As mayor, I would run YOUR government for YOU. For over four years as a State Representative, I have developed a reputation as someone who cares, someone who gets it, someone who understands the plight of average people, and someone who responds to every phone call and email. Trust is the single most important factor in public service. 

As your State Representative, I have earned the trust of the people by

• posting the work I do for our community on my unrestricted and easy to access public Facebook page every day.
• posting on the homepage of my State Rep website my salary, my complete voting record, bills I sponsored and cosponsored, my home phone number, state house documents I penned.
• meeting with constituents whenever they requested, and returned phone calls and emails. 

There is NO trust when a Mayor

• undermines the safety of school children by trying to trade 8 school crossing guards for a staffer in his office.
• doesn't give enough education funding to allow the schools to spend the minimum state requirement in 7 out of 14 years at the city level, and then tries to blame a lack of education funds on the state.
• increases funding to the schools because of pressure, not priority.
• plays politics with the budget and raises taxes or water rates or trash removal rates when it is not a competitive election year, not does not raise rates when it is an election year.