Platform & Priorities
A bold campaign built on affordability and accountability
Affordability
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Healthcare | Education & Workforce Development | Housing | Energy & Climate Justice | Cost of Living
Families across the 9th District are working hard and still falling behind. The cost of healthcare, housing, energy, education, and daily life keeps rising while wages lag. Affordability should not be a luxury. It should be the baseline.
For decades, this district has been represented by someone who talks about affordability but accepts a system where costs keep rising and accountability is optional. I am running because incrementalism is not working, and people cannot afford another decade of the same.
Affordability means taking on corporate power, monopoly utilities, and broken systems directly, not protecting them with half measures.
Healthcare: Medicare for All
Healthcare costs are crushing working families across the district. From fishermen in New Bedford to seniors on the Cape, service workers, seasonal employees, and small business owners are often uninsured, underinsured, or one medical emergency away from financial disaster. The current approach, supported by Keating, keeps healthcare tied to employment and private insurance profits. That system leaves too many people behind while costs continue to rise. Medicare for All guarantees comprehensive, affordable healthcare for every resident. No networks. No coverage gaps. No fear of losing care when you get sick or need to change jobs. This is not just an ethical issue. It is an economic one. When healthcare is guaranteed, small businesses can grow, workers can change jobs without fear, and families can plan for the future. What this delivers: • Comprehensive coverage including hospital care, doctor visits, mental health, dental, vision, prescriptions, and long-term care • Expanded mental health access, including school counselors and telehealth for rural communities • Lower prescription drug costs, especially for seniors and people with chronic conditions • Investment in community health centers and incentives to recruit and retain providers Affordable healthcare gives families real financial security. It frees up income for housing, education, and retirement instead of insurance premiums and medical debt. It allows us all to enjoy our present and save for our future. This district deserves a representative who will fight for universal care, not defend a system that profits from illness.
Education
& Workforce
Development
Education is the most reliable path to economic mobility, but only if it connects students to real jobs. Too often, students are pushed toward debt with no clear pathway to stable work, while local industries struggle to find skilled workers. For years, this district has had leadership that talks about education while failing to modernize workforce pipelines or expand vocational and apprenticeship opportunities at scale. I believe college, career training, and the trades all deserve equal respect and investment. My approach: • Career-tech and vocational education available to every high school student through strong regional partnerships while continuing to prepare for college • Expanded trades training in areas like electrical, HVAC, plumbing, offshore wind, marine trades, healthcare, culinary arts, cybersecurity, and automotive repair • Union-backed apprenticeship pipelines that take students from diploma to pre-apprenticeship to a good-paying union job • Paid pre-apprenticeship programs for juniors and seniors • Modern skills training including coding, cybersecurity, and digital literacy • Entrepreneurship programs that teach students how to start and sustain small businesses Education should lead to opportunity, not uncertainty. I will fight for clear, funded pathways that keep young people working and living in their communities.
Housing
Affordability
Housing costs are out of control across the district. Seasonal and investor-driven markets inflate prices. Aging housing stock needs repair. Transit gaps isolate affordable units from job centers. Rents have risen dramatically while wages stay the same. These problems did not happen overnight, and they will not be solved by talking points. They require leadership willing to confront speculation and prioritize people over profit. My plan: • Expand Housing Choice Vouchers and automatically enroll eligible workers • Support rent-to-own programs through nonprofits and small landlords • Fund emergency rent assistance and eviction prevention • Rehabilitate mills, schools, and underused buildings into mixed-use housing • Cap short-term rentals that hollow out neighborhoods • Build housing near transit and job centers • Tax vacant properties held purely for speculation Housing security keeps families together, kids in their schools, and workers close to their jobs. This district deserves a representative who treats housing as a human need, not a market experiment.
Energy
Affordability & Climate Justice
Energy is a basic necessity, yet monopoly utilities continue raising rates while posting record profits. Working families pay the highest burden while corporations face little oversight. The incumbent has accepted this status quo. I will not. What I will fight for: • A Climate Superfund that forces fossil fuel corporations to pay for environmental damage. • Allocate those funds to rebuild infrastructure, protect working-class communities, invest in resilient transit and clean energy, and safeguard vulnerable areas like coastal and industrial regions. • Require full transparency on corporate disclosures: what companies knew, when they knew it, and how they responded and hold them criminally or civilly liable for deliberate deception. • Empower states and municipalities in the 9th District and beyond to pursue litigation and recovery actions on behalf of their citizens with federal support. (More than 35 states and municipalities are already suing fossil fuel corporations. • Union-backed green apprenticeship programs Clean energy should lower bills and create local jobs. Climate justice means working families are not forced to subsidize corporate greed.
Daily Costs
& Cost-of-Living Support
Affordability is not one bill. It is transportation, childcare, food, and everything families juggle every month. My priorities: • Expanding affordable public transit across the South Coast, Cape, and Plymouth County • Investing in reliable regional bus service and subsidized options for low-income residents • Universal pre-K and affordable childcare, with fair pay and training for childcare workers • Strengthening SNAP and supporting local agriculture and fisheries • Cracking down on corporate price gouging in essential goods Families should not have to choose between feeding themselves, paying rent, or keeping the lights on. Affordability is dignity.
Accountability
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Restoring Public Service | Congressional Stock Trading | Fair Elections | Federal Oversight & Defending Civil Rights | Supreme Court & Judicial Accountability
No One Above the Law. Government That Works for All, Not the Few.
Across the South Coast, the Cape, and Greater New Bedford, people do their jobs, follow the rules, and expect their government to do the same. But too often, politicians profit from power, elections are bought by outside money, and federal agencies operate without meaningful oversight. Government accountability means enforcing clear rules, real consequences, and transparency so public service stays focused on the people of MA-9.
Restoring Public
Service
Congress was never meant to be a lifetime career or a pipeline to corporate lobbying. Yet that is exactly what it has become. Long tenures create insulation. Insulation creates corruption, even when laws are technically followed. The incumbent has benefited from this structure for years and has no incentive to dismantle it. I support firm, enforceable reforms that break this cycle. My commitments: • Term limits for members of Congress to prevent entrenched power and permanent incumbency • A ten-year ban on lobbying for former members of Congress, senior staff, and immediate family members • A public accountability dashboard tracking post-Congress employment so voters can see who cashes in and where Accountability only works when consequences are real and visible.
Ban & Enforce Congressional
Stock Trading
Families across the district are struggling with rising rents, healthcare costs, and energy bills while members of Congress continue to enrich themselves That is not a loophole. It is legalized corruption. Keating has operated inside this system for decades and benefited from a Congress that polices itself. Which we know does not work. I will fight for: • A full ban on individual stock ownership for members of Congress, senior staff, and immediate family • Mandatory divestment into blind trusts or broad index funds within six months of taking office • Public disclosure of all financial transactions within twenty-four hours • Real penalties for violations, including fines, criminal charges, and expulsion when warranted Public service should never be a wealth-building opportunity.
Fair Elections
and Ending Dark
Money Politics
Permanent fundraising has warped Congress. Members spend more time courting donors than listening to constituents. Billionaires and corporate PACs drown out everyday voices. This system benefits long-time incumbents with built-in donor networks and name recognition. It is no accident that it remains untouched. My position: • Limit congressional campaign seasons to six months • Ban fundraising by sitting members during legislative sessions • Overturn Citizens United so money is no longer treated as speech • Pass the DISCLOSE Act to expose dark money in real time • Expand public financing and small-donor matching so working-class contributions matter Democracy should not depend on who can write the biggest check.
Oversight of
Federal Power and Defending Civil Rights
Accountability must apply to federal agencies as well. Power without oversight leads to abuse, secrecy, and fear in our communities. For too long, Congress has failed to meaningfully oversee agencies like DHS and ICE, allowing constitutional violations to persist while elected officials look the other way. I will not. I will fight for: • Ending warrantless ICE detainers and requiring judicial oversight for all detentions • Ending programs like 287(g) that turn local police into federal immigration agents • Independent oversight of DHS and ICE with subpoena power and community representation • Treating immigration as a civil issue, not a criminal one • Permanent protections for DACA recipients and clear, humane pathways to citizenship Federal power must be checked, transparent, and accountable to the people it serves.
Supreme Court
& Judicial Accountability
The Supreme Court now wields enormous power over American life with virtually no accountability. Lifetime appointments, weak ethics rules, and no enforcement have eroded public trust. Silence from career politicians has allowed this imbalance to grow. My commitments: • Eighteen-year term limits for Supreme Court justices with staggered appointments • A binding and enforceable ethics code with real disclosure and recusal rules Expanded congressional oversight when ethical violations arise • Impeach sitting justices who violated Ethics in Government Act No one, including judges, should operate above the Constitution.