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Kentuckians need policies that will:
Help them put food on the table
Keep money in their pocket
Ensure everyone has access to quality healthcare
Protect their privacy from government overreach
Strengthen public education
Keep Kentucky’s air, water and land clean
Protecting Land rights
No politician should ever make you feel like a nuisance for standing up for your home, your property, and your rights. Deanna Gordon claims to champion individual rights, personal liberty, and private property. Yet when those principles are put to the test, those promises ring hollow.
I had the opportunity to meet the farmer at the center of this controversy and visit his land. He shared with me the nightmare he and his family have endured, including the deeply troubling response he received from Deanna Gordon, an elected official whose responsibility is to represent his interests and give him a voice in the halls of power.
Economic development should never come at the expense of private property rights. My latest op-ed in The Edge examines what happens when the politicians who claim to defend individual liberty are asked to actually stand up for it.
Your leaders should love liberty, even when it’s inconvenient.
Read my op-ed in The Edge to learn more about my stance on land rights and eminent domain in Kentucky.
AI DATA CENTERS
Data centers are popping up all over the state, and this isn't by accident.
The Republican-led legislature has made Kentucky an attractive location for out-of-state companies to build data centers. This is due to tax breaks and lax regulations created specifically with these companies in mind for the sake of “economic development”. Meanwhile, Kentuckians are facing higher utility bills due to the great energy and water consumption from these facilities. Not to mention the destruction of Kentuckys greatest assets — our beauty and natural resources.
Deanna Gordon and Jared Carpenter are multi-millionaires who don't know what it's like to worry about paying the electric bill, yet they've allowed corporations to go unchecked and take advantage of Kentuckians.
Vote for me this November and I will fight to protect Kentuckys’ natural resources, its beauty, and of course, your pocketbook from data centers.
Supporting our First responders
Our EMTs and paramedics are an essential part of Kentucky’s healthcare and public safety infrastructure. It’s time we treat them that way.
Protecting medicaid for our most vulnerable kentuckians— And our economy
Investing in access to care has ripple effects. Not only on our communities' health, but also on our local economy.
Before the passage of the Affordable Care Act, thousands of Americans faced barriers to employment because they couldn't afford healthcare. Families struggled under the weight of medical debt, while hospitals and healthcare providers absorbed the costs of uncompensated care.
While our healthcare system is far from perfect, Medicaid expansion was a step in the right direction.
Today, Medicaid faces threats at both the state and federal levels, and we cannot afford to move backward.
This November, let's vote to protect our progress and take another step forward, not backward.
Protecting Waiver Access
dozens of Kentuckians traveled to Frankfort to urge state leaders to protect Kentucky's 1915(c) Medicaid waiver programs. These waivers allow children and adults with disabilities or complex medical needs to receive skilled care in their homes and communities rather than being forced into hospitals, nursing homes, or other institutional settings away from their families.
The need for these services continues to grow. As of this year, nearly 19,000 Kentuckians are on waiting lists for Medicaid waiver services, and some families face waits of up to 10 years before receiving assistance.
Kentucky has the third-highest disability rate in the nation. Approximately 394,000 Kentuckians have a developmental disability, yet there are only 34,566 funded slots across the state's three primary developmental disability waiver programs.
Despite these growing needs, Kentucky Republicans passed House Bill 2 this year, which includes significant changes to the state's Medicaid program.
Among them, my opponent Deanna Gordon voted in favor of HB 2, the bill that would land this great blow to the families already struggling. Kentucky families need an ally and an advocate.
That’s why I’m asking for your vote this November, to protect Kentucky's most vulnerable, and fight for families.
defending kentucky workers rights
I come from a long line of coal miners from Eastern Kentucky, where generations of working families have understood the power of standing together. Growing up, I learned that many of the protections workers have today were won because ordinary people joined together and demanded a better deal for themselves and their families. That belief in strength in numbers is why I support repealing Kentucky’s right-to-work law.
Right-to-work laws have been proven to lower wages, worsen working conditions, and lead to employer discrimination
Send me to Frankfort this November, and I will work to repeal “right-to-work” and restore power to Kentucky’s unions
Defending Kentuckians from mass surveillance
Flock cameras are automated license plate readers (ALPRs) that capture a vehicle's license plate, make, model, color, and the time and location where it was seen. They’re supposed to help recover stolen vehicles and solve crimes. While the purpose may be noble, this technology enables the routine collection of location data on millions of drivers who are not suspected of any wrongdoing. Civil liberties organizations have already raised concerns that this information can be stored in cloud databases, shared across thousands of law enforcement agencies, and used to reconstruct a person's travel patterns without a warrant. These concerns have led to lawsuits, legislative proposals, and the termination or suspension of Flock camera programs in several states over questions of privacy, transparency, data sharing, and government oversight. Make me your Representative and I’ll make sure Kentucky follows suit.