Candidate for Wisconsin State Senate - District 13 in 2026 Wisconsin Primary Election.
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Get StartedThe government should never interfere with a woman’s right to choose when or how to start a family and should not have authority over a woman’s reproductive healthcare. I will work to ensure Wisconsin women always have the right to choose. I will also fight for the continued presence of Planned Parenthood offices throughout Wisconsin. There were many times in my life that I didn’t have access to health insurance, and I relied on the affordable and quality care provided by Planned Parenthood. Wisconsin women must continue to have access to these services in the future. Learn more
I support fully funding our public schools and lowering property taxes. We had 7 public school referendums in the 13th district. At least one school is closing and one school district is dissolving. Several other districts with failed referendums have an uncertain future. We need our rural public schools. They are an integral part of our communities and our rural culture. Rural schools are important to our kids, parents, homeowners, school staff, and small businesses. Learn more
We must elect legislators who will work to restructure the way we fund our public schools so they can once again provide the great education that our kids deserve and attract and retain the best educators, while also lowering our property taxes. We can’t continue placing such a high tax burden on our homeowners and we can’t tax our retired people out of their homes. We can start by eliminating the school voucher program which has resulted in using taxpayer money to pay for students to go to private schools and has resulted in underfunding public schools and unaffordable property taxes. Learn more
We need to immediately get to work to put a pause on building data centers until we have strict regulations, transparency, and input from the public. We must elect legislators who will stand up to big corporations and fight to protect our rural communities, our wilderness and waterways, and our farms. We need to ensure that companies building data centers pay their fair share of taxes from the beginning and throughout the entirety of the project and pay 100% of the costs to build, maintain, and use the facilities. Learn more
We must protect our beautiful Wisconsin wilderness and lakes and rivers. Many of us choose to live in Wisconsin to enjoy the variety of outdoor activities our natural resources allow us such as fishing, hunting, and hiking. We also have many small businesses that rely on outdoor activities and tourism. Our economy and quality of life depend on us prioritizing a healthy environment. Learn more
I support capping residential electric and gas utility bills at 2% of a household’s income. We should mandate the Public Service Commission to create a program to provide relief and automatically enroll Wisconsinites . We should use data center fees to partially pay for the program. This legislation would incentivize utility companies to figure out ways to conserve energy, use renewable energy, and come up with programs to help people make older homes more energy efficient. Learn more
Wisconsin residents should not foot the bill for building new infrastructure, upgrading the electrical grid, or increasing gas, water, and electric rates. Workers hired to build data centers should be paid union wages and should be local whenever possible. We must demand transparency in the process. We should require quarterly reporting by energy utilities on data center energy consumption and prohibit nondisclosure agreements and the use of shell companies to hide the true identity of the companies making deals in our own communities. We must require data centers to be placed in a separate class of “very large customers” to ensure that their energy usage is kept separate from residential customers, farms, and small businesses to ensure those groups don’t get roped into paying for those costs. Learn more
Wisconsin residents are struggling with drinking water quality due to widespread PFAS and nitrate contamination and lead leaching into the water from old pipes. We need to create legislation to clean up our drinking water and better monitor and prevent contamination so we can all stay healthy. Learn more
I am committed to supporting our local rural hospitals that are so essential to our working and middle-class Wisconsinites both for health care and for jobs. I support enforcing caps on the price of many necessary and lifesaving medications such as insulin and asthma inhalers, hospital price transparency, and prohibiting medical debt from being sent to collections or affecting credit scores. I also support regulations to prevent small hospitals and clinics from being purchased by equity firms which ultimately drive up prices and result in poor care and customer service. Learn more
I will focus on increasing the supply of housing and bringing down prices. We must build rental housing and modest single-family homes in rural areas that are affordable for the average Wisconsin family. Rural Wisconsin residents are often forgotten when it comes to housing. Increasing supply results in more competition and less demand which will naturally bring down prices. Building new homes will also create new jobs, boost the economy, and benefit small, local businesses. Working class people and young people are often renters and we need to increase renter protections for them. Learn more
I support the bills AB 449 and SB 247 that would require local governments to allow at least one accessory dwelling unit or “granny flat” on all single or multi-family residential properties. This would be a fast and affordable way to allow people to get into a home. We must also prohibit big corporations from purchasing single-family homes. We must end price gauging by greedy landlords and stop allowing price fixing computer algorithms that jack up rental prices. We need better eviction protections for our renters during this affordability crisis. Greed and selfishness got us into this mess and it will take caring and community to get us out of it. We must protect the future and independence of our young people by allowing them the opportunity to obtain affordable housing. We cannot allow our renters to continue to be blindsided by outrageous and unnecessary rent increases overnight. Learn more
I support unions, fair wages, and repealing ACT 10 as soon as possible. I also support unemployment insurance reforms including higher weekly payments and eliminating the 1 week waiting period. We aren’t even close to keeping up with unemployment insurance rates of surrounding states. Wisconsin unemployment insurance rates are capped at 370 a week. With a median Wisconsin rent at around 1400, a worker can’t even cover rent and groceries at that rate. Minnesota has a maximum unemployment weekly payout of about 948, Michigan just passed a bill to raise their maximum weekly payout to 614, and Illinois has a maximum rate of over 700. I support raising Wisconsin unemployment insurance to a maximum of at least 600 a week. Learn more
The wealth of our state and our nation is created by our workers, not big corporations. Workers are the backbone of our society and our economy and they should be enjoying more of the profits they create. I support 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave for all workers in Wisconsin. This will prevent our hard-working Wisconsinites from being forced to choose between spending time with a new baby or caring for a sick family member and paying their rent or mortgage. This would also prevent an unexpected accident or serious illness from turning into a home foreclosure or eviction. Learn more
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