To work for the common good, we must focus on the economic health of our families. There is a deep disconnect between Wall Street’s record profits and the rising cost of groceries, healthcare, childcare, and insurance on Main Street.

My priority will be to find fiscally responsible, bottom-up solutions that help our local businesses and working families, not just the well-connected. This means finding common-sense ways to support our local small businesses, tackling the childcare crisis, and working with other legislators to find solutions to reduce the inflationary pressures that make raising a family unaffordable for many Arkansans.

Our government must be a transparent stewards of your tax dollars. This means fighting for an open government, free from the backroom deals and political favors that have failed our community.

I am a teacher, a public servant, not a rubber stamp for a party agenda. As your representative, I will base my decisions on data, expert testimony, and public feedback. There is no room for wasteful, frivolous spending.

This means I will be a legislator who actually reads the bills, questions massive spending on projects, and demands accountability for unfair tax policies. I will always fight to protect our citizen petition and FOIA laws—the people’s most important tools for holding their government accountable.

As a public school teacher, I know a strong education system is the single most important key to our economic future. Good education leads to better jobs, which leads to a more prosperous community for all of us.

But I also know public schools are not the best option for every child. My Common Good platform is not about public vs. private schools. They have the same goals of educating our children, but do so through different strategies. It is in our shared interest that all students at all schools receive the best education possible. This shouldn’t be a political issue.

We must fully fund our local public schools to meet the needs of their students. At the same time, any public funds spent on education—including the new EFA / voucher program—must be spent responsibly and transparently. I will demand strong oversight to ensure our tax dollars are actually being used for education, not for the questionable purchases that have raised concerns from all sides.

Finally, we must invest in proven, high-ROI solutions like affordable childcare and pre-K education. These programs are not wasteful spending; they are the most effective way to close achievement gaps and build a successful workforce from day one.

My personal position has remained the same: I do not support either extreme. I do not support abortion for any reason and I do not support a total ban.

My position has always been the moderate position supported by the majority of Arkansans, which is limited access for the tragic and agonizing cases of rape, incest, when the life or health of the mother is at risk, and in rare medical cases where an unborn child cannot survive beyond birth.

But I also believe this is a litmus test designed to divide us in an unwinnable culture war.

The endless political fight over this is a fight over a symptom, not the root cause of the problem. My Common Good priority is to focus on the cure. No one is pro-abortion; they are pro-choice when faced with difficult situations.

My priority will be to champion solutions that all of us can support:

• Making the adoption process in Arkansas less burdensome and more affordable.
• Ensuring all women have access to high-quality, affordable maternal healthcare.
• Tackling the childcare crisis so that having a child is not an impossible economic choice.
• Improving access to affordable birth control and comprehensive sex education.
• Supporting accountability for absentee fathers and sexual predators.

We need to stop using this issue as a weapon and start working together to solve the real, human problems that cause this crisis in the first place.

This is a personal issue for my family. My wife is a naturalized citizen from the Philippines, and I fully support the legal immigration process that has so enriched our nation.

I believe we can and must do two things at once:

1. Be Secure: We are a nation of laws. We must secure our border, know who is coming in, and have an orderly system that removes actual dangerous criminals.
2. Be Pragmatic: As a state representative, it will be my job is to focus on the reality in our community. We have neighbors here who are contributing to our local Main Street economy and paying taxes. We have businesses that rely on their labor. My position means rejecting policies that target peaceful people or violate constitutional rights.

I reject the inhumane treatment of any person. We can, and must, be a country that is both secure and just. And I will demand that we treat all people with dignity.

We must treat our neighbors like neighbors. Our LGBT+ neighbors want the same things we all do: to feel safe, to feel loved, and to feel like they belong. You do not have to agree with someone’s lifestyle to treat them with dignity and respect.

My faith teaches me to love, not to condemn. I will not support divisive, top-down legislation that attacks our neighbors, wastes our tax dollars on lawsuits, and hurts our state’s economy.

My focus is on the kitchen table issues that unite us, not the us vs. them culture war issues that tear us apart and turns neighbors into enemies.

As a computer science teacher, I see the future of our economy every single day. The rise of Artificial Intelligence isn’t a maybe or a someday problem—it’s here, and it’s already changing our workforce. We can’t afford to do too little, too late on this.

I can’t help but be left with questions that need to be studied and answers found, soon!

How do we prepare Arkansas for the Age of Artificial Intelligence?

Huge data centers for AI will require huge amounts of electricity and water to operate, but at what cost to utility prices and the environment?

Huge numbers of Arkansas workers will be displaced as automation and AI replace human labor. Who is responsible for retraining these workers, the company that replaces them, the government? AI will create some new jobs, but will it be enough to offset the jobs lost?

We have a choice. We can either do nothing and let our workers be displaced, or we can lead. I will fight to make Arkansas a leader in workforce preparedness by:

Studying the Tax Code: Our current system taxes human labor but gives a free pass to automation. This incentivizes businesses to replace labor with automation. I will lead a data-driven, bipartisan study to find solutions that incentivize businesses to invest in their people, not just their machines. It may require adjusting the tax code to start taxing automation in a similar way as we currently tax labor.

Investing in our People: We must fund modern, accessible retraining and re-education programs at our public schools and technical colleges. Arkansas is already amongst the poorest states in the countries. We can lead the way in preparing our workforce for the future by investing in our people. The success of such an initiative will need to be an alliance between public and private entities.

Modernizing Education: As a teacher, I know we must bring our classrooms into the 21st century. My priority is to ensure our education system truly prepares our students for the actual jobs of the future, not just the jobs of the past. Our current system is too slow to adjusting to the real demands of the modern workforce.

Arkansas consistently has one of the lowest voter turnout rates in the entire nation.

This isn’t because people don’t care. It’s because they feel disenfranchised. They feel their voices aren’t heard and no politician really tries to represent them and their needs. It’s the logical result of a top-down political system that alienates voters by presenting a false dichotomy of polar opposites on the political spectrum and leaves no room for a middle ground. It’s the symptom of a “culture war” that has taught us to see our neighbors as enemies to be defeated, not as people to be heard.

My campaign is a direct challenge to this. My belief is we heal this division from the bottom-up by intentionally meeting with the people who feel their voices don’t matter and to invite them to have a seat at the table.

That is why my first and most important commitment is the Listening Tour. It’s not a gimmick; it’s the cure. We can only restore faith in our democracy when people feel they are being truly heard.

As your representative, I will fight to:

End the “Culture War”: Focusing on issues that support the common good is the antidote to apathy. When we stop fighting and start focusing on kitchen table solutions that actually help families, people will have a reason to believe in their government again.

Protect Citizen-Led Democracy: I will always vote to protect and restore the rights of our citizens to ballot access and FOIA laws. These are the people’s most important tools for holding government accountable.

Be Accessible: I will continue my Listening Tour even after I’m elected. My job is to be accessible, to be responsive, and to listen—especially to the people who don’t agree with me and the people who feel forgotten by a political system that has ignored their concerns for too long.