First and foremost, I will fully fund public schools, including special education reimbursement. We are done with incrementalism and settling for crumbs for our kids. This will also put an end to the toxic cycle of school referendums that are driving property taxes up.

 I will safely and swiftly end the voucher system.

Every kid in Wisconsin will get a free breakfast and lunch. Period.

I will expand early childhood education to include full day 3K.

Expand access to loans and grants to provide the financial foundation for starting a small business.

Offer assistance to entrepreneurs in developing business plans and setting goals.

Provide tax incentives for locally owned companies, prioritizing them over large corporations.

Invest in downtown revitalization and local infrastructure to enhance the community’s appeal.

Encourage consumers to shop locally, promoting economic growth and community prosperity.

Increase supply of homes the average person can afford. This can be a combination of smaller single-family homes, cooperative buildings, or community land trusts. We need more of our neighbors gaining equity in their own homes, instead of funneling hard earned money to landlords.

Everyone agrees we need more affordable housing, but no one wants it in their backyard. Instead of leaving zoning reform to localities, we need to combat nimbyism at the state level. Make common sense zoning reform, like higher density housing and ADUs, legal statewide.

Expand WHEDA funding to get more people low-interest mortgages and down payment assistance.

Regulate investment companies to limit their buying of single-family homes, ensuring a more balanced housing market.

Address the soaring rent costs to alleviate the financial strain on renters and facilitate smoother transitions to homeownership.

Smarter land use and flood control. Flooding causes the most consistent damage, so prevention starts with where and how things are built.

Invest in green infrastructure: healthy wetlands protect us from flooding.

Stronger building standards to protect from hail and tornado damage. Building codes are one of the most cost effective tools over time.

Upgrade stormwater systems so they can handle heavier rainfall events.

Support early warning and response systems. You can’t stop storms but you can reduce harm with better alerts and communication.

Financial resilience for small businesses and farmers. Ensure access to emergency funds so one bad storm doesn’t permanently wipe out a lifetime of hard work.

As a former childcare owner, I know both the providers and the parents are struggling to make ends meet. I propose we:

• Renew the Child Care Counts funding for child care centers. This money can be used to help cover staff wages/ benefits and operating costs.
• Cap rates families pay to 7% of their annual income per child. 
• Expand access to early child education to include all day 3K.
• Increase wages for staff to $15/hour now, and plan to increase to $20/hour. 

As a nurse for 20 years, I don’t want to settle at expanding healthcare access; I want to change how it runs.

I want to dismantle vertical integration monopolies. In health insurance this happens when a single company owns multiple stages of the supply chain. For example, a company like UnitedHealth Group owns the insurance plan, the PBM, the pharmacies, and the doctors. Vertical integration causes increased costs, loss of choice, and no improvement in quality. 

We will open the state health insurance plan up to everyone (KeldaCare). 

Fully expand Medicaid.

Hold insurance companies accountable for unjust denials.