• Make everyday life more affordable. Lower the burden of housing, energy, healthcare, childcare, groceries, and transportation.

• Protect working families from higher costs. Judge taxes, fees, and new regulations by what they will cost ordinary families.

• Keep rural transportation affordable. Protect our environment without making working families carry the cost at the gas pump.

• Build more housing. Cut unnecessary costs and delays that make homes more expensive to build.

• Create good-paying jobs here. Invest in timber, manufacturing, trades, ports, agriculture, energy, and infrastructure.

• Support small businesses. Make it easier for local businesses to start, grow, hire, and compete.

• Make work pay. Protect good wages, collective bargaining, apprenticeships, and safe workplaces.

• Make the wealthy and big corporations pay their share. Stop shifting more of the burden onto working families.

• Invest in rural Washington. Bring infrastructure, jobs, and economic development back to the communities that have too often been left behind.

Southwest Washington is growing, but we're not building the infrastructure needed to support that growth. When we fail to invest, we lose jobs, lose businesses, and leave working families behind.

• Expand energy infrastructure and power generation. Communities can't attract new employers, expand manufacturing, or create family-wage jobs if there isn't enough electrical capacity to support growth.

• Stop letting Southwest Washington miss out on economic opportunities. Businesses looking to invest shouldn't have to pass over our communities because the infrastructure isn't there.

• Invest in roads, bridges, and transportation corridors. Our economy depends on moving timber, agricultural products, manufactured goods, and people safely and efficiently.

• Expand high-speed internet in rural communities. Broadband isn't a luxury. It's essential for education, healthcare, small businesses, and modern jobs.

• Strengthen ports, working waterfronts, and industrial infrastructure. Southwest Washington has always been a region that builds, ships, harvests, and makes things. Our infrastructure should reflect that reality.

• Build infrastructure before communities fall behind. Growth without planning leads to overloaded roads, strained utilities, rising costs, and fewer opportunities for working families.

• Create good-paying local jobs through infrastructure projects. Investments in infrastructure should put local people to work and strengthen the communities they live in.

• Make sure rural communities get their fair share of state investment. Too often, funding flows toward larger cities while communities like ours are expected to make do with less.

Every student deserves a path to a successful future. For some, that path leads to a four-year university. For others, it leads to an apprenticeship, a certification program, a community college, military service, or directly into the workforce. Every path deserves the same respect.

• Expand apprenticeship programs and skilled trades education. Not every good-paying job requires a four-year degree, but every student should have the opportunity to learn a valuable skill.

• Strengthen career and technical education in our schools. Students should be able to graduate with real-world experience, industry certifications, and a clear path into high-demand careers.

• Build stronger partnerships between schools, unions, community colleges, and local employers. Education should prepare students for the jobs that actually exist in Southwest Washington.

• Create more opportunities for students to earn while they learn. Apprenticeships allow people to build careers without taking on decades of student debt.

• Support vocational programs that teach practical, in-demand skills. Welding, machining, timber, construction, healthcare, manufacturing, and other skilled trades should be treated as valuable career paths, not backup plans.

• Expand access to community colleges, trade schools, and workforce training programs. Education should be affordable and accessible, regardless of where someone lives.

• Improve funding for public schools while giving local communities a stronger voice. The people who live here understand the needs of their schools better than bureaucrats hundreds of miles away.

• Support teachers and classroom staff. Strong schools depend on the people who work in them every day.

• Expand school-based health and mental health services. Students learn best when their physical and emotional needs are being met.

• Prepare students for life, not just standardized tests. Financial literacy, job skills, critical thinking, and practical education should be part of every student's experience.

Healthcare shouldn't depend on your ZIP code. People in Southwest Washington deserve access to affordable, high-quality healthcare close to home.

• Protect rural hospitals and healthcare facilities. When a hospital closes, communities don't just lose a building. They lose emergency care, maternity services, good jobs, and sometimes their only nearby access to healthcare.

• Invest in behavioral health services. Mental health care shouldn't be an afterthought. People should be able to get help before a crisis turns into a tragedy.

• Expand addiction treatment and recovery programs. Southwest Washington has been hit hard by substance use. Recovery services should help people rebuild their lives, return to work, and reconnect with their families.

• Reduce maternal mortality in rural communities. Women in rural Washington are nearly 45% more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than women in urban areas. That gap is unacceptable.

• Prevent healthcare facility closures before communities lose access to care. Once a hospital or maternity ward closes, it's incredibly difficult to bring those services back.

• Strengthen healthcare for children. Expand school-based healthcare, improve access to essential medications, and make sure children can get the care they need regardless of their family's income.

• Protect our communities from federal healthcare cuts. Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid will disproportionately affect rural communities like ours, where families depend heavily on those programs.

• Fill the gaps left by federal medicare cuts. The federal government has cut off a lot of our Medicare funding. We have to rise to the challenge of funding vital healthcare programs.

I don’t just talk about workers. I come from labor.

I will stand up for unions, protect collective bargaining, defend pensions, support apprenticeship programs, and make sure public money creates good-paying local jobs—not a race to the bottom.

If you work for a living, I’m on your side. Simple as that.

I’m a lifelong Washingtonian. I take this district seriously.

I’m not interested in online fights, insults, or harassing the people I’m supposed to represent. We’ve seen enough of that.

I believe leadership means showing up, listening, and treating people with respect—even when you don’t agree with them.

You deserve someone who focuses on the job, not someone who spends their time tearing people down.