Kansas’s best-in-class public schools are one of the top reasons families choose to start their families in Shawnee and Lenexa. But our schools only deliver the education we’ve come to expect if the state fulfills its financial obligations to our students. As your senator, I will fight for fully funding our schools – including special education.

As the recent President of the Kansas Association of REALTORS®, I’ve worked with federal and state lawmakers on a variety of issues, including expanding health care access to the 10,000+ members here in Kansas. I’ll take that experience to Topeka, where I’ll work with my colleagues in the Legislature to address health care access, affordability, and quality.

That includes expanding Medicaid, which, in addition to paying for itself, will provide essential health care to over 125,000 vulnerable Kansans across the state.

My wife and I are lifelong Kansans, and we want our kids to have the opportunity to raise their families and start their careers here, too. That means finding solutions to the problems driving young people from our state: developing attainable housing, identifying amenities available in other cities and states, and moving our government away from its startling trend of taking away freedoms from Kansans.