Where I Stand

First bills

• Expand the property tax circuit breaker to owner-occupied homes at any age below the area median income, and drop the lien that keeps people from using it.
• Vote against rate increases that charge you for plants that are not built yet, and against deals that move a large user's costs onto residential bills.
• Stop the corporate rate slide to zero in 2030, and put the next cut where the work is instead.

First bills

• Refile the Voucher School Accountability Act: test scores, graduation rates, and an annual audit from every private school taking Opportunity Scholarship money. No reporting, no check.
• Fund the Leandro plan, which the state paid to have written and then ignored.
• Restore the advanced degree pay supplement North Carolina eliminated in 2013.

First bills

• Require the legislature to fund Medicaid at the level its own agency says is needed to keep current services. No new spending. Pay for what was already promised.
• Fund rural loan repayment for doctors who stay five years or more, and expand residency slots at community hospitals.
• Put the billing rights that already exist in front of patients: posted prices, itemized bills without asking, and charity care offered instead of buried.

First bills

• Create a statewide zoning class for data centers, with binding operating limits and independent monitoring, so counties stop shoehorning them into heavy manufacturing rules written for something else.
• Create a separate electric rate class for facilities that size, so they pay for the grid they need instead of putting it on residential bills.
• End code-name votes. State the power draw, the water demand, and the tenant in the application before anybody rezones anything, and write the developer's own jobs and tax numbers into the contract with a clawback attached.

First bills

• Pass the Redistricting Transparency Act: every proposed map and the data behind it published 14 days before a committee vote, with 30 days of public comment.
• Support an independent redistricting commission, and putting it on the ballot so voters decide it rather than legislators.
• Oppose new voting restrictions, and any change to the rules inside an election year.

What I'm for

• Repealing the parts of the 2023 law that are paperwork rather than medicine, starting with the extra in-person visit seventy-two hours ahead that turned one appointment into two or three. It makes nobody safer, and it lands hardest on people who work shifts and drive an hour each way.
• Putting the decision itself back with the patient and the doctor, instead of a date on a calendar chosen by people who have never met her.
• Protecting a doctor who follows the standard of care from losing a license or facing a charge for it.
• Leaving contraception and IVF where they are, which should not need saying and lately does.

What I'm for

• Co-sponsoring the five bills Equality NC has put in front of the legislature every session since 2016: statewide nondiscrimination protections in housing, employment, and public places, a ban on conversion therapy, an end to the gay and trans panic defense, repeal of what is left of HB 142, and domestic violence protection orders that cover LGBTQ+ people too.
• Co-sponsoring and voting for the resolution to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. That is what the ERA-NC Alliance certification commits a candidate to, and I signed it.
• Keeping treatment decisions for a kid with that kid's family and their doctor. The American Academy of Pediatrics says that care saves lives, and North Carolina took it away in 2023.