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Supports expanding low-interest loan programs and housing tax credits for developers to build affordable homes, anticipating 18,000 new units and job creation over a decade, emphasizing the importance of home ownership and robust programs to achieve it.

Supports expanding low-interest loan programs and housing tax credits for developers to build affordable homes.

Believes in revitalizing urban areas to boost business, values strong city-county partnerships for efficient planning, and supports community-driven projects like regional parks and libraries to enhance business attractiveness.

Believes in revitalizing urban areas to boost business; values strong city-county partnerships for efficient planning, and supports community-driven projects like regional parks and libraries to enhance business attractiveness.

Believes Governor Gianforte's veto of the bipartisan bill expanding the affordable housing loan fund, backed by Montana's coal tax trust, ignores a major obstacle to the state's economy, with Republicans supporting the veto against Democratic opposition.

Believes the lack of affordable housing is a barrier to Montana's economic growth.

Opposes legislation granting tax breaks for private schooling, citing inaccessibility for rural Montana families and the impracticality for those facing long commutes and underfunded public schools.

Said, "I strongly believe we need paid family leave legislation and am studying how other states have responded to this issue."

- Supports expanding low-interest loan programs and housing tax credits for developers to build affordable homes.
- Believes in revitalizing urban areas to boost business; values strong city-county partnerships for efficient planning, and supports community-driven projects like regional parks and libraries to enhance business attractiveness.
- Believes the lack of affordable housing is a barrier to Montana's economic growth.
- Opposes legislation granting tax breaks for private schooling, citing inaccessibility for rural Montana families and the impracticality for those facing long commutes and underfunded public schools.
- Supports paid family leave legislation.

Economy

Supports maintaining public lands in public ownership, opposes selling them, and advocates for balanced management through collaborative partnerships, as exemplified by the Blackfoot Challenge, rather than litigation. Encourages the Montana Legislature to promote similar strategies.

Supports maintaining public lands in public ownership, opposes selling them, and advocates for balanced management through collaborative partnerships.

Said, "On the conservation an energy fronts, I’m very interested in net metering and finding ways to reward Montanans who invest in renewable energy."

Said, "I’m very interested in net metering and finding ways to reward Montanans who invest in renewable energy."

Said, "During the last decade, the radical right has called for privatizing public lands. I have worked hard, as have others, including many republicans, to defeat these proposals. It will always be my highest"

Said, "During the last decade, the radical right has called for privatizing public lands. I have worked hard... to defeat these proposals."

The candidate's website says, "Research continues to show that clean air and clean water protect both environmental and human health... The Legislature needs to be in the forefront of protecting our environmental laws."

Prioritizes protecting environmental and human health; believes the needs to be enforce and preserve environmental laws.

- Supports maintaining public lands in public ownership, opposes selling them, and advocates for balanced management through collaborative partnerships.
- Said, "I’m very interested in net metering and finding ways to reward Montanans who invest in renewable energy."
- Said, "During the last decade, the radical right has called for privatizing public lands. I have worked hard... to defeat these proposals."
- Prioritizes protecting environmental and human health; believes the needs to be enforce and preserve environmental laws.

Energy & the Environment

Said, "The Legislature must ensure quality health care is available to all... every individual has the right to make private, personal decisions about health issues including reproductive choice... This right is enshrined in our State Constitution and I will protect it."

Supports abortion and the right to privacy with regard to personal health decisions.

Opposes HB113, citing risks of increased depression and suicidal tendencies in transgender youths, as evidenced by a 2009 Boston study and contrary to American Academy of Pediatrics' recommendations.

Opposes House Bill 113 (HB113), citing risks of increased depression and suicidal tendencies in transgender youths.

- Supports abortion and the right to privacy with regard to personal health decisions.
- Opposes House Bill 113 (HB113), citing risks of increased depression and suicidal tendencies in transgender youths.

Healthcare

Opposes the gun bill allowing permitless concealed carry, including on college campuses, citing Democratic resistance and constituent opposition to easing gun restrictions.

Opposes the gun bill allowing permitless concealed carry, including on college campuses.

Supports gun rights and natural resource protection; aided Pat Williams' campaign, highlighting his A+ gun rights record and superior stance on environmental issues compared to Ron Marlene, through a report card in Montana's newspapers.

Supports right to own guns; believes weapon possession should be regulated.

- Opposes the gun bill allowing permitless concealed carry, including on college campuses.
- Supports right to own guns; believes weapon possession should be regulated.

Public Safety

Opposes Republican bills for partisan elections of Montana's judiciary, which threaten the state's long-standing independent, non-partisan judicial system since 1889, despite recent narrow defeats of such legislation.

Opposes Republican bills for partisan elections of Montana's judiciary.

Opposes the Republican majority's passage of anti-immigration measures and the termination of same-day voter registration, despite unanimous Democratic opposition.

Opposes the termination of same-day voter registration.

- Opposes Republican bills for partisan elections of Montana's judiciary.
- Opposes the termination of same-day voter registration.

Voting & Elections

Opposes subsidizing private school tuition with tax money, supports strengthening Montana's public education, and believes tax breaks should not favor affluent families at the expense of those with modest means.

Supports accessible higher education for Montana students through affordable tuition, financial aid, and quality assurance at public institutions, advocating investment in a robust education system from preschool to university for a promising future.

Opposes HB 129, viewing it as a tax break for wealthy Montanans under the guise of aligning state and federal education savings account laws, reducing taxable income for private school tuition.

Opposes House Bill 129 (HB129); views it as a tax break for wealthy Montanans that reduces taxable income for private school tuition.

Supports local districts and sports associations creating science-based policies for all students, including transgender, to prevent bullying and discrimination, citing Missoula County Public Schools and NCAA's fair transgender student accommodation in athletics.

Supports local districts and sports associations in creating science-based policies for all students, including transgender students, to prevent bullying and discrimination.

- Opposes subsidizing private school tuition with tax money, supports strengthening Montana's public education, and believes tax breaks should not favor affluent families at the expense of those with modest means.
- Supports accessible higher education for Montana students through affordable tuition, financial aid, and quality assurance at public institutions, advocating investment in a robust education system from preschool to university for a promising future.
- Opposes House Bill 129 (HB129); views it as a tax break for wealthy Montanans that reduces taxable income for private school tuition.
- Supports local districts and sports associations in creating science-based policies for all students, including transgender students, to prevent bullying and discrimination.

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