by Harrisburg bureaucrats who don’t understand the districts to which they dictate. Tim knows that the biggest crisis facing our schools is a failure to let local school boards do their jobs. He knows that 70 billion in unfunded public pension debt – most of it for public schools – is a recipe for disaster. And he understands that we won’t get results for our tax dollars until we set the priorities for public education as: Student, Family, Teacher – and in that order. Learn more
Reform is an issue bigger than politics. There is no “party” solution to the problem of public corruption. There is only a bipartisan solution, with everyone working together for all citizens. We can’t change Harrisburg without changing its culture, and that comes from leading by example. He’ll never vote for increases in the income and sales taxes. He’ll drive his own car, won’t accept the lavish lifetime pension, and he’ll term limit himself. Learn more
Pennsylvania is currently within a day’s drive of 60 percent of all North American markets, and more than a half-trillion in goods travel our highways annually. We have the highest gas tax in the nation, but our roads are still pockmarked, bridges still crumble, and the dollars designed to repair our roads are being diverted to other purposes. What’s the use in having high road taxes if they don’t fix our roads? Tim will work to reform transportation funding. We don’t lack money for our roads. We lack the priorities to get the job done. Learn more
Right now, liberals in Harrisburg are fighting to add new taxes to our growing natural gas industry. Their extremist allies in the so-called environmental movement are pushing to shut down everything from natural gas wells to coal-fired power plants. We need a new direction that is job-friendly and that understands that a good-paying job beats a new tax any day. Learn more
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