Issues

• End taxpayer-funded abortion
• Protect life because all life is precious and valuable.

• Shall not be infringed means exactly that. Repeal all laws repugnant to the 2nd Amendment and prevent red-flag laws.
• The Maine State Constitution states in Article 1 Section 16, "Every citizen has a right to keep and bear arms and this right shall never be questioned." We must uphold and defend our Constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

• Protect and reinstate Religious, medical, and philosophical exemptions 
• Severely limit or abolish emergency powers.
• People should have access to affordable healthcare.
• MaineCare accounts for one third of the state budget, an unsustainable and unmanageable sum, and should be reformed.
• Reforms must be made to control spending and focus resources on Maine’s most vulnerable populations, including the elderly, children, and the disabled. 

• Protect Maine's natural landscape from being destroyed
• Seek energy independence
• Incorporate decommissioning planning & funding to any green energy projects
• End solar & wind subsidies
• Repeal Maine's Renewable Portfolio Energy Standard
• Remove the 100 megawatt capacity limit on hydro power, which is and has been an excellent source of green energy for years.
• Exit the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) 
• Repeal the Expedited Wind Law. 
• Do not join the Transportation & Climate Initiative, and resist future efforts to join.
• Prohibit the executive branch from entering interstate compacts without legislative approval. 

• Empower parents to make the best educational choice for their own children as education is necessary for a free society.
• End CRT and the hyper-sexualization of children
• Allow school funding to follow the student, including the option to homeschool, with the goal of never having the money leave the parents hands or local community. 
• Unnecessary educational bureaucracy should be eliminated.

• (Environmental, Social, Governance) Say no to social credit scores in the state of Maine
• Introduce legislation to protect Mainers from corporatism.

• Focus Maine’s limited welfare resources on Maine citizens and those who are most in need.
• Emphasize diversionary strategies to help those in need without promoting long-term dependency.
• Enforce work participation requirements and eliminate loopholes that promote non-compliance.
• Apply time limits to the General Assistance program

* Government in Maine has historically attempted to solve problems like poverty, food insecurity, and job loss with extremely generous social welfare programs. Legislative intentions may have been noble in the creation and structure of these programs, but it is evident that Maine’s welfare programs have promoted government dependency instead of giving struggling families the help they need to become financially independent. 

• Decrease corporate income tax and therefore increase margins and motivation for being in business
• Welfare reform to increase workforce 
• Repeal excessive regulations and unnecessary certification/licensing requirements

*According to the American Legislative Exchange Council Center for State Fiscal Reform, Maine is currently ranked 44th in the nation in terms of its “economic outlook.” A 2022 analysis conducted by WalletHub ranked Maine’s economy 44th as well, with the state coming in at 36th for “economic activity,” 34th for “economic health,” and 42nd in terms of “innovation potential.” 

*U.S. News and World Report has ranked Maine as one of the least business-friendly states in the country. The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council released an analysis of state policy environments in 2019 and found that Maine had created one of the top 10 most unfriendly business climates in the nation. 

• Maine’s governor is among the most powerful in the country during emergency situations. Here, the governor is explicitly permitted to suspend statutes or regulations during an emergency, giving them broad authority to govern the state in an autocratic fashion. Interestingly, eight states, including Vermont and Massachusetts, provide no authority to the governor to alter the enforcement of statutes or regulations during an emergency.
• No one disputes that a governor should have latitude during an emergency to respond quickly to an evolving threat to the citizens of that state. However, it is unwise and unnecessary to grant such absolute power to the state’s chief executive, and after a certain amount of time, there should be a check on the authority of the governor by the elected legislature
• No single human being should ever have that much power, granted to themselves in perpetuity, for as long as they decide. A governor should have the power to respond effectively to a crisis or an emergency, but there needs to be limits and oversight on that authority.
   

• Repeal Ranked Choice Voting (RCV)
• Implement Voter ID system with paper ballots
• Ban use of absentee ballots & early voting (excluding military and legitimate needs)
• Declare Election Day a holiday
• Ban Electronic Election Equipment
• Institute heavy prison sentences for those who commit election fraud
• Ban ballot harvesting

• Repealing/Reducing taxation is for the common good of those in District 37 to increase earnings and jump-start the local economy
• Death by 1,000 taxes is NOT for the common good
• Repeal Personal Income Tax
• Reduce Sales Tax
• Eliminate Estate Tax
• Repeal the Maine Clean Elections Act (MCEA)

• When wages rise artificially due to an increase in the minimum wage, payroll costs on businesses increase without compensation for growth in productivity or sales. With a majority of businesses operating on razor thin profit margins, Maine’s minimum wage increase gives many small businesses no choice but to reduce their operations, raise prices, lay off workers, transition to automation, or relocate to another state.
• When minimum wage hikes drive businesses to reduce costs, the first victims are low-wage, low-skill workers—the same workers that minimum wage laws are intended to support.

• Support enactment of a State Right to Work* law by the Maine State Legislature & Oppose legislation designed to circumvent the U.S. Supreme Court's Janus Decision

*Under Right to Work laws, employees are free to join a union, but they cannot be fired for failing to do so.

*If workers are actually benefitting from the unions that represent them, unions should not be worried about declines in membership as a result of enacting right to work legislation

*A 2014 report by the Competitive Enterprise Institute found that “the compelling preponderance of evidence suggests there is a substantial, significant, and positive relationship between economic growth in a state and the presence of a right to work law."

•  Sunset provisions are clauses embedded in legislation that cause regulatory boards and agencies to automatically expire after a given length of time unless positive action is taken to extend their lifespan, thereby forcing them to undergo review on a regular basis. 
•  It has been demonstrated that excessive regulations have a negative impact on both entrepreneurship and employment growth 
• According to a report by the Mercatus Center of George Mason University, excessive regulations are associated with increased rates of poverty and greater income inequality. In fact, it was estimated that, between 1997 and 2017, Maine’s regulatory burden caused 21,340 people to fall below the poverty line and increased income inequality by 3.55%. 
• A 2016 study, which undertook an extensive analysis of regulatory management procedures in all 50 states, found that sunset provisions are “the single most important policy” when it comes to reducing a state’s overall regulatory burden. The authors explain that “by making regulations fight to stay in place, sunset provisions force a reevaluation of all regulations and tend to lessen the degree of regulation within a state."

• Reduce Property Taxes/ Eliminate Revenue Sharing Program
• If not eliminated, reform the revenue sharing formula to reward municipalities for lowering property taxes, instead of incentivizing excessive spending

*Maine’s municipal revenue sharing program transfers a small percentage of tax collections from major broad-based taxes—including the income tax and sales tax—directly to municipalities in an effort to alleviate local property tax burdens and supplement municipal budgets.

*Currently, revenue sharing is designed to distribute a higher percentage of funds to municipalities with very high tax burdens. Although the intent of the provision was clearly to allow high-tax cities and towns to reduce their property tax rates by providing state aid, municipalities have taken advantage of this feature of the program to raise local taxes and attract additional state funds.