Campaign Issues

Troy is a relentless advocate for middle-class households and families. As your District 17 State Representative, she will deliver reliable and sensible leadership. She will fight for a more stable workforce, a women's right to private reproductive medical care, fully funded public education that includes preschool for 4 yr olds, and curricular standards governed by the Ohio Department of Education and professional educators.

“Despite Lawmakers trying to control content in classrooms, majority of parents trust their kids teachers, new survey shows” Laura Hancock, cleveland.com

An Economy that Works for All

For decades, Ohio has fallen behind the nation regarding income growth and job opportunities. Columbus repeatedly responds to this hard truth by instituting legislation that tries to weaken unions and diminish the earnings of middle-class households while increasing the wealth of large corporations and Ohio's top earners.

Ohio Deserves Better

As your district 17 State Representative, Troy will work with others in Columbus to build a logical and fair economic framework that will provide stability and opportunity to the middle class, small businesses, and high earners:

The middle-class tax relief balances inflation's impact on the cost of living and the stability of households and families
Support for small businesses through increased availability of financial resources and a reduction of barriers to economic growth and stability
Increased protections for workers, from collective bargaining guarantees to overtime reform and wage protection

A Government That Protects Freedom

Every Ohioan deserves the right to personal autonomy and to determine their life's course without the intrusive and overbearing arm of government getting in the way. A central aspect of that autonomy is a woman's right to choose whether and under what circumstances to have or not have children and to keep one's medical care private. District 17's current representative sponsored and voted to give himself and the Ohio legislature a chair at your kitchen table and doctor's office.

When a politician's personal views dictate how a doctor cares for her patients, that patient's health, life, and family are at risk.

House Bill 258 forces every pregnant woman, teen, and girl who discovers her pregnancy at a time when a "heartbeat" can be heard (as early as 4 weeks post conception) to carry that pregnancy to full term and give birth. Alarmingly, this is true even if she is ten years old, even if that pregnancy resulted from rape, and even if that rape is classified as incest.

Troy will not be silent. She will fight to make Ohio a place where it is safe to be a little girl, a teenage girl, and a woman.

Troy will not stand by and allow these anti-freedom viewpoints to take further hold in our state. As your State Representative, Troy will fight and vote to protect your freedom to make personal decisions with your family, doctors, and your own trusted advisors.

A Public Safety Plan That Reduces Gun Violence

Troy will not stand by while our current representatives continue to lead Ohio further down the deadly path that is doing irreparable harm to our children, schools, and communities. More guns with fewer protections and regulations are not the answer law enforcement, educators, or business owners want. These policies, designed to make gun and ammunition makers richer, do nothing to make our families, children, schools, and communities safer.

As State Representative, Troy pledges to support sensible gun safety measures like the following:

Require that every gun owner receives proper gun and ammunition handling and safe storage training, and obtains a permit to carry a firearm in public
Expand background checks to cover all transfers and sales of firearms in Ohio
Pass a red flag law that empowers family members and law enforcement to temporarily limit a person's access to guns or weapons if they are a danger to themselves or others.
Ban the possession and sale of weapons of war like the AR-15, which are known to contribute to a would-be mass shooter's event planning and execution.

Top-Notch Education From Pre-School to Employment

Two decades ago, Ohio had one of the nation's highest-performing public school systems. As of today, we've fallen to 31st in the country. At a time when post-secondary education degrees and training are critical for new entrants to the workforce, Ohio has become one of the least affordable states in the nation for public two-year and four-year colleges. Career training and apprenticeships remain underfunded throughout the state for those who choose a path that does not necessarily include two or 4-year college. Troy supports a comprehensive plan to strengthen public education in Ohio so that our children and the next generation of workers are ready to live a life that includes stability and will bring Ohio forward.

Troy's plan for education includes the following:

Passing a complete and equitable funding plan for K-12 public education, so every child gets the education they deserve;
Enacting universal preschool for 4-year-olds, so our children get the right start they need to succeed;
Expanding the Ohio college opportunity grant, so Ohio's college students don't have to face the burden of excessive student debt to get the education they want and deserve;
Fully funding apprenticeship programs and vocational training so more workers can enter or re-enter the workforce with the skills they need; and
Keeping all curriculum decisions in the hands of the Ohio Department of Education and professional educators, not extremist ideologues.