POLICY ISSUES
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This campaign launched March 11, 2025. Since the beginning, we’ve talked about taking a different path to achieve a different result. I intend to look at past, current, and future legislation through a lens of restore, reform, and repeal. What legislation has passed that negatively impacts our country and that needs to be repealed? What has been taken away that should be restored? And lastly, what in our political system needs to be reformed?
This isn’t your typical campaign, and this isn’t your typical issues section. Our intent wasn’t to tell people what to think, but rather to listen to their concerns. In response to what we heard, this is our plan to improve the lives of the people we seek to serve.
Campaign Finance
I think voters on both sides of the aisle will agree that our political system is corrupt. Every year billions of dollars are poured into our elections, much of it from super PACs, the wealthiest individuals, and the largest corporations. Billions more are spent on lobbying congress; there are roughly 20 registered lobbyists per member of Congress and many more unregistered. Members of Congress often leave office to take jobs with lobbying firms that pay them 10 times their congressional salary, giving politicians additional incentives to vote in their favor. The reversal of Citizens United has flooded our system with dark money to super PACs. Although the individual donation to a candidate is limited to $3500 per election, in the 2024 campaign cycle, Elon Musk spent more than $290 million on political contributions. This is essentially democracy for sale. The lack of regulation in cryptocurrency is adding another level of corruption to our system, further allowing unregulated, undisclosed, and even foreign money into the process.
I support a constitutional amendment that would overturn Citizens United.
I support regulations on cryptocurrencies and especially the profit off of meme coins by elected officials.
I would support currently proposed legislation that bans former members of Congress from engaging in any lobbying activities aimed at influencing Congress or federal agencies after they leave office.
I support the efforts of Unrig Washington which is centered around three critical reforms that voters are demanding:
Ban Congressional Stock Trading: Support legislation to prohibit Members of Congress from trading individual stocks. Public office is a place to serve, not to profit (A new study revealed that members of Congress perform 47% better in stock trades than the average investor, thanks to access to nonpublic information).
Refuse Corporate PAC Money: Reject all contributions from corporate PACs to send a clear message: Elected officials' priorities are the people, not powerful corporations or special interests.
Crack Down on Dark Money: Fight to end the flood of undisclosed political spending by supporting legislation to expose secret donors, increase transparency, and fix the FEC to have a cop on the beat. It's time to end the dominance of billionaire-funded special interest groups.
