Congressional bid for Vermont House of Representatives -
Distrtict Chittenden - 22
Requesting your consideration for this position
Let's start to think outside of our usual frameworks and expand our potential.
On this webiste I present a few ideas and share a little about myself. It will require forethought, contemplation, experience and energy and commitment to get things done.
I believe in the true grit, wisdom and creativity of our state. and that we can do great things together.
I'm running for a House of Representatives positon in Chittenden-22 to bring some ideas to the conversation I will seek out new possibilities, collaboration with other members of that house and really use our ingenuity and imagination to bring us into a new Era of mutual prosperity, peace and wholesome livelihood for Vermonters.
Life Experience: Program Managment, Co-Founding President of Active Minds at the University of Vermont, Co-Founder of the Pathways Community Center, Burlington, VT, Co-Founder of The Living Tree Alliance Co-Housing Village, Farm and LLC in Moretown, VT, Professional Masonry & Landscaping Experience, Peer to Peer Counseling, Developmental Services & Mental Health Case Mmanager, Teacher, Community Support (live-in-aid), Residential Manager for a Chittenden County Social Service Agency, Advisory Board member of the Medical Reserv Corps within the Emergency Preparedness Department at the State of Vermont
What skills, talents, and knowledge do you have? What do you like learning about? What are you passionate about? Please share you knowledge and expertise.
If you're interested in any of the ideas listing in this proposal, please contact me to discuss your insights and let me know if you would like to join our crew.
What achievements are you proud of?
What are some of your strengths?
What skills are you working on?
Planning & Ideas
Infrastructure: Economic Development
New zoning, village models of development and new construction
Improve existing buildings
Tear down the buildings that are destroyed, not up to code and ease permitting restrictions and bureaucratic load
Rebuild homes destroyed by climate change with resilience relevant for the potential for repeated exposure or damage for the existing locale
Reinterpret and review state and local scope of defensive planning to include infrastructural redesign and local landscapes evaluation
Understanding of economic viability of regions in Vermont and general capacities and stable income requirements
Housing for all
Permanent elimination of poverty
Balanced salaries of essential work force
Maintain functional systems
Streamlined jobs that fit needs
Future manufacturing jobs, social and civil service jobs
Infrastructure: Energy
Invest in Research and Development
Invest in clean energy - continue to incentive growing safe, responsible business development
Potential Ideas for the future:
3D printing/recycling in transfer stations
Invest in fusion technology investment and innovation - partner with Vermont based universities and local providers
Create highspeed railways or hyperloops with basic hubs in the West, North, South, East, and specific corridors that connects Vermont's trading hubs
Electrify or diversity energy types (hydrogen, wind, solar) combined with battery storage, consumption and use within the workforce the overall infrastructure and the economy
Flat rebate for climate improvements and energy efficiency program, products, and infrastructure
Infrastructure: Financial
Increase quality of production, services and goods (quality over quantity)
Fiscal Responsibility
Pragmatic decision making
Balanced budget
National & Internation Relations: Business
Trade competence
Development of united system with trading partners
Big adjust tax rate for excessive wealth accumulation over $200,000,000
Tax adjustments
Streamline companies, permitting, application process and bureaucratic overload to simplify working conditions while maintaining the highest level of safety.
Secure supply chain
Made it in Vermont - evaluating potential for innovation, continuing investments in invention hubs
3D print housing and other goods
Strengthening agreements and trade with national and international partnerships.
Education:
Cut to cost of childcare
Balance and prioritize children and needs of school districts while balancing the overall budgets
Education online resources that are open source, available, taxpayer made, research and evidence based. A fact based, object education online resource to teach and educate
Apprenticeship options for schooling
Justice:
Create humanitarian special ops corps that includes economic, social, engineering, architectural, psychological, financial, ethical
Create ethical and moral, civil service curriculum (emphasized in schools and our local communities) - not based on specific ideologies or religious beliefs
Public education about mental wellness, lower stress weekly routines, health and mecial awareness
Cultivating active minds for continuing development, invention, retraining workforce as needed and and providing opportunities for apprenticeships, job training and economic growth