1. Assistance to the Poor:

Maintaining and, when necessary, increasing targeted funding for essential services is a responsible investment in Maryland’s long‑term stability. Ensuring low‑income residents have access to food, housing, and healthcare strengthens families, reduces costly crises, and promotes self-sufficiency. By prioritizing efficiency and accountability, we can support vulnerable communities while safeguarding taxpayer resources and promoting economic resilience.

2. Environment:

The State of Maryland should prioritize cost‑effective environmental strategies that protect taxpayers while encouraging responsible behavior. Rather than expanding grant programs or creating new tax credits, Maryland should focus on reducing regulatory burdens, promoting private‑sector innovation, and ensuring any incentives are targeted, temporary, and tied to measurable outcomes. A fiscally disciplined approach can support carbon‑reduction efforts without growing government spending or shifting costs onto Maryland families and businesses.

3. K-12 Educational Options:

Maryland should continue expanding targeted scholarships because empowering families with choice is a fiscally responsible investment. Allowing low-income students to attend the nonpublic school that best meets their needs reduces long-term costs tied to underachievement and ensures tax dollars work efficiently. By directing resources to students rather than systems, the state promotes accountability, competition, and better outcomes. This approach respects taxpayers while giving every child a fair chance to succeed. It strengthens Maryland’s future workforce too.

4. Physician Assisted Suicide/Medical Aid in Dying:

Maryland should uphold its existing ban on assisted suicide because protecting every human life reflects enduring moral principles and responsible stewardship. Allowing physician-assisted death risks undermining trust in health care and creating fiscal pressures on families and state systems tasked with safeguarding the vulnerable. Preserving the current law affirms compassion expressed through care, not intentional death, and ensures resources remain focused on genuine support, comfort, and life-affirming alternatives for all who face serious illness and uncertainty in our communities.

5. Why Catholics should vote for me:

Catholics should re-elect me, Mike McKay, to the Maryland State Senate. I am a steadfast defender of core Christian teachings with a 100% pro-life voting record, believing life begins at conception and opposing abortion expansions. I have championed religious liberty, including worship rights during the pandemic and conscience protections for faith-based providers. I also advocate for rural Western Maryland’s economic growth, veterans, and healthcare—values aligned with Catholic social teaching on human dignity and the common good.

1. Assistance to the Poor:

There is no need to cut the support for needy families when warehouses, data centers, and massive corporations are given exemptions and tax breaks.

2. Environment:

My platform involves bringing funding for community solar into the district to generate clean energy, and I would support expanding these initiatives even further to make Maryland one of the cleanest states in energy production.

3. K-12 Educational Options:

If a true public school cannot provide the resources, then we must ensure that there is an option for those who need it.

4. Physician Assisted Suicide/Medical Aid in Dying:

I have mixed feelings on the subject. I agree with the concerns that there is a possibility of abuse for those who cannot speak for themselves. I also believe that people should be free to make medical decisions when they have the mental capacity to do so. I watched an uncle slowly fade away from cancer, becoming weaker for many months. He got to a point where he could not rise out of bed or even eat. He did not wish to live, and I would not wish that on someone. I cannot commit to one side or another on this position without a deeper conversation.

5. Why Catholics should vote for me:

I am a candidate that shares many values and concerns with the Catholic Church, as well as an appreciation for their positions. I cannot promise that I will always agree, but I always will welcome a conversation with the Church. I promote a clean energy future, assistance for our most vulnerable, and ensuring every person has the opportunity to succeed through education, healthcare, and support.

1. Assistance to the Poor:

I believe in creating opportunities to empower individuals to uplift themselves so that they can achieve their goals.

1. Assistance to the Poor:

The true measure of a good government is how it cares for those most in need.

2. Environment:

We are in an energy crunch, which is driving up electric utility costs; residential and local commercial solar – as well as other green energy generation methods – will help to alleviate costs while simultaneously addressing climate change. In addition, there is a lot that can be done in the agriculture sector to benefit our local growers and our ecosystems.

3. K-12 Educational Options:

If the State doesn’t own it, the State shouldn’t pay for it. I support the right of every family to seek out the best educational opportunities, but our public tax dollars should only go to public education.

4. Physician Assisted Suicide/Medical Aid in Dying:

I have cared for multiple relatives in hospice, as they deteriorated in agony and eventually passed. It is torture. You’re probably thinking of a depressed 25 year-old – no, this is for 85 year-olds with stage 4 cancer; their calendar is measured in weeks, months maybe, and no amount of medicine or prayer can change that. It is torture to force someone to suffer so, for no purpose. No just God, no loving God, would ever mandate that kind of barbarity.

5. Why Catholics should vote for me:

I stand for the people. Not the ones in thousand-dollar suits, not the ones at the country club – the folks you see at the diner; the ones whose yard sales you go to after seeing a facebook post. I want RESULTS – I don’t care at all how such & such policy looks on paper or lines up with whatever ideology or political philosophy… Will it work? That is the only question I care about. Will it get children off the streets? Will it get food into hungry bellies? Will it help to heal our Earth? Will it help us to build happy and peaceful lives? We all need to step back and remember why we are here.

1. Assistance to the Poor:

I would love to agree with this statement; however, that would be fiscally irresponsible of me. MD is on a fiscal cliff – facing $3b deficit next FY. The budget needs to be flexible. Many audits have shown anomalies in spending/funds not being properly accounted for. I have a huge concern for the middle class being priced out of MD. Property tax assessments were increased as high as 40% in the most-recent assessment cycle in Washington County.

2. Environment:

I agree with tax credits and grant programs for promoting competitive environments, advancing best technologies/practices, and improving efficiencies — not a one-sided approach to promote expensive green energy that has little payback. MD should not be restricting the use/expansion of natural gas to the benefit of advancing electricity production via solar/wind, especially when MD is a (40%) net importer of electricity. Electricity is unaffordable to the average Marylander, and it is a simple issue of supply/demand, and policies/taxes which account for as much as 30% of the electric bill.

3. K-12 Educational Options:

I have always supported the BOOST program/funding and had legislation drafted this past legislative session to enroll MD as a participant in the Federal Opportunity Act which provides a $1,700 tax credit to individuals contributing to education scholarship granting organizations. I withdrew the request and cosponsored HB455 which was sponsored by the minority party in the House of Delegates.

4. Physician Assisted Suicide/Medical Aid in Dying:

I respect life, whether it be the unborn, the elderly, or those suffering from chronic illness. I have voted against the physician-assisted suicide bill on multiple occasions when it came before the House of Delegates. I have also introduced pro-life legislation over the years and have spoken out against/opposed the Constitutional amendment enshrining abortion in the State constitution and other pro-abortion measures. I also oppose public funding of abortion, and physician-assisted suicide.

5. Why Catholics should vote for me:

Certified Public Accountant. Life-long practicing Catholic. Graduate of St. Mary’s Catholic School, Hagerstown Community College (AA), Shepherd College (BS), and Mount Saint Mary’s University (MBA). Employed by private boarding school as Dir. of Finance & Operations. Conscientious. Caring. Fiscally and socially conservative. Traditional family values. Pro-life. Live the Faith!

1. Assistance to the Poor:

The government should play some role in ensuring resources and funding are available to its citizens in times of need. At the same time, citizens of a state must not become heavily dependent on the government for basic needs and must do the necessary work to sustain those basic needs for themselves and their families. Social programs are provided for individuals and families to utilize during difficult times, but must not be abused. These programs are intended for the short term and to help the person get back on their feet as soon as possible.

2. Environment:

I support the idea of the government providing tax credits and grant programs to improve the environment, but it can not be a one-size-fits-all approach, and there must be a choice for citizens to decide. Marylanders should not be forced or penalized if they choose not to buy into green new energy initiatives. There should also not be a mandate for these initiatives. We all want to live on a clean planet, but the government should not force its citizens to support these initiatives if they choose not to.

3. K-12 Educational Options:

When I served in the House of Delegates, I supported the B.O.O.S.T. program, which provided funding for low-income students to attend private schools at the choice of the parent. No child should be held hostage in a failing school because of their zip code. If a parent chooses for their student to attend a private school because the public school is failing, it must be permitted, and the tax dollars must follow the child.

4. Physician Assisted Suicide/Medical Aid in Dying:

Life is precious and must be held with the highest degree of respect. Only God can decide when it’s time for someone to transition from life to death. I do not support physician-assisted suicide or medical aid in dying. As lawmakers, we can not be the facilitator of this decision.

5. Why Catholics should vote for me:

As Jesus Christ is my personal Savior and God is my Heavenly Father, I have a high sense of moral integrity, and my faith is very important to me. My mother, who has since passed away, was a Baptist preacher. She instilled in my brothers and sisters the importance of having our own relationship with Jesus. The older I become, the stronger my relationship grows with Christ, and I teach the same to my daughter. I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I proclaim his name wherever I go. The principles of my Christian faith require me to stand for what’s right and never back down.

5. Why Catholics should vote for me:

I prefer to be fully informed on issues before responding to surveys. What I can tell say is that I am pro-common sense. I am a Christian, and certainly in favor of blessing those who are less fortunate, which includes the unborn as well as those already born.  I am in favor of a clean environment. I favor education that prepares children to function well in the work environment and contribute to the benefit of society, in accordance with their specific giftings and talents. Should I win office, perhaps we can engage further on these issues. Thank you.

3. K-12 Educational Options:

I would need more information. In general, I do not support using taxpayer funds to support private schools. However, if the child needs services that are not available in the public school system, it may warrant use of public funding for them to attend private schools.

5. Why Catholics should vote for me:

I am currently a small business owner, with a previous 30 year career in public service. As a public servant I worked at all levels of government – county, state, and federal – as an employee, volunteer, and community advocate. This experience granted me the opportunity to work for and with officials on both sides of the political aisle to develop policies that best served the American people. I am a fiscal conservative who has worked to safeguard taxpayer money and believes that the government, should be open and transparent to everyone.

1. Assistance to the Poor:

A just society is one in which we support the poor and the stranger (immigrants).

2. Environment:

I have worked hard for twelve years as a member of the Frederick County Council to make our environment cleaner. My very first bill was to strengthen our riparian buffers along our rivers and streams.

3. K-12 Educational Options:

A strong public school system is key to being a successful state.

4. Physician Assisted Suicide/Medical Aid in Dying:

I watched my mother die a difficult death and then was told by my Catholic colleague on the Council that it was for the best. I feel people have the right to die with dignity rather than suffer because of the beliefs of others. Being pro-life should mean a life with dignity not one of suffering with no purpose.

5. Why Catholics should vote for me:

I have done my best to make the county a better place by building libraries, parks, schools and senior centers. My idea of being pro life is creating a society where life has dignity and we support those in need.

1. Assistance to the Poor:

I support MEDICARE For All. If not Federally, I support a Maryland MEDICARE For All. More people with health insurance means we must increase the number of health care providers, by doubling the number of Medical Doctors and health professionals graduating from Maryland medical schools and Universities. I support Rent Stabilization. Frederick County should close the loophole letting developers “buy out” of affordable housing mandates. We should streamline the permitting process for affordable housing and build public housing. Maryland should fund SNAP to replace Federal fund cuts.

2. Environment:

Climate change is real and is an existential threat. Maryland should restore tax credits for installing solar on homes. We should increase mass transit options, including additional MARC trains and extending Metro to Frederick. I-270 needs 2 reversible HOV lanes all the way to Frederick, not HOT lanes.

3. K-12 Educational Options:

Every student in Maryland, regardless of income, should be provided with high-quality free public education that is suited to their educational needs. Schools should be the hubs of their communities, and provide “wrap around services” which address nutritional, social, and mental health needs of students and families. Families have the right to educate their children as they see fit, but the government should not subsidize religious education with tax dollars.

4. Physician Assisted Suicide/Medical Aid in Dying:

It is not the job of government to mandate what medical treatment a patient should receive or not receive. Medical decisions should be made by the patient in consultation with their doctor, their family, and their religious leaders if desired. The government should not mandate expensive, painful medical procedures on patients who do not want them, and should allow humane treatment of pain for terminal patients. The government should ensure that patients who do want extensive medical life-saving or life-extending treatment receive the desired care regardless of cost.

5. Why Catholics should vote for me:

I am the 15th of 17 children and raised Catholic. I share your values of feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and showing love for your neighbor; and will ensure Maryland does that. I served 20 years in the Army including 3 deployments to Bosnia and a tour in Iraq. I took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution. I will defend your freedom of religion, as instructed in the 1st Amendment and in Christ’s guidance to “render unto Cesar what is Cesar’s, and unto God what is God’s”. I will fight for all Maryland residents, and protect Catholics and all religions from government interference.

1. Assistance to the Poor:

As a 20-year Army combat veteran, I know we leave no one behind. Maryland must increase funding to ensure low-income residents secure basic necessities. A just society protects its vulnerable. I actively champion eradicating food insecurity, expanding affordable housing, and guaranteeing comprehensive healthcare. Poverty represents a systemic policy failure, not a personal flaw. In the House of Delegates, I will leverage state resources to uplift District 4 families, directly aligning with the Maryland Catholic Conference’s demand for human dignity and a preferential option for the poor.

2. Environment:

Maryland must fund initiatives that reduce our carbon footprint. The Catholic Conference champions protecting our common home, a moral duty I share deeply as a mother. We must actively incentivize residents, businesses, and non-profits to adopt sustainable practices through targeted tax credits and robust grants. My community leadership proves that financial support drives environmental innovation. In the House of Delegates, I will champion green infrastructure and renewable energy. I will ensure District 4 builds a sustainable, thriving environment for future generations.

3. K-12 Educational Options:

I respect the Conference’s focus on low-income students, but I maintain that public funds must stay in public schools. My platform prioritizes fully funding Maryland’s public education system. District 4’s vulnerable children rely entirely on our public schools. Diverting state resources to private institutions weakens this vital system. We must build equitable public schools that guarantee world-class education and equal protection for every child. I actively champion strengthening our public foundation to serve all families with dignity.

4. Physician Assisted Suicide/Medical Aid in Dying:

I respect the Conference’s reverence for life, but witnessing degenerative disease ravage my family shapes my stance. When illness completely robs individuals of their agency, demanding mere physical existence becomes inhumane. True compassion empowers patients with end-of-life choices. I strongly oppose the 1999 ban. In the House of Delegates, I will actively champion medical aid-in-dying legislation. We must protect human dignity, prevent unnecessary suffering, and uphold in law every individual’s fundamental right to bodily autonomy and peace.

5. Why Catholics should vote for me:

As an Army combat veteran, widowed mother of five, and community leader, I find that my life centers on service. I share the Catholic Conference’s commitment to human dignity, environmental stewardship, and the uplift of the vulnerable. Through my local advocacy, I actively fight poverty and demand affordable housing. While our platforms may occasionally diverge, my fierce dedication to protecting marginalized families firmly unites us. I will govern District 4 with unyielding compassion, ensuring that every Marylander has the resources they need to live a safe, dignified life.

1. Assistance to the Poor:

Our state budget should prioritize funding basic human needs first, such as food, housing, and healthcare for our most vulnerable citizens.

2. Environment:

I am a proponent of incentives such as tax credits and grant programs that encourage working toward a cleaner, safer environment.

3. K-12 Educational Options:

I am a school choice advocate and believe our tax dollars should follow the student. I fully support funding for children attending K-12 nonpublic schools, especially those in low-income households.

4. Physician Assisted Suicide/Medical Aid in Dying:

I am against any legislation that would seek to legalize physician-assisted suicide/medical aid in dying. I believe human life is sacred and should be protected from practices seeking to end a patient’s life.

5. Why Catholics should vote for me:

I was born and raised in a strong Catholic family and my morals and values were shaped by the Catholic church at an early age. I have dedicated my entire professional career in public service as a law enforcement officer and Maryland Parole Commissioner, where I swore an oath to protect life and uphold our laws. I have a passion for serving others and believe our community is only as strong as our most vulnerable citizens.

1. Assistance to the Poor:

Maryland must move from a “handout” to a “hand up” model, prioritizing work and dignity. Chronic failures within the DHS—including millions in wasted costs, high SNAP errors, and lapses in foster care safety—demand immediate accountability. By streamlining services and partnering with transparent faith-based and local charities, we can maximize resources. This foundation of transparency and community-driven support is essential to protecting our most vulnerable and empowering low-income Marylanders to achieve the long-term self-sufficiency and stability they deserve.

2. Environment:

Maryland should embrace market-based environmental solutions that reward innovation over mandates. Targeted tax credits empower residents, businesses & non-profits to protect resources like the Chesapeake Bay while sustaining economic growth. We must demand the same transparency and oversight for green energy spending like all state funds to ensure results for taxpayers. By fostering local stewardship through accountable incentives, we can achieve a cleaner Maryland and preserve our natural beauty without burdened families being crushed by soaring energy prices or inefficient programs.

3. K-12 Educational Options:

Zip codes shouldn’t define a child’s destiny. Parents are the primary educators and deserve the freedom to choose public, private, or parochial settings. I sponsored HB455, the ‘Opt into Opportunity’ Act, to leverage federal tax credits and expand educational pathways. In light of systemic failures and transparency gaps, we must support initiatives like BOOST and HB455. By ensuring funding follows the student, we foster healthy competition rather than propping up failing systems. We must empower parents with choices and hold every dollar to the highest standard of accountability.

1. Assistance to the Poor:

Although I believe our budget is becoming too large, I do believe that we should support our most vulnerable citizens. I believe that the best way to do this is by ensuring that we have a robust economy that can uplift all residents.

2. Environment:

I generally support tax credits, and I believe that we should encourage Marylanders to support a cleaner environment. Incentives can be an effective tool.

3. K-12 Educational Options:

I strongly support opportunities for Maryland students to attend charter and other non-public schools best suited for their individual needs. Every student deserves an opportunity to succeed.

5. Why Catholics should vote for me:

As a Catholic myself, I believe that we should live a moral life. I also believe that we should show acts of mercy by supporting our most venerable citizens. In my eight years of legislative office, I have prioritized protecting our most vulnerable citizens.

1. Assistance to the Poor:

Housing, medical care, and food are human rights. We should do all we can to make sure these are safe for all. We can make our community healthier and safer by paying more attention to these basic needs.

2. Environment:

It is time to stop living like it’s 1973. A disruption in the world’s oil supply, and our economy is thrown into chaos? We have had over 50 years to make sure this doesn’t happen, and yet here we go again. By the time I am finished writing this the US will have spent another 5 million dollars on weapons of war. Feel free to contact me if you have ideas for ways this money could be better spent. How about housing, education, food, health, and protecting the environment. (For a start…)

3. K-12 Educational Options:

Public money should fund public schools. Private schools are a choice. Let’s do what needs to be done to make sure there are great public schools in every neighborhood, regardless of zip code.

4. Physician Assisted Suicide/Medical Aid in Dying:

Life is sacred. We should be doing more to teach nonviolence because we certainly have enough advocates of violence promoting destruction of human life.

5. Why Catholics should vote for me:

We all have an obligation to promote the common good and I take that responsibility seriously. Reducing violence, advocating for the poor, addressing basic services for everyone – these are all positions I advocate. We can all work together to make Maryland and Carroll County places that serve as models for the rest of the country. Everyone does better when everyone does better. When we don’t fight hard enough for the values we say we believe in, pretty soon it becomes apparent that we don’t really believe what we say.

5. Why Catholics should vote for me:

Respect for the key God-given values of life, freedom of religion and common sense care for those who are most vulnerable while encouraging a culture of hard work, family and accountability are at the core of my belief. As a State Senator, I work each day to balance the needs we have with the taxpayer funds available. I believe in strong families make safe and strong communities. While the Catholic Conference and I agree on some specific policies and also disagree with some, Catholic voters can count on me to always stand up for our shared values and respectfully discuss how to solve problems.

1. Assistance to the Poor:

Yes, I agree and I also believe in providing wraparound community services to provide families free health screenings. Such as vision and dental screening.

3. K-12 Educational Options:

This offers the opportunity for smaller classroom sizes for children who benefit from learning in a small classroom size setting.

4. Physician Assisted Suicide/Medical Aid in Dying:

Personally, I had a family member who was a retired nurse, a Vietnam Veteran, and chose to die with dignity in Washington State. He was suffering from MS and was near his last days. He was suffering from a severe infection that was extremely painful. He just couldn’t take it and it was very difficult for the family as well we didn’t want to see him suffer. Rick was a good man he was very caring and always helping others. He helped my mother in-law raise my husband. I think it’s possible under very strict circumstances to provide individuals this option if they choose to die with dignity.

5. Why Catholics should vote for me:

I grew up Catholic, my grandmother used to take us to Saint Michael in Miami Dade and later our family moved and we went to Saint Brendan; my youngest sister and 4 of my cousins graduated from Saint Brendan High School. I do hold strong beliefs in always helping others, making sure people have access to food and shelter, basic necessities. While still respecting the beliefs of others. Thank you for your consideration and I hope that we can work together in the future.

5. Why Catholics should vote for me:

I am pro-life and believe that school choices that include access to private education at faith based schools.

1. Assistance to the Poor:

We are too wealthy of a society to accept people starving or living on the streets, and so basic life-sustaining services should be in place as a safety net for citizens falling on hard times. However, I believe that private charities (such as various Catholic organizations) are better at providing such services, and are much better stewards of funds, than is the government. My preference is to keep government small and restrained, and for services for the poor to be provided by private organizations.

2. Environment:

Firstly, Maryland’s carbon emissions are a negligible fraction of the global total, and so any such action would be ineffective and performative virtue signaling. Secondly, I oppose programs that serve to grow the government into an ever-larger and ever-more-powerful behemoth, engineering society and controlling citizens’ lives through inefficient and heavy-handed programs. The effective and sensible way to reduce carbon footprint in Maryland – to the extent it is even necessary – is to remove barriers to natural gas and nuclear power plants.

3. K-12 Educational Options:

Although I always wish to constrain government to the extent possible, given that the primary source of education funding in MD is the state, I believe the state should indeed expand existing funding to provide scholarships for ANY student — not just a low-income student — who wishes to attend the K-12 nonpublic school best suited for their educational needs. The purpose of educational funding is to educate students, not to maintain a jobs program for public school educators, and the funding should follow the student to the educational establishment that best fits their values and needs.

4. Physician Assisted Suicide/Medical Aid in Dying:

I am pro-life, believing that all life – especially innocent life – is precious and worthy of protection, and that applies to both ends of a person’s lifespan. I certainly sympathize with people in chronic pain, or with fatal diseases, but I do not believe that the answer is suicide, and I do not believe that the state should facilitate or encourage such actions.

5. Why Catholics should vote for me:

I believe that Catholics should vote for me for the same reasons that other residents should vote for me: because I stand for personal responsibility, traditional family values, parental rights, law and order, and property rights. I am strongly pro-life and pro-school-choice. And I work hard to represent my constituents with integrity, transparency, and accountability. In addition, while I do not exactly wear my faith on my sleeve, I am a proud Catholic. We had a beautiful Catholic wedding 4 years ago and we’re raising our daughter Catholic.

1. Assistance to the Poor:

I’m generally skeptical of increasing Maryland’s budget, which in the past four years has increased 17% from $60B to over $70B. I definitely want to ensure needy citizens have access to basic necessities such as food, housing, and healthcare. I want to see significant Medicaid reform to ensure only those who truly need it receive vital services. The federal government will very likely reduce Medicaid funds to states and we must ensure the limited funds that remain help those who need it most.

2. Environment:

Maryland’s climate policies and unrealistic goals are the reason why utility rates have soared. Nearly 30% of current bills include taxes and fees to build alternative energy solutions and delivery channels — these exorbitant costs do not inject much needed energy in the grid … and won’t be created or delivered for many years to come. Today, we must import 40% of our energy, which is simply generated by fossil fuels in neighboring states.

3. K-12 Educational Options:

I support fully scholarship programs for low-income students; a program that Maryland Democrats tried to cut significantly last year. I am a former educator and current president of the Carroll County Board of Education. I would also like to champion legislation to help facilitate school choice and help parents offset the cost of private school tuition, after-school tutor programs, etc.

4. Physician Assisted Suicide/Medical Aid in Dying:

The medical profession should assist in prolonging life and making patients comfortable during the final days. I do not support physician-assisted suicide / medical aid in dying. I believe in the power of prayer and God’s plan for our lives.

5. Why Catholics should vote for me:

I am a life-long Christian Conservative. My campaign philosophies include faith, family, freedom, and fiscal responsibility. Faith is listed first for a reason as He and His word guide my life. I am pro-life and will always consider the principals of my faith in any decision I make in Annapolis.

1. Assistance to the Poor:

I support maintaining and, when necessary, increasing funding to ensure low-income Marylanders have access to basic necessities like food, housing, and healthcare. No one who works hard and plays by the rules should struggle to meet basic needs, and government has the ability to offer support systems that create a path to opportunity and self-sufficiency.

2. Environment:

I support initiatives such as tax credits and grant programs that encourage Maryland residents, businesses, and nonprofits to reduce their carbon footprint. However, Maryland’s rising utility costs must be a central concern in any energy policy. Protecting ratepayers and ensuring affordable, reliable energy should be a top priority, including expanding consumer choice among energy suppliers and holding utilities accountable for cost increases. Environmental progress cannot come at the expense of working families struggling with high energy bills.

3. K-12 Educational Options:

Maintaining limited, targeted scholarship opportunities that help low-income families access educational options, including nonpublic schools, is valuable. However, any expansion to these programs should not divert additional resources away from public schools. My priority remains fully funding and strengthening public schools, which serve the vast majority of Maryland students.

4. Physician Assisted Suicide/Medical Aid in Dying:

As a Catholic, I respect the Church’s teaching on the sanctity of life and its call to accompany people with compassion and dignity through suffering, especially at the end of life. At the same time, I believe individuals should have the freedom to make deeply personal end-of-life decisions in consultation with their families and doctors. My perspective is grounded in compassion, care, and humanity, and I want to ensure that people facing terminal illness or unbearable suffering are treated with dignity, empathy, and respect, and that their wishes are taken seriously.

5. Why Catholics should vote for me:

Maryland Catholics should consider voting for me because I respect the role faith plays in guiding families and communities, and I share the commitment to treating every person with dignity and compassion. As a public school teacher from a working-class community, I understand the importance of supporting families, strengthening communities, and expanding real opportunities through education and good-paying jobs. I will always keep an open line of communication with our parishes and clergy, ensuring they have a voice in public policy discussions that affect their communities.

1. Assistance to the Poor:

Maryland’s state budget has grown by $30 billion in 12 years and our public benefits system has been shown to be rife with fraud. We need to change our tactics so that we can start to see economic growth, we can keep people in our state and our younger generations can afford to live and be prosperous independently.

2. Environment:

These programs are causing the cost of electricity to skyrocket, crushing the middle class and causing energy to be unaffordable for everyone. We should move to expand nuclear as it would provide clean energy for our entire state AND lower costs for every ratepayer.

3. K-12 Educational Options:

Education funds should follow the student so that students and parents have control of their educational decisions. This has proven to create accountability in both private and public education.

4. Physician Assisted Suicide/Medical Aid in Dying:

I agree 100%. Advocates argue that physician-assisted suicide is provided for the terminally ill and in pain. In reality, it is used by many – including many young people – as an alternative to affordable care or effective mental health treatments. We should focus on making healthcare affordable for everyone.

5. Why Catholics should vote for me:

I was born and raised in the Essex/Middle River area and I understand our district well. I am committed to making Maryland affordable for all people, handling environmental issues, providing school choice to every Maryland student, protecting life and protecting our communities.

4. Physician Assisted Suicide/Medical Aid in Dying:

Never aid in assisting in playing God

5. Why Catholics should vote for me:

Yes, I’m pro life, speak for the unborn, support the Catholic schools, support for the broken hearted, support to feeding the hungry, help restore the prisoners, just support the family