Platform
Where I Stand
I'm running to protect people now, build opportunity next, and restore trust through delivery. Defending social safety nets is non-negotiable families need stability before they can thrive. The six pillars below are how I will fight for District 9 in Lansing.
Working families are getting squeezed from every direction. The State House controls annual appropriations, consumer protections, and rate oversight that's where the fight for affordability happens.
- ▸Stabilize housing costs and strengthen tenant protections against predatory increases
- ▸Oppose unjustified utility rate hikes from DTE and Consumers Energy
- ▸Expand childcare access and move Michigan toward universal pre-K
- ▸Take on Michigan's auto insurance costs among the highest in the nation
- ▸Defend SNAP, Medicaid, and the full social safety net in every state budget
- ▸Use the appropriations process to drive down everyday costs groceries, gas, transportation
Why it matters: Affordability is a right-now issue, not a long-term theory. You cannot build a future for District 9 on instability.
Every child in District 9 deserves a well-funded public school in their neighborhood. State funding decisions, K–12 policy, and workforce pipelines all run through Lansing.
- ▸Fully fund Detroit Public Schools and raise teacher pay
- ▸Expand tuition-free community college, trade programs, and credential pathways
- ▸Build workforce pipelines connecting Detroit youth to emerging industries here at home
- ▸Invest in digital and financial literacy starting in middle school
- ▸Fund grassroots youth-serving organizations and mentorship programs
- ▸Retain DPS graduates and create real paths home after college
Why it matters: Low literacy rates and limited opportunity are not reflections of our kids they are reflections of decades of underinvestment. We change that with sustained state funding.
Detroit has been left behind in too many recovery cycles. Lansing controls business support, workforce programs, and the rules that determine whether economic development reaches the neighborhood level.
- ▸Protect the right to organize and support working families through labor policy
- ▸Expand state support for small and mid-sized Detroit businesses, including minority- and women-owned firms
- ▸Tie economic development incentives to real community benefit
- ▸Bridge philanthropy and corporate investment into neighborhoods without extraction
- ▸Push for high-wage jobs with clear advancement pathways
Why it matters: A growing economy that does not reach working Detroiters is not real growth. We measure success by what families take home.
District 9 carries a disproportionate share of Michigan's pollution burden. Environmental health is family health and the State has direct authority over rate hikes, drinking water standards, air quality enforcement, and environmental justice protections.
- ▸Hold DTE and Consumers Energy accountable on rate hikes and political spending
- ▸Enforce clean air standards in Detroit's most polluted ZIP codes
- ▸Guarantee safe, affordable drinking water and end water shutoffs for nonpayment
- ▸Protect the Great Lakes and continue the fight to shut down Line 5
- ▸Expand community-based mental health services and preventative care access
- ▸Address toxins in food, housing, and consumer products
- ▸Treat the clean-energy transition as a jobs program good-paying union work in Michigan
Why it matters: Families in District 9 should not pay higher utility bills, breathe dirtier air, and drink less safe water than the rest of the state. That ends in Lansing.
Public safety and rehabilitation go together. The State controls MDOC, sentencing policy, and the programs that determine whether returning citizens can rebuild their lives.
- ▸Build real employment and housing pathways for returning citizens
- ▸Support families impacted by incarceration especially children
- ▸Increase MDOC accountability on conditions, programming, and outcomes
- ▸Invest in rehabilitation and reentry services alongside public safety
- ▸Address the school-to-prison pipeline with wrap-around services for youth
Why it matters: Strong public safety and a second-chance system are not in tension. Both make our communities safer.
Low turnout in Detroit is a delivery failure, not voter apathy. When state government shows up in people's lives, trust and participation follow.
- ▸Defend voting rights and ballot access at the state level
- ▸Strengthen campaign finance rules limit utility and corporate political spending in Michigan
- ▸Invest in civic infrastructure and youth voter engagement
- ▸Make state government visible and responsive in District 9 neighborhoods
- ▸Restore trust through delivery results before rhetoric
Why it matters: Democracy is renewed when government delivers. Turnout follows trust, and trust follows results.
This is the work.
If this is the District 9 you want, chip in, sign up, or volunteer and let's go win this.