Strong Communities

Our community binds us together, from our network of friends and family to our ties as state citizens who share resources and work together across Kentucky. Community turns a row of homes into neighborhoods, and neighborhoods into unified towns and cities. We can and must work to strengthen our communities in the Commonwealth. Strong communities are ones where no one worries about choosing between rent and seeing their doctor. Strong communities don’t turn away the tired, the poor, the homeless that come to them searching for a better life in peace. Strong communities stamp out discrimination and demand professional and equal treatment under the law for all its members.

I will help build strong communities, here in Louisville and throughout Kentucky.

As a State Representative I will fight for:

• Access to affordable healthcare through Medicaid expansion and ultimately state participation in a national universal, single-payer health program: Medicare for All. 

•  In addition to fighting for reproductive freedom, and against conversion therapy and so-called bathroom bills and other directly discriminatory legislation, I will push for a statewide Fairness Law and other protections for the LGBTQ+ communities. 

• An end to noncriminal deportation, reserving deportation for only the most violent acts rather than as a consequence for simply being undocumented, as well as an end to cooperation with punative federal agencies such as ICE.

• Not just decriminalization but legalization, regulation, and taxation of cannabis as a priority for public health & public funds, and as a recognition of the racial disparities in targeting and enforcement of cannabis prohibition.

• Increased professionalization standards for the Kentucky State Police, the highest law enforcement agency of the Commonwealth, bringing an end to under-regulated private training, an increase in education and experience requirements, and a requirement that body and vehicle cameras are always on and widely subject to open records requests.