Children should not have autonomy to make permanent, life altering decisions for themselves, with consequences they cannot understand. Across the board there is an assault on parental rights, including their right to know about the health and well-being of their children. This candidate will work towards ensuring that parental rights are protected and enshrined in our legislation.

Michiganders deserve to have their hard earned tax dollars spent frugally and on things that will produce the greatest improvement for their lives. This candidate believes that we must implement a zero-based budgeting system. Zero-based budgeting means that we start at $0 and each line item in the state's budget will have to be reviewed/justified each year. This does not mean automatic cuts to necessary social programs; if anything this will give us an opportunity to address obvious shortcomings because we'll be reviewing and debating them annually. This also means it will be immensely more difficult for politicians to spend billions of dollars on pork and pet projects.

Renewable energy production is a growing alternative to traditional sources, but has proven to be unreliable, expensive, and inconsistent. Vibrant growing economies require cheap, consistent, and reliable energy. Renewable energies can be part of our future energy plan, but must be treated as a "nice to have" until the technology has matured. With that being said, nuclear energy technology has matured and is now the safest, most efficient, and cleanest form of energy production on the planet...yet it is neglected in the recent "net zero plan". Energy production diversification is required for the long term prosperity of our state.