When a factory, AI Data Center, bitcoin mining warehouse, or Nuclear facility moves into your area, there needs to be transparency on environmental/utility impact. If we ban NDAs being passed out to surrounding homeowners from a project we can provide a layer of transparency to the public while protecting homeowners from future abuse. Republicans in Frankfort have cheered on companies passing out NDAs to homeowners during interm committee sessions.

In a lot of Kentucky elections your elected officials are chosen by a small pool of voters in a partisian primary.

Ranked choice voting is a nonpartisan electoral reform that gives voters the freedom to rank candidates in order of choice. This can provide voters an incentive to research who is on the ballot and provides a larger voice to the voters in every election.

A detailed breakdown can be reviewed here. https://www.rankthevoteky.org/what_is_rcv

Right now, massive out-of-state tech corporations and cryptocurrency miners are treating Western Kentucky like a resource colony. They move in, drain our energy grid, use our local infrastructure, and take massive tax handouts from the government, all while creating very few permanent jobs. Then, the immense wealth they generate is vacuumed right out of our community and directly into the pockets of out-of-state billionaires and massive operations like Riot Platforms or Peter Thiel.

It is time we stop letting them extract our resources for free. Look at how they handle this in other parts of the country: Alaska takes a chunk of the profits from their massive oil industry and puts it into a trust that pays out a direct, yearly check to every single resident. We need to build the exact same model right here. If AI data centers, Bitcoin mining facilities, and nuclear enrichment plants want to set up shop in our backyard and use our resources, they need to pay a community impact fee that goes straight into a local dividend fund. That money shouldn’t be flying off to Silicon Valley; it should be cut as a direct check to the working families of McCracken County who are taking on all the risks. It’s time to keep our money circulating right here on Main Street, instead of subsidizing Wall Street billionaires.

For far too Long Republicans have cried about fiscal responsibility while never addressing the backwards priorities they focus on. It is time to stop the crony spending in Frankfort, the corporate handouts, and the backward priorties. If we can cut the waste, abuse, and fraud in Frankfort we can start investing in infrastructure that will truly move our district forward.

The privatization of Kentucky’s Medicaid management has resulted in massive systemic inefficiencies, most visibly highlighted by a recent state audit exposing over $800 million in questionable capitation payments made to Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) between 2019 and 2022. Due to administrative negligence and a failure to enforce basic data-tracking for concurrent out-of-state enrollments, these corporate insurers were permitted to pocket recurring monthly premiums for patients they were not actively treating. When state agencies fail to aggressively audit these massive, privatized contracts, it creates unchecked administrative bloat that prioritizes corporate profit margins over care, directly draining hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars away from actual public health infrastructure and the Kentuckians who depend on it.

The aggressive acquisition of single-family homes by private equity firms and institutional investors has transformed local housing markets into speculative asset classes, a crisis that is increasingly squeezing prospective homeowners out of the market in Kentucky. While this corporate consolidation is often viewed as a strictly metropolitan problem, mid-sized and rural markets in Western Kentucky are highly vulnerable to out-of-state, cash-heavy investors looking to exploit lower regional property costs for high-yield rental portfolios. By outcompeting local, middle-class families with all-cash offers and subsequently driving up both home valuations and rental rates, these corporate landlords are systematically extracting generational wealth from Western Kentucky communities. Implementing a legislative ban or strict ownership caps on institutional investors purchasing single-family homes would halt this localized wealth extraction, ensuring that regional housing inventory remains accessible to actual working residents rather than serving as profit engines for Wall Street.

Right now, too many working Kentuckians are just one sick kid or unexpected medical emergency away from going broke. We need a paid family leave system that actually has our backs. But we have to build it the right way, which means protecting our local mom-and-pop shops. Small businesses are the heart of our communities, and they shouldn’t have to shoulder the massive costs of a new program alone. Instead of slapping them with heavy fees, the state needs to step up with grants or tax breaks so small shops can offer great benefits to their workers without going under. On the flip side, the massive out-of-state corporations need to pay their own way. They shouldn’t get to dump the costs of their workers’ health emergencies onto the taxpayers. It’s time to make the big guys pay their fair share out of their own deep pockets, while we protect the Main Street businesses right here at home.

If we don’t build new homes and protect our current supply right now, the upcoming industrial boom at the Paducah DOE site is going to completely break our local housing market. We are about to see a massive influx of construction and industrial workers descending on Western Kentucky for a historic wave of mega-projects. Between the new $100 billion data center campus, the massive NextEra natural gas plant being built to power it, the new General Matter uranium enrichment facility, ongoing site cleanup, and the upcoming metal processing plant, we are looking at roughly 8,000 construction workers alone needing a place to stay—not to mention the hundreds of permanent jobs that follow.

When thousands of workers suddenly need a roof over their heads all at once, out-of-state corporate landlords will see blood in the water. Without strong protections, massive investment firms will swoop in, buy up our limited supply of single-family starter homes, and rent them out at sky-high rates to out-of-town contractors. That creates a disastrous squeeze where our local, middle-class families simply get outbid and priced out of their own hometown.

We can’t let our community’s economic growth become a weapon used against our own residents. We have to prepare our infrastructure by investing millions into local affordable housing trust funds to get shovels in the ground before the worst of the crunch hits. Furthermore, we must cap how many single-family homes massive investment firms can hoard. If we want this new wave of industry and energy production to actually benefit McCracken County, we have to make sure the working folks already living here can still afford to call it home.

If you’ve noticed your rent skyrocketing even when nothing about your apartment has been updated, it’s not just your imagination—and it’s not a coincidence. Massive corporate landlords are increasingly using hidden, third-party software programs to artificially inflate and fix rent prices across entire regions.

It is essentially high-tech price gouging. These companies feed their data into an algorithm to collude with one another, eliminating fair competition and forcing renters to pay artificially inflated prices or face eviction. In fact, this practice is so anti-competitive that the software systems these landlords rely on are currently being sued by the Justice Department for antitrust violations.

I strongly support legislation to explicitly ban algorithmic rent-fixing in Kentucky. A working family’s rent should reflect the local community and fair market competition—it should absolutely not be dictated by a rigged, predatory algorithm designed in a Wall Street boardroom to squeeze every last dime out of your paycheck.

When our parents and grandparents reach the point where they need long-term care, they deserve to live with safety and dignity. Just as importantly, the folks working long hours to care for them deserve a living wage. But right now, the nursing home industry in Kentucky is being hijacked by out-of-state private equity firms that treat our seniors like profit margins and their workers like disposable expenses. We have to reform this system so that care always comes before corporate payouts.

The Private Equity Squeeze & Hidden Abuses
Faceless Wall Street investment groups are quietly buying up local nursing facilities across the state. When these firms take over, their playbook is brutally simple: slash staffing, cut corners on basic necessities, and extract millions in management fees. Worse, they hide behind complicated shell companies and forced arbitration clauses to protect themselves from lawsuits when their aggressive cost-cutting inevitably leads to neglect, accidental deaths, or outright abuse. We need absolute ownership transparency so we know exactly who is profiting off our seniors, and we must ban the legal loopholes that allow these corporate landlords to dodge accountability in a courtroom.

The Staffing and Wage Crisis
You cannot provide safe, dignified care when a facility is intentionally running on a skeleton crew and paying poverty wages. Shockingly, as noted by the State Ombudsman E-Newsletter, Kentucky currently has no mandatory minimum staffing ratios for nursing homes, unlike all of the states surrounding us. This massive loophole allows corporate owners to intentionally short-staff floors just to save a buck, leaving the few remaining aides completely exhausted, overworked, and underpaid. We have to pass laws mandating strict, daily minimum staffing hours per resident. Furthermore, we need to mandate that a specific percentage of a facility’s revenue actually goes toward paying those frontline caregivers a living wage, rather than padding a hedge fund’s bottom line.

Failing State Oversight
None of these protections matter if the state isn’t even checking in on the facilities. A brutal state audit covered by RamaOnHealthcare recently revealed that Kentucky’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services severely neglected its basic oversight duties, leaving some nursing homes completely uninspected for over four years—up to 51 months past the federal deadline. When state inspectors don’t show up, abuses get swept under the rug and vulnerable people get hurt. We have to force our state oversight agencies to do their jobs and conduct aggressive, unannounced inspections so bad actors can’t hide in the dark.