My Policies

This District is my home. I have lived and dreamed of ways to make it better since I was a little girl growing up on my grandma’s land, but I am not alone here. These are my policy positions. The things that I want to do for my friends and neighbors, but you are my friends and neighbors. If there are issues or concerns that you care about that I haven’t listed here, please, reach out. Nobody should have to be silent.

I want to create and enforce standards of public disclosure so that the public can exercise its authority over what happens to their communities. I intend to offer research-based and community-sourced options for solutions, so that choices are easy to understand and tailored to address community needs, and to balance what is being taken from our community against what is being taken out of it.

These changes are not idealistic. We can work together to make change. Anyone that says we can't is benefiting from the status quo.

Protecting and preserving our forests and farmland from industrial projects like the STAMP Act is central to my beliefs both as a a candidate and as a citizen. Our lands are being sold to corporations that erode both our natural resources and our economic sustainability. We take that control back by creating our OWN green jobs, providing easy-to-access green tax incentives, and standing up to corporations that drain our communities of the natural resources they’re profiting from.

I support raising taxes on the wealthiest individuals and the most profitable corporations, particularly those that have benefited disproportionately from decades of tax breaks and weak enforcement, while at the same time offering property tax relief for citizens struggling to get by.

As someone who rented in the City of Buffalo for many years, I understand how crushing an unstable rent system can be. I intend to support tenant protections to keep New Yorkers housed and communities intact. Huge corporations working together to take advantage of people desperate for jobs or desperate for housing. This is unacceptable, and they have to be held accountable, as do the politicians who have been allowing it for decades.

I believe healthcare is a human right. Nobody should be terrified that a broken ankle will make them destitute, and nobody should be afraid that they will have $200,000 in medical bills if they get cancer, especially in Western New York. I support a universal system that prioritizes care over profit. I am not an accountant or an elected official, and so the finances that go into this may make universal healthcare simply unsustainable in New York State, especially given how artificially expensive the healthcare system is. That being said, we can do better. A robust public option is entirely attainable and something every representative should strive for.

Our government has been negligent in allowing for-profit companies to decide how much our utilities cost. I will push for prioritizing the community's utility/energy costs and needs by shifting the burden of infrastructure costs to energy companies profiting from corporation incentives that our communities end up paying. 

Furthermore, the overwhelming majority of power generated in Western New York is funneled out to benefit those outside of the communities that work to support and maintain that infrastructure. Local needs of local citizens need to be prioritized over the profit of external corporations.

I intend to return decision-making about our Migrant Communities to the local leaders and organizations who actually know and serve them. Federal mandates have had a disastrous effect on our farming communities while simultaneously compounding the burden on local law enforcement and it must be dealt with. The federal government has no place policing your backyard.