I’m a lifelong Wyomingite born right here in Rock Springs, raised in Uinta County, and settled in Sweetwater County for the past twelve years. My family’s roots have been in this soil for generations.

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I’m a working-class Wyomingite, blue collar manual labor. I’ve spent years showing up for democracy as an election judge spending nights counting your ballots, traveling to other cities to be a delegate for Wyoming Democrats, phone banking, door knocking, and calling state and local officials who answered me with copy and paste form that amounted little more then silence. I follow the news, pay my bills, and still believe the process belongs to us. I've grown tired of watching decisions made about us, I've realized the people who live the laws should help write them. I’m not a career politician, just a Wyomingite who’s tired of seeing our voices left outside the Capitol doors. I’m stepping up so working wyomingites, the ranch hands, miners, teachers, cashiers, all have a seat at the table where their futures are written. If you've juggled bills, swung a hammer, or waited tables; you’re as qualified as any lobbyist to shape Wyoming’s next chapter for the better.

The biggest and broadest issue facing Wyoming as a whole is our dependence on the boom busted revenue. If mineral prices crash, severance tax vanishes and we slash schools, healthcare, and childcare leaving a barren system for growing families and an economic environment that can't support our graduates. I’d support enacting a 5% corporate profits tax on large out of state C-corps (currently its zero). Not raising taxes on the people struggling but on large corporations that use our labor and resources and help us reduce reliance on sales tax. The goal is to modernize Wyoming’s tax code so it supports diversified, long term growth, in addition to our extraction sector. Create a Stay & Thrive package with that revenue that would target critical pillars, such as universal broadband, health care, child care, education and public services. With these vital investments and fair corporate contribution, we can build the vibrant, supportive communities necessary to keep our young people home.

Healthcare costs are suffocating because our boom bust budget leaves hospitals under funded and workers under paid. Wyoming is one of ten states still refusing a corporate income tax, so we can’t build clinics, forgive rural nurse loans, or expand Medicaid wrap around funds that keep small hospitals solvent. I’ll fight for a 5 % profits levy on large out-of-state C-corps; the healthcare slice helps fund: loan forgiveness for providers who stay in frontier towns, subsidizes telehealth so ranch families see a specialist without a 300 mile drive, and caps out of pocket costs on chronic care prescriptions. No Wyomingite should delay care to avoid debt. I drive to Salt Lake regularly, burning leave time and motel money; I want to stay home, visit a local doctor, and sleep in my own bed. With fair corporate revenue we can keep hospitals open and paychecks here instead of exporting patients and their dollars across state lines.

As a legislator I support public lands remaining in the public domain; they belong to every Wyomingite, and once they’re gone, they’re gone for good. I would fight to ensure public lands serve Wyomingites by supporting revenue sharing from recreation leases and resource extraction that goes directly to local needs and infrastructure, not just the state, so the local community can use the money where it needs it without begging Cheyenne. State and federal contracts should favor local hiring, so when the BLM needs a fence built, a Rock Springs welder gets the paycheck, not a Colorado corporation. I’ll also push to create citizen oversight boards in every county, made of the people who live there, ranchers, hunters, tribal members, hikers, with real veto power over major land use decisions; if it doesn’t work for the people who ride, hunt, ranch, or pray on that ground, it doesn’t happen.

Property tax relief sounds great until small towns can’t keep their lights on and high schools are talking about cutting sports. I won’t support blanket cuts or hikes that slam fixed income neighbors. Instead, let’s keep owner occupied rates flat, give counties a menu: modest voter-approved increases on second homes, and a 3 % vacancy tax on empty second houses and shuttered storefronts that sit idle season after season. Every dollar from those measures and from a cut of a 5 % corporate profits levy on large C-corps flows back into the community. Let the communities decide how to use the funds, save athletic programs, keep the clinic open, fix the roadways. One size never fits a state where assessed values swing from Jackson condos to small single family homes; local control plus fair corporate and vacancy contributions keeps Wyoming’s promise of low taxes without stripping the services that let communities thrive.

The Wyoming Legislature should absolutely act as a facilitator in economic development. We must diversify beyond volatile severance taxes by developing knowledge intensive sectors. Focus on digital technology, embrace energy diversification, and agricultural technology that solve problems for resource industries while building standalone capabilities supporting us through boom bust cycles. The goal isn’t moving away from extracting resources but adding industries that don’t depend on the commodity cycles. The Legislature's role should help transition Wyoming from a resource dependent economy to one that also retains graduates and competes nationally in other sectors, keeping our youth here.. When we broaden our economic base, we strengthen every community from coal towns to agricultural centers ensuring Wyoming thrives no matter what markets do elsewhere.

I value elections where ideas beat bank accounts, not the biggest wallet. Wyoming should cap campaign spending based on registered voter counts for legislative races and set firm limits for statewide offices. Require every PAC or nonprofit to disclose the real, living donors, no more shell game front groups. Provide all qualified candidates with digital ad credits and broadcast airtime so ranch hands, teachers, and miners can run without courting millionaires. Public office should go to the person who best shares our values, not the one with the richest donors. By limiting overall spending, forcing full disclosure, and giving everyday candidates an equal microphone, we ensure every voter hears every voice. That keeps elections in the hands of neighbors, not out of state special interests, and restores trust that your representative is working for you, not for the loudest checkbook.