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Priorities

Priority 1

Make Rhode Island a Place People Can Afford to Stay

Rhode Island’s high cost of housing, high taxes, and limited economic opportunity reduce incentives to stay or invest. Homeownership is under strain, especially for middle and lower income households.The state also struggles to retain a large share of its college-educated graduates, and fewerretained graduates mean fewer startups, fewer new businesses, and less innovation. Residents who lack the means to move are forced to stay, while Rhode Island loses people with means to lower-tax states like Florida.I’ve spent my career building things here: a sandwich shop opened during the recession of the early 90’s, six years helping a homegrown Rhode Island company go global, and a consumer brand now carried by national retailers. I know what it takes to make payroll and live inside a budget, because at the beach club we write one every year and we live within it.How do we turn the tide on the economy? By treating affordability and opportunity as the sameproblem, and by holding state spending to the standard every small business is already held to.

Priority 2

Bring Housing Costs Back Within Reach of Working Families

Across Rhode Island, housing costs have been rising sharply, and a 2025 URI poll finds that 93% of residents believe housing cost is a problem. A telltale sign of the lack of affordable housing is the decline in school enrollment. In many of the coastal and resort towns like Narragansett, there is extra pressure from out-of-state buyers, seasonal demand, and vacation home investment, which pushes market prices beyond what many working families can afford.This is not an abstract problem in District 36. It is the teacher who cannot buy in the town sheteaches in, the young family priced out of the neighborhood they grew up in, and the small business that cannot find staff because no one nearby can afford to live here.We also have to be honest that well-intentioned mandates carry costs. When new requirements raise the price of construction, they raise the price of housing too. Good housing policy means measuring the real-world cost of every rule we pass against the number of homes it actually produces.How do we turn the tide on housing? By building more of it, and by making sure the rules we write help rather than hinder.

Priority 3

Keep Doctors, and Real Access to Care, Close to Home

Despite our top-5 national ranking, Rhode Island still struggles with primary care shortages and long wait times. Physicians trained in Rhode Island often move to Massachusetts and Connecticut due to substantially higher Medicaid and commercial reimbursement rates. Rhode Island’s lower reimbursement creates a talent attraction gap and erodes provider participation. It also limits preventive outreach and shifts care to higher-cost settings, undermining the very efficiencies the state’s healthcare system aims to achieve.The result is what Rhode Islanders already feel: practices closing, waitlists growing, and a shifttoward membership-based care that shrinks access for everyone who cannot pay a retainer.Rhode Island spends billions each year on healthcare and social services. Before we ask taxpayers for more, we should be able to answer a simple question about the money already going out the door: what are we getting for it?How do we turn the tide on healthcare? By making Rhode Island a state doctors choose to practice in, and by auditing what we already spend before we spend more.

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