Real Results.

Not More Bureaucracy.

Vermont is becoming too expensive for the people who live, work, raise families, serve, and retire here.

Property taxes keep rising. Housing remains out of reach. Energy, healthcare, insurance, and basic costs keep climbing. At the same time, government keeps growing — but the results are not matching what Vermonters are being asked to pay.

I am running for Vermont State Senate because Bennington County needs practical leadership focused on three things:

Affordability. Property Rights. Accountability.

 

Affordability

Vermonters are paying more and getting less.

Property taxes, energy, housing, healthcare, insurance, and basic costs continue to climb. Families, seniors, workers, farmers, and small businesses are being squeezed from every direction.

Vermont does not have a revenue problem. Vermont has a spending discipline problem.

We need to stop treating taxpayers like an endless funding source and start asking harder questions:

What is working?
What is not working?
What are we getting for the money?
And why does everything keep costing more?

Affordability means controlling spending, lowering pressure on property taxpayers, growing jobs, supporting small businesses, and making it easier for working Vermonters to stay here.

It also means being honest about education spending. Property taxpayers cannot wait years for promised reform while costs keep rising. We need an education system that is affordable, understandable, and focused on results for students. Families deserve a voice, students deserve opportunity, and local communities should not be pushed aside.

Energy policy must also be built around real households — the family heating their home, the senior on a fixed income, the farmer running equipment, and the small business trying to keep the lights on.

Good intentions do not pay the bills.

Healthcare is part of affordability too. Vermonters need more access, more competition, more transparency, and less red tape between patients and care.

Vermont needs practical policies that lower costs, protect consumers, and help people stay in the communities they love.

 

Property Rights

It should not be this hard to build, improve, farm, invest, or stay in Vermont.

Vermont says it wants housing, economic growth, and strong rural communities. But too often, state policy creates more delays, more uncertainty, and more barriers for the very people trying to build that future.

Property rights are not just about land.

They are about whether a family can build a home.
Whether a farmer can use their land.
Whether a small business can expand.
Whether a town can grow responsibly.
Whether the next generation can afford to stay here.

Act 181 and Vermont’s growing land-use bureaucracy are moving too many decisions away from local communities and into a slower, more complicated state system.

That hurts housing.
It hurts working lands.
It hurts small towns.
It hurts affordability.
And it hurts local control.

We need to modernize permitting, restore local decision-making, protect working lands, and remove barriers that are holding our communities back.

Vermont’s farms, forests, and rural landowners are not obstacles to conservation. They are part of the solution.

Working lands are conservation.

We can protect Vermont’s natural beauty while still allowing people to live, work, build, farm, and pass land on to the next generation.

 

Accountability

If taxpayers are paying for it, government should be able to prove it works.

Too often, Montpelier responds to problems with another study, another report, another committee, another program, or another delay.

That is not leadership.

That is process replacing results.

We need a government that is fiscally responsible, transparent, competent, and accountable to the people paying for it.

That means clear timelines.
Real budgets.
Measurable outcomes.
Honest reporting.
And the courage to stop funding things that do not work.

In education, accountability means tying spending to results, respecting families, preserving local voice, and making sure public dollars serve the public interest.

In healthcare, it means reducing red tape, increasing access, encouraging competition, and putting patients ahead of bureaucracy.

In land use, it means predictable timelines and clear rules so people are not trapped in endless permitting delays.

In the state budget, it means respecting taxpayers and measuring success by outcomes — not by how much money was spent.

Government should work for the people.

Not the other way around.

 

My Commitment

I am not running to protect the way Montpelier has always done things.

I am running to help change it.

Bennington County deserves a senator who will fight for affordability, defend property rights, respect local communities, demand accountability, and focus on results instead of more bureaucracy.

Vermont can be more affordable.

Vermont can be more practical.

Vermont can work again.

But we have to be willing to make hard choices, ask honest questions, and remember who government is supposed to serve.

Real Results. Not More Bureaucracy.