Five fights. One promise: I work for you.

Lowering Costs, Protecting Retirement

You did everything right: worked, saved, earned your benefits. And everything still costs more: groceries, prescriptions, insurance premiums, the condo assessment. Washington argues about everything except the bills on your kitchen table. And if retirement is still 15 or 30 years away, this fight is yours too: fixing Social Security now is how it's there, in full, when you get there. Here's where my energy goes.

What I’ll fight for:

  • Protect Social Security and Medicare: no benefit cuts and no retirement-age increases for current and near-retirees, and the highest earners pay in on every dollar they earn, the way most workers already do
  • Fix Social Security without cutting it: invest a capped share of the trust fund in broad index funds, like Canada has for decades. Not privatization: no individual accounts, and no one's check rides on the market
  • Lower prescription prices: defend Medicare’s power to negotiate drug prices, keep the insulin and out-of-pocket caps, and take on the middlemen who inflate prices at the counter
  • End grocery-tax tariffs: restore open trade with Canada and Mexico; blanket tariffs are a tax families pay at the register
  • Keep health coverage affordable: extend the premium tax credits working families rely on, and force insurers to cover mental health care like the health care it is
  • Crack down on elder fraud: real enforcement against the robocalls and scams targeting seniors, and banks required to pause suspicious out-of-pattern transfers before the savings are gone
  • Deliver for veterans: funded VA care, shorter waits including mental health, a fully staffed crisis line, and a fixed claims backlog
  • Unfreeze condo financing: open federal financing pathways for necessary repairs so sound buildings and their owners aren’t locked out of the market

Fixing Insurance, Our Coast & Evacuation

Every hurricane season, this district runs the same gauntlet: insurance you can’t afford, a harbor choking on discharges, and one interstate out. I’ve spent my career on risk management for banks and airlines. This is risk management for the place we live.

What I’ll fight for:

  • Stabilize the insurance market: a federal catastrophic reinsurance backstop, long-term flood-insurance reauthorization, and faster FEMA claims when disaster hits
  • Fund the way out: federal dollars for evacuation corridors like I-75 and for hardening the local bridges over the Myakka and Peace rivers that this district depends on
  • Send the water south: full funding for Everglades restoration so Lake Okeechobee discharges stop poisoning the Caloosahatchee and our coast
  • Fight red tide with science: fully funded research and forecasting, including the work done right here at Mote, with monitoring that doesn’t stop when Washington shuts down
  • Make the Army Corps count our coast: lake-release decisions must weigh the harm to Charlotte Harbor and our economy equally with inland objectives; a dead harbor is a cost, and it counts
  • Back family farms and ranches: conservation dollars that reach family operations, local meat processing that lets ranchers sell to their neighbors, and fair contract terms for producers
  • Build reliable power the smart way: nuclear first for always-on energy; solar on rooftops and disturbed land before prime farmland; and data centers sited where the water and the grid can handle them

Defending Your Privacy in the AI Age

I’ve spent thirty years inside the systems that run banks, airlines, and the modern economy, the last decade in cybersecurity and privacy. Congress is regulating a digital world it doesn’t understand. I understand it, and I’ll put that to work for you.

What I’ll fight for:

  • A warrant before the government reads your communications: no renewal of warrantless-surveillance authority without one
  • Close the data-broker loophole: if the government can’t seize your data without a warrant, it shouldn’t be able to buy it either
  • A real federal privacy law: companies collect only what they need, you get the right to see and delete what they hold, and violations carry real consequences
  • AI rules that protect people without freezing progress: including privacy protection for what you tell a chatbot
  • Consent for training data: AI companies built their models on people’s writing, art, and professional work without asking. The rule should be simple: ask first, pay fairly, or don’t train on it
  • Grid Neutrality: a data center pays for the power it needs; your utility bill doesn’t subsidize a server farm
  • Truth in political advertising: clear disclosure when campaign ads use AI to fake events or voices, showing things that never happened, without policing ordinary speech
  • Protect critical infrastructure: baseline cybersecurity standards for the grid, water systems, hospitals, and ports, with real support for the small utilities that need it most

A Government That Answers to You

Both parties carved this state’s voters up like territory, trade stocks on committee knowledge, and haven’t passed a budget on time in years, and both think you have nowhere else to go. I’m running to be somewhere else to go.

What I’ll fight for:

  • Open party primaries to all voters: you pay for the primaries; you get to vote in them. Plus no California-style "jungle" primaries that shut independents out of November
  • Ranked choice voting for general elections: vote for who you actually believe in, and winners take office with a real majority
  • Term limits: Congress should be a tour of duty, not a career
  • Ban congressional stock trading: blind trusts or index funds: no individual trades while writing laws that move markets
  • No budget, no pay: if Congress misses its one deadline, member paychecks stop until the job is done
  • Close the revolving door: a serious multi-year cooling-off period before former members can lobby their old colleagues
  • Get dark money into the light: small-dollar public financing and disclosure rules with teeth

And a Congress that does its own job, no matter who sits in the White House:

  • Enforce the power of the purse: when Congress passes an appropriation into law, the money moves. No president of either party gets to sit on funds Congress approved
  • Take back the tariff power: a tariff is a tax; major tariff actions get an up-or-down vote in Congress or they expire
  • Sunset emergency powers: emergencies lapse automatically after about 30 days unless Congress votes to continue them

No Wars Without a Vote

The Constitution gives war powers to Congress so that sending Americans to fight requires the people's representatives to stand up and vote. For twenty years, Congress has ducked that vote while the checks kept flowing. Right now Americans are fighting and dying in a war with Iran that Congress never authorized. The House has voted twice to end it, and the war goes on, because a resolution a president can ignore is not oversight. Congress holds one power that cannot be vetoed away: the money. That ends with my vote.

What I'll fight for:

  • No sustained conflict without congressional authorization: debated, voted, on the record
  • Retire the twenty-year-old war authorizations: replace them, when genuinely needed, with narrow, mission-specific authorizations that expire
  • Objectives, exit conditions, and sunset dates in every military funding measure; no more open-ended checks
  • No blank checks for any country, ally or not: military aid gets real conditions on how American weapons are used and a real up-or-down vote, not billions buried in a bill nobody dares touch
  • Use the power of the purse: when a president ignores Congress on war, Congress stops writing the checks. That is the one power a veto cannot touch