Priorities

As a T.I.A. PROMISE: Transparency. Integrity and Accountability… I’ll work to hear, incorporate and represent your voice and take action. I will fight for your values, your needs, and be a strong voice for your interest, Free of any Interest.

I stand for and value:

  • Creating more affordable, livable, safe and accessible housing for ALL: Renters + Homeowners + Those In Need of Housing —this requires focusing around the variety of needs, a variety of housing for a variety of situations, and incomes; Housing for all phases of life and situations; Safe housing; Housing and homeownership within reach.

  • Finding a path out of the toxic waste of PFAS, mitigating the aftereffects of F-35s and supporting green energy;

  • Building and maintaining neighborhood teams, neighborhood associations, navigators, councils and nonprofits; public servants who work day in and day out to make the city better;

  • Looking for ways to continue to support our nonprofits and neighborhood associations who are dealing with the increased need for resources beyond the CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security program) program, a federal program that we know will not last forever;

  • Closing the GAPS and reducing disparities by age, gender, economics, race, orientation, education, opportunity, access, status and class

  • Protecting democracy and the democratic process of engagement and decision making (no matter where you land on the political scale);

  • Advocating for a diversity of economic development, new business, growth and job opportunities;

  • Keeping Madison economically viable, safe and prosperous and affordable;

  • Making our lives, our schools, our neighborhood, better, safer and more livable for everyone.

We can advocate for a diversity of solutions that can and should be addressed. Issues that the data, experts and really common-sense thinking tells you will impact us all over the long run.

Our agenda can be people focused and centered around what’s best for our neighborhoods in our growing city.

Issues such as:

  • Balancing traffic, transportation and budgets; a must for the future of all of us;

  • Maintaining and sustaining the quality of city services;

  • Advocating for environmental protections, preservation, clean and renewable energy programs;

  • Incorporating food, income, household and economic security measures and deference;

  • Supporting policing in an accountable way incorporating and advocating for reforms that partner into and around crime reduction, the well-being and safe keeping of the people in the neighborhood; Weeding out what is not effective or honorable;

  • Expanding programs like CARES to deal with no-threat-to-public police calls and mental health emergencies;

  • Partnering to support our neighborhood schools and students, the future of us;

  • Reaffirming and investing in housing, business, and local economic development and employment opportunities.

Through a focused lens we can stay in the business of representing our shared community, our neighborhood and navigate the issues upon us TOGETHER. Frankly, its not my way or the highway nor have I pledged to any agenda other than hearing your voice and doing what’s best for the neighborhood and the people in it. Period.

And yes, we can do the difficult work of equity, diversity and inclusion so we can move towards equality and perhaps work together to build upon the past and create a model, a new standard of excellence. EQUALITY like FREEDOM. Something all people want.

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