Georgia has $14 billion in the bank. Property tax bills went up anyway. The state stopped funding the things property taxes pay for and let local governments cover it. Relief should come from the surplus that already exists — not from gutting the income tax that funds schools.

Lower Costs → Property tax relief paid for by the surplus, not by cutting school funding.

Higher Standards → $14B sitting unused is a governance failure, not a virtue.

Six weeks for a doctor's appointment in one of the wealthiest zip codes in the state. The shortage is real, the coverage gap is wider than it has to be, and the state has the money to address both. This isn't partisan — it's a math problem nobody in the State House is doing.

Lower Costs → Close the coverage gap. Fund the workforce. The math is in front of us.

Higher Standards → A system that fails on its own terms regardless of insurance is a system failing.

The reason the surplus sits there, the reason the road's two years late, the reason your representative doesn't call back — it's not that government is too big. It's that nobody's keeping score. I spent twenty years checking what people in power said against what they did. That's what I bring.

Lower Costs → Oversight is how dollars stop going missing between collection and outcome.

Higher Standards → Public dollars, public results, public scoreboard. If we said we'd do it, did we do it?

Georgia built a pre-K program the country looks at — then made the income cutoff for child care help the strictest in the country. A family of four making $32,000 is now too rich to qualify. The state isn't holding itself to the standard it set. Politicians don't run on this because the payoff is ten years out. I'm going to run on it anyway.

Lower Costs → Child care averages $11,000 a year. A dollar before age five does the work of seven later.

Higher Standards → A state that gets pre-K right and then cuts the legs out from under working families isn't meeting its own standard.

Safety in District 47 is not the cable-news script about "career criminals and gangs." That's imported language. Real safety here is your kid home from practice, your mom not getting scammed, your daughter not showing up in a fake image online, your neighborhood feeling like your neighborhood.

Lower Costs → Elder fraud and online scams are real costs landing on real households today.

Higher Standards → Solve the actual problem, not the one on TV.