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The Political Platform: Part I
P1: Housing, Land, & Infrastructure (The Coastal Crisis)
Affordable Housing & Homelessness Mitigation: Unified Local Solutions
Every resident in our community deserves to live with dignity, security, and peace of mind (1). True public service means recognizing that affordable housing measures and homelessness deterrents must run in lockstep (2).We see those in need on our streets, yet the political establishment’s only response has been the erasure of unhoused individuals (2). Homelessness in our state is still misunderstood by most, and I am ready to inform others through the lens of my own direct experience (2). Living in a manufactured housing community and surviving a rapid, 13-day eviction notice means I know exactly how close the average Delawarean is to the financial edge (2). No one should feel as if they are alone in their fight to simply possess life, liberty, and happiness (2).
- Balancing the Local Market: A significant portion of property ownership in Representative District 14 belongs to out-of-state investors and second-home owners (1). This concentration of out-of-state capital drives up property values, distorts the local market, and directly forces everyday working families into housing insecurity (2).
- True Accessibility Over Hidden Rules: For our disabled neighbors and fixed-income families, local housing security requires targeted, transparent rules, not broad political talking points (2). I am championing the Housing Fund Transparency Act to outlaw the unwritten, arbitrary administrative hurdles—such as hidden bank account asset limits—that state gatekeepers use to deny families timely emergency relief (2).
- Year-Round Supportive Sanctuaries: Sussex County cannot continue relying on seasonal, temporary church mats as a substitute for actual state legislative policy (1). I am actively fighting to establish a permanent, year-round supportive housing facility in Sussex County (2). We must duplicate the successes of northern infrastructure by building a location that combines immediate, secure shelter with real, localized wraparound case management (2).
- Direct Care for Direct Needs: I am advocating for strict legislation that requires state housing funds to be spent directly on tangible citizen resources—security deposits, rental relief, and medical case integration—before a single dime is allocated to hiring more administrative bureaucrats (3). We must establish a cohesive, synchronized network between local medical providers, case managers, and social service representatives to eliminate the systemic redundancies that let vulnerable people fall through the cracks (3).
The Diamond State of Mind: Preserving Farmland & Local Wealth
Career politicians in Dover treat Sussex County like a blank check for out-of-state corporate developers. They look at our historic agricultural acreage and see nothing but strip malls, unmanageable traffic congestion, and cookie-cutter complexes that destroy our coastal quality of life. My Diamond State of Mind platform draws a line in the sand: we must protect our rural heritage and empower local families over big-box contractor monopolies.
Standing with the Route 24 Alliance Against Corporate Sprawl
- Defending Local Corridors: I stand completely aligned with grassroots groups like the Route 24 Alliance who are fighting the reckless, short-sighted rezoning of our local farms. [1, 2]
- Stopping Traffic Gridlock: Over-development
threatens public safety, risks driving up traffic by thousands of trips per day, and ignores the slow 2032 timeline for necessary state highway widening. [1, 2] - Halting Aggressive Rezonings: I will fight to close the loopholes that allow Sussex County Council to greenlight mega-developments against the explicit wishes of the community. Farmland should remain in the hands of the people who cultivate it, not out-of-state corporate interests looking to flip our backyard for a quick buck. [1]
Reclaiming Our Environment: Ending Roadside Trash & Underground Pollution
- Clearing Roadside Blight: Tourism and corporate over-development have brought a wave of neglect to our roadways. I am deeply passionate about ending the chronic trash and litter that blights our highway corridors across Delaware and throughout our community in RD14 and SD14. Our beautiful coastal region should not look like a dumping ground for corporate construction waste or transient traffic.
- Stopping Underground Pollution: True preservation goes deeper than what we see on the surface. Rapid, unchecked commercial construction threatens our shallow water tables. I am fighting for strict environmental oversight to stop toxic runoff and underground pollution from poisoning our local aquifers and drinking water.
- Accountability for Polluters: I will advocate for legislation that heavily penalizes commercial contractors who dump waste or neglect the environmental impact of their construction sites on our local ecosystems.
Micro-Farming & Reclaiming the Cannabis Revenue Stream
- Keeping Cash Local: Delaware’s adult-use cannabis market is expanding rapidly, with analysts projecting it could eventually yield over $40 million in annual state tax revenue. But right now, career politicians are structured to let multi-state corporate operators dominate the market while everyday Delawareans are locked out. [1]
- Prioritizing Sussex Smallholder Licenses: I am fighting to protect our agricultural economy by fast-tracking micro-business and craft cultivation licenses exclusively for local, independent Delaware farmers. [1]
- Funding Public Infrastructure Directly: Revenue generated from Sussex County cannabis cultivation should not vanish into Dover's general administrative payroll fund. I will pioneer legislation to mandate that a fixed percentage of local cannabis sales tax directly funds Sussex County open-space preservation, rural infrastructure, and local emergency services.
Systemic Delays & Infrastructure Malpractice: Putting Residents First
Delaware’s infrastructure system is completely broken, and career politicians are looking the other way. State agencies and county planners are quick to approve permits for out-of-state mega-contractors, yet basic safety upgrades and neighborhood health projects face endless, bureaucratic delays. We must end the administrative gridlock that treats resident safety and neighborhood utilities like low-priority chores. [1]
The Human Cost of Delays: Remembering My Loved One's Near-Fatal Accident on Holland Glade Road
- Confronting Roadway Neglect: The intersection at Route 1 and Holland Glade Road was explicitly cited for vital construction. Yet, state and contractor delays dragged the project out for months under a maze of cones and shifting lanes. [1, 2]
- Tragedy Due to Bureaucracy: While state gatekeepers missed their own timelines, pedestrians and drivers are travelling unsafely along this corridor and others.
- Demanding Real Accountability: I will fight for legislation that creates greater contractor accountability for missed safety infrastructure deadlines and forces DelDOT to implement immediate, temporary pedestrian protections the second a construction site falls behind schedule. [1, 2, 3]
Accelerating the County Sewer Conversion Guarantee
- Ending Environmental Dual Standards: Across Sussex County, an ongoing project aims to convert older neighborhoods from failing septic tanks onto the Sussex County Unified Sanitary Sewer District. Yet, working-class communities watch these conversions stall for years while brand-new, corporate-built luxury developments get fast-tracked hookups overnight. [1, 2, 3]
- Stopping Underground Pollution: Leaving our established local neighborhoods stranded on aging systems risks local water quality and strains family finances with sudden repair costs. [1]
- Mandating Funding Equity: I am advocating for a structural baseline law: The Infrastructure Equity Act. This will mandate that state and county matching funds prioritize completing existing neighborhood sewer conversions before public utility assets are used to subsidize out-of-state corporate construction. [1]
The Political Platform: Part II
P2: Human Rights & Community Care (The People Are First)
Removing Barriers: Mental Health & Judicial Equity
The courtroom should be a sanctuary for constitutional and civil rights, not an administrative trap that penalizes human vulnerability. True equity means ensuring that residents managing mental health conditions, physical disabilities, and severe financial limitations are never stripped of their rights simply because they cannot navigate a hostile, complex legal bureaucracy.
Aligning Community Resources Over Legal Penalties
- Coordinated Crisis Support: We must stop using the judiciary to punish individuals experiencing mental health crises (1).
- Synchronized Medical Response: I am fighting to establish an integrated network where community specialists, mental health counselors, and housing advocates intercept individuals before they enter the court cycle (1).
- Protecting Vulnerable Residents: No Delawarean should lose their housing or liberty because a mental health condition prevented them from meeting a rigid administrative deadline (1).
Dismantling Physical and Financial Court Barriers
- Mandatory Remote Options: Physical and financial limitations should never equal a loss of civil rights (2).
- Eliminating Failure-to-Appear Traps: I am championing legislation to mandate free, reliable remote video access for all civil and housing court proceedings (2).
- Ending Economic Penalties: Working families should not have to choose between losing a day's wages for court parking and transit, or defaulting on an eviction hearing (2).
- Full ADA Compliance: We will enforce strict, proactive accommodation protocols so that physical limitations never bar a resident from standing before a judge (3).
Proactive ADA Title II Enforcement in the Judiciary
- Enforcing Legal Protections: Delaware courts operate with unchecked administrative authority that routinely overlooks fundamental fair housing and accessibility protections (3).
- Weaponizing Anti-Bias Law: I will deploy my extensive background in anti-bias and ADA Title II law to force absolute transparency within our judicial infrastructure (3).
- Tracking Judicial Decisions: We will establish a public, transparent tracking system for housing court decisions to expose institutional bias (3).
- Guaranteed Civil Representation: No state gatekeeper or rapid eviction timeline will ever again bypass a thorough, lawful review of a citizen's civil rights (3).
Healing and Learning: Empowering Veterans, Youth, and Families Through Arts & Agriculture
Delaware’s educational and veteran support systems operate in bureaucratic silos. We treat trauma, vocational training, and youth education as separate line items, completely missing the holistic solutions that heal people. I am fighting for a unified approach that uses arts and agriculture to educate our children, rehabilitate our vulnerable populations, and provide transition paths for our veteran community.
Veterans and Service Members: Healing and Career Transition
- Therapeutic Agricultural Programs: Our returning service members and veterans face immense barriers to mental health management and community reintegration. I will champion state funding for therapeutic agriscience programs that pair veterans with local Sussex County farms. This provides eco-therapy alongside vocational skills in the rapidly growing sustainable agriculture and craft crop sectors (1).
- Veterans in the Arts Initiative: Trauma often resists traditional clinical frameworks. We will establish state-level grants to bring therapeutic arts, creative writing, and digital media production directly to veteran networks, helping our heroes process their experiences while building highly marketable skills in the creative economy (2).
- Accelerated Agricultural Workforce Pathways: We will mandate fast-tracked state licensing and micro-grants for veterans aiming to launch local, independent agriscience businesses, keeping Delaware wealth in veteran hands (1).
Inclusive Arts & Agriculture Education for Every Child
- Expanding Agriscience in K-12: Every child in Delaware deserves hands-on access to agricultural education. I am fighting to expand funding for school greenhouse networks and community-based youth gardens, instilling nutritional literacy, technical skill, and an early understanding of our state’s agricultural heritage (3).
- Arts as an Equalizer: Artistic expression must not be locked behind a socioeconomic paywall. I am advocating for direct educational funding equity to guarantee that children in fixed-income or vulnerable school districts have equal access to robust music, theater, visual arts, and digital design curricula (4).
Creative and Agriscience Pipelines for Unheard Populations
- Reintegration for Justice-Impacted and Foster Youth: We must build a functional bridge for youth aging out of foster care, individuals seeking family reunification, and those re-entering society from the justice system (5).
- Targeted Workforce Re-Entry: This platform establishes specialized workforce pathways where survivors of domestic abuse, human trafficking, and aging-out foster youth can access stable apprenticeships in community arts centers, local theater groups, and sustainable local farms (5).
- A Place to Heal and Work: By pairing therapeutic creative outlets with immediate workforce integration, we provide a dignified path out of trauma and directly into a stable, self-sufficient career (5).
Protecting Delaware's Classrooms and Healthcare Infrastructure
The Problem: Immigration enforcement is a federal duty, but Washington's policy failures have created an expensive, unfunded mandate for small states. Federal law legally requires states to provide K-12 public education and emergency medical stabilization to all residents, regardless of legal status. For a small state like Delaware, with a population of just over one million, the local tax base must absorb these sudden infrastructure demands far more acutely than larger states.
The Local Impact on Education and Health
- Strained Classrooms: Local property taxes and state education funds are stretched to accommodate rapid student enrollment shifts. This places an immediate financial burden on District 14 schools, which must fund specialized English Language Learner (ELL) resources, hire additional staff, and expand classroom capacity without adequate federal aid.
- Rising Healthcare Costs: Under federal law, emergency rooms must stabilize any patient who walks through the door. Because undocumented immigrants do not qualify for standard Medicaid, Delaware hospitals absorb millions in uncompensated care. To stay solvent, healthcare networks pass these costs onto everyday families through higher insurance premiums and costlier medical bills.
My Plan as Your State Representative - Secure Federal Reimbursement: I will introduce legislation demanding that Delaware’s congressional delegation secure direct federal impact-aid grants to fully reimburse our local school districts and hospitals for federally mandated costs.
- Prioritize Local Classroom Funding: I will fight to protect state education budgets, ensuring that your local tax dollars are used to lower class sizes, support teachers, and improve educational outcomes right here in our community.
- Advocate for Transparent Hospital Cost Auditing: I will push for public reporting on the exact amount of uncompensated care absorbed by Delaware hospitals, ensuring we have the clear data needed to hold Washington financially accountable.
Real Institutional Reform & Human Rights
Changing the Focus of Law Enforcement
- Policing poverty does not solve homelessness. Using law enforcement resources to displace vulnerable communities traps residents in endless cycles of debt, loss of identification documents, and criminal records—all while costing taxpayers money without fixing root causes. [1, 2, 3]
- I am committed to addressing systemic accountability, including specific concerns regarding local law enforcement like Troop 7. Police resources must be redirected toward public safety, while human rights and social services are handled by community specialists and housing advocates. [1]
Fair Housing Waiting Lists: Stopping Selective Allocation
- True transparency means everyone plays by the same rules. In Wilmington, the immediate allocation of housing for individuals from the Christina Park tent encampment bypassed everyday families who have spent over a year stuck on centralized state waiting lists. [1, 2, 3]
- I will fight for strict oversight of the Delaware State Housing Authority and local housing networks. Emergency site clearing cannot push down or delay families—especially our disabled neighbors—who are waiting for scarce, ADA-compliant accessible housing units. [1, 2, 3]
True Judicial Accountability & Fair Housing Protection
- Delaware's legal institutions are designed to safeguard civil and constitutional rights, but too often, everyday citizens face institutional bias. Having survived a rapid, 13-day eviction notice that ignored fair housing protections, I know exactly how vulnerable families are when court systems operate with unchecked administrative authority.
- I am running to create transparent, public tracking of housing court decisions and to expand localized legal support so that no Delawarean is stripped of their home without a fair, thorough review of their civil and ADA protections. [1]
Solidarity and Inclusivity
- I stand completely aligned with community groups like Indivisible in actively supporting immigration rights and advocating for the protection of our diverse multicultural neighbors. Our campaign logo isn't a hollow aesthetic—the flags of our Haitian, Mexican, Jamaican, Irish, and Italian residents represent a shared commitment to building a Delaware that honors civil rights for every person, regardless of origin or socioeconomic status.