Priorities

Pennsylvania has lost more than 10,000 farms in the past decade. Bankruptcies went up 160% last year alone.

Not because farmers stopped working hard. Fertilizer’s up. Fuel prices’s up. John Deere decided farmers couldn’t even fix their own tractors without calling a dealer first and paying a fee.

That 150-acre dairy farm your neighbor’s been running his whole life is getting squeezed out. Another building sits empty. Another family loses what they spent generations building.

Glenn Thompson has chaired the House Agriculture Committee for the past seventeen years. Calls himself a descendant of dairy farmers. Since Thompson took the Agriculture chair in 2023, Pennsylvania’s been the only major dairy state where farm closures have gone up every single year. On his watch, the Farm Bill gave family farms around twelve hundred dollars a year in subsidy payments while the top one percent walked away with nearly a hundred times more. That’s his record.

I grew up in Bellefonte. I left to find work because the opportunity wasn’t here and came back to find that for most families in this district, nothing has changed. That’s the reason for this campaign.

The agenda in Congress: pass the Agricultural Right to Repair Act. Protect crop insurance. Bring tariff decisions back to Congress, because right now, farmers are paying for trade wars they had no vote in.

Washington’s had seventeen years to get this right. Time for someone who will.

On May 17, 2026 Bradford Regional Medical Center closed its doors for good.

No emergency room. No inpatient care. No place to go if your heart stops, if you’re in a car accident, if you’re about to have a baby. The closest emergency room is now across the state line in New York — half an hour away on a good day.

The hospital’s own CEO told you why. ‘Federal funding cuts,’ he said. Not mismanagement. Not bad luck. Federal funding cuts.

McKean County Commissioner Marty Wilder said it plainly: ‘Rural communities are under assault. Once Medicaid cutbacks kick in, it’s going to become real for a lot of people in a lot of towns.’

He’s right. And Glenn Thompson voted for those Medicaid cutbacks. He voted against the healthcare tax credits that help rural hospitals keep their doors open. He voted to shift billions in costs onto states that can’t absorb them.

Then he said nothing. Not a word about Bradford. Not a press release. Not a town hall. Nothing.

Northwestern Pennsylvania already has an eight-county wide maternity care desert. Women in our district have to drive hours to give birth. And our congressman’s response is silence.

I grew up in rural PA and when I came back here, I knew I wasn’t going to be silent about what’s happening to this community.

Glenn Thompson had sixteen years to fight for rural healthcare in this district. Bradford Regional Medical Center closed on his watch.

It’s time for a change.

Healthcare shouldn’t be a luxury. But that’s exactly what Glenn Thompson made it for thousands of his own neighbors.

For the past four years, enhanced tax credits through Pennsylvania’s health insurance marketplace — Pennie — helped 500,000 Pennsylvanians afford coverage. In our district alone, those credits kept thousands of families insured who couldn’t have managed otherwise.

Congress had a chance to extend those credits. The vote was 230 to 196. Seventeen Republicans crossed the aisle and voted yes. Even Republicans from other parts of Pennsylvania voted yes. Glenn Thompson voted no.

The result? Premiums doubled overnight.

In Cameron County, premiums jumped 160% — $229 more every single month. In Forest County, 129% — $184 more every month. In Warren County, 139% — $168 more every month. Real money, for families already stretched thin.

Thousands of people in this district lost their health coverage. One in four Pennie enrollees in PA-15 simply couldn’t afford it anymore and walked away.

Glenn Thompson had one job — protect the people of this district. He chose differently.

I will make the right decision.

I want to help the rural communities of the 15th District thrive and grow. 

Without job opportunities, younger residents are leaving their hometowns. This leaves an older population that tends to need more services, but the economic base is insufficient to support those services. While some may say the residents can just move, that ignores their deeply rooted connection to their community. Maintaining this connection and pride in place requires extensive work.

One of the areas on which  I will spend significant time in is developing legislation to encourage small business development, including farms, commercial businesses, health care facilities, small manufacturing operations, local banks, and more.

I left Rural Pennsylvania because I know why young people feel the need to leave — because opportunity feels like it exists somewhere else. And I know what it feels like to come back and find that not much has changed.

That’s the quiet crisis nobody in Washington talks about. Young people leave rural parts of the US for jobs. That leaves an older population that needs more services — healthcare, transportation, housing — but a shrinking tax base that can’t pay for them. And when someone suggests the solution is for everyone to just move away, they’ve never stood in a town where their grandparents are buried, where their kids went to school, where their neighbors have known them their whole lives.

This district doesn’t need to be abandoned. It needs investment.

When I get to Washington, one of my top priorities will be legislation that makes it easier to start and grow a business right here — small manufacturers, farms, local banks, healthcare facilities, and the small commercial businesses that are the backbone of every town in this district. Small business incubators that have already worked in Centre and Clearfield counties can be a model for the entire district.

Glenn Thompson has represented this district for sixteen years. In that time, young people kept leaving and rural economies kept shrinking. Good intentions aren’t enough. It’s time for someone who came back because he believes this place is worth fighting for.

I do. 

As a gun owner and a veteran; I believe in the Second Amendment — full stop. Like the nearly one million Pennsylvania hunters and gun collectors, firearms are part of my life and my family’s way of life. (Ask me about my Colt Woodsman some time)

I also believe in responsibility, a value shared by the vast majority of gun owners. That’s why I support making sure background checks work the way they’re supposed to : keeping guns out of the hands of criminals and out of the hands of people who pose a danger to themselves and others, while never punishing law-abiding citizens for doing things right.

While Glenn Thompson votes the NRA line. I am a gun owner who believes in common sense gun laws.

Our veterans risked their lives to defend our freedom. While we can never offer enough thanks for that sacrifice, our current system has somehow found a way to offer far less. Today, hundreds of veterans in Pennsylvania and thousands more across the country are homeless; millions face the burden of opioid addiction, dying at twice the national rate from it. Worse still, access to medical care is blocked by bureaucratic hurdles that serve only to enrich private insurers on the backs of those who served. Enough is enough,  the broken promises must end. As a Veteran myself, I will push back against VA cuts that delay treatment. I will keep private equity from standing between veterans and their care and not let corporations turn a profit by denying veterans care.

America’s children are its future. Giving that future every opportunity to succeed requires a strong public education system—from elementary school through college. That starts with investing in educators and making sure talented, highly qualified people are encouraged to enter and remain in the teaching profession.

Thousands of schools across Pennsylvania and the nation face shortages of qualified STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) teachers. Glenn Thompson voted to cut federal grants designed to attract expert teachers to rural schools. While he claims to support education, his record shows a willingness to hollow out that support in the name of saving a few dollars.

Our communities deserve better. Expanding grants to attract and retain top teaching talent in Pennsylvania must be a priority. So must protecting the federal funding that supports critical research at Penn State and ensuring that our children have every advantage possible as they grow, learn, and prepare for the future.

A strong education system is not an expense to be minimized. It is an investment in Pennsylvania’s children, its workforce, and the future of its communities.

Congress’s job should be to make everyone’s lives better, but their actions only make their wealthy donors’ lives and their own bank accounts better. I supports a ban on members of congress trading stocks, closing the revolving door between congressman and lobbyist, and overturning Citizen’s United. 

Most people in this district work hard, play by the rules, and trust that their representatives  are doing the same. Too often, that trust is broken.

Here’s how Washington really works. Members of Congress get access to information the rest of us don’t have — then trade stocks based on it. When they finish their terms, nearly half of them cash in and become high-paid lobbyists, their salaries jumping over 1,000 percent overnight. And thanks to Citizens United, corporations and billionaires pour unlimited dark money into campaigns to make sure the people they want get elected and stay elected.

The result is a Congress that works for its donors, not for you.

This isn’t a partisan issue, it’s a corruption issue. That’s why Ray Bilger supports a ban on congressional stock trading, legislation already introduced by Republican Congressman Chip Roy of Texas. I will ban the revolving door between Congress and K Street and will support overturning Citizens United.

I will also practice what I preach and support a constitutional amendment limiting House members to six terms — twelve years. Glenn Thompson is seeking his tenth term in 2026. He has been in Congress for seventeen years. I will limit these stays to six terms.

It’s time for a Congress that works for the people of this district — not one that works for itself

Right now, Pennsylvania is in the middle of a data center boom. Trillion-dollar tech corporations are moving into rural communities like ours, promising jobs and tax revenue while consuming millions of gallons of water from local aquifers every single year. They are driving electricity prices higher for every family on the grid, with capacity prices in our region already jumping 860% in a single year. In return, these massive facilities create roughly 30 to 50 permanent jobs per site.

What frustrates me most is the contradiction at the heart of this development. These companies want to build the backbone of the internet right here in Central Pennsylvania, yet 276,000 Pennsylvania households still cannot get reliable broadband internet. Families in PA-15 are getting the bill for someone else’s server farm while they cannot stream a video reliably at home. Data centers can be good for PA-15, Ray says, but only if we set the rules. Right now, nobody in Washington is setting those rules on our behalf. It is absurd that companies building the future of AI want to operate in communities that cannot even get a reliable signal. That ends when I go to Congress.

Glenn Thompson has chaired the House Agriculture Committee, which holds jurisdiction over rural broadband and USDA water programs, for years. On this issue, his record is absolute silence. He has offered no legislation, held no hearings, and provided nothing to protect local residents. Our communities are not a sacrifice zone for big tech.

I have spent 35 years working in and around the very infrastructure these companies are building, serving from the Air Force to the NSA, where I was the Technical Director for Cyber Analysis. I know what these facilities need, and know what they owe the communities they move into. If elected, I will fight for five enforceable federal priorities: broadband co-investment as a condition of federal tax benefits, mandatory Community Benefit Agreements, water transparency requirements, strict clean air standards for backup generators, and ratepayer protection to shield families from data center demand.

I am a leader who knows how to fix things. Send me to Washington to fix this.

Families are choosing between groceries and rent. Kids are going to school hungry.
Glenn Thompson looked his constituents in the eye and promised — in his own words —
‘absolutely no reductions in nutritional benefits’. Then he went to Washington and voted to take food off the tables of nearly 7,000 of his own constituents.
I will not do that. When I make a promise to the people of this district, I keep it.
SNAP is not a handout. It’s $6 a day to feed your family. It’s what keeps a laid-off mill worker fed while he looks for his next job. It’s what a grandmother uses to make sure her grandkids don’t go hungry. It’s what a veteran uses while he gets back on his feet.
Glenn Thompson voted to cut it. He voted to make Pennsylvania pay for it. And when Governor Shapiro called him out, he blamed everyone else.
Central Pennsylvania deserves a congressman who fights for the people in this district — not one who makes promises he doesn’t keep.

A lifetime spent working alongside the security and intelligence professionals who keep this country safe brings a clear understanding of what it means to follow the rules—and what it costs when those in authority do not.

But enforcement alone is not an immigration policy. America’s immigration system is broken, and both parties bear responsibility. The result is chaos—for immigrants caught in the system, for communities trying to absorb it, and for law enforcement officers asked to manage it without clear rules.

Fixing that system means securing the border, creating workable legal pathways, and clearing the backlogs that leave people in limbo for years. It also means applying a single standard of accountability to everyone.

That standard must apply to ICE and CBP agents as well. Officers doing their jobs should wear identifiable uniforms and badge numbers and comply with established use-of-force policies. No masks. No unmarked uniforms. No exceptions. When those standards are violated, independent review panels—not internal chains of command—should determine the consequences. When a U.S. citizen or immigrant dies during an enforcement action, there must be an immediate independent investigation, with charges brought where warranted.

The rule of law is not optional. The Constitution does not have a carve-out for immigration enforcement. Protecting that principle—and ensuring that those who enforce the law are accountable to it—is essential to preserving the rights and security of everyone in this country.

I believe that decisions about pregnancy, family, and reproductive healthcare are among the most personal a person can make — and that the government has no business making them.
I support the right of every Pennsylvanian to access reproductive healthcare, including abortion, without political interference. I believe those decisions belong to a woman, her family, and her doctor — not to Congress.
Northwestern Pennsylvania already has an eight-county wide maternity care desert. Women in this district are already driving hours to give birth. Rural hospitals are closing. Republican cuts to Medicaid are accelerating the collapse of rural healthcare. And Glenn Thompson has voted, repeatedly, to restrict reproductive healthcare access while doing nothing to address the healthcare desert his constituents live in.
I support codifying the right to abortion into federal law and I support ensuring that emergency reproductive care is available everywhere — including in rural Pennsylvania. I will continue to support protecting access to contraception and believe that no woman should be forced to carry a pregnancy that threatens her life because her congressman voted to tie her doctor’s hands.

The Government should trust women with the care they know they need. I know I do.

I have spent decades in institutions where words have consequences and where calling something what it is — even when it’s uncomfortable — is the foundation of sound policy. Hamas is a terrorist organization designated as such by the United States, the European Union, and other allies. Its 1988 founding charter calls for the destruction of Israel — a document Hamas has never rescinded and whose goals senior Hamas officials have repeatedly reaffirmed.
The October 7, 2023 attacks — which killed approximately 1,200 people, including 44 Americans, and took 253 hostages — were an act of terrorism that I unequivocally condemn. Israel has the right to defend itself.
And yet. The Israeli military’s conduct in Gaza has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians, the majority of them civilians. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have formally concluded these actions constitute genocide. The International Court of Justice has found a plausible risk of genocide and issued binding provisional measures. The United Nations Human Rights Council’s own Commission of Inquiry reached the same conclusion in September 2025. I will not look away from what the world’s leading human rights institutions have documented.
A ceasefire took effect in October 2025 and all hostages have been returned. But the ceasefire is not peace. More than 700 Palestinians have been killed since it began. Israel now controls 70% of Gaza’s territory. Nearly 2.1 million people remain displaced. 77% of Gaza’s population faces acute food insecurity. This is not an end to the conflict — it is a pause in it, with the underlying conditions unresolved.
America has leverage — and a moral obligation to use it. Military aid must be conditioned on compliance with the laws of war and the terms of the ceasefire. I support the Ceasefire Compliance Act.
America can be a true ally to Israel and a champion of Palestinian rights at the same time.

I will fight for both.

After decades of service in the defense sector, I know the cost of foreign wars. I also know the importance of careful strategic planning before deploying US forces abroad, and I am committed to only using military action when necessary to defend America, and avoiding unnecessary, counter-productive foreign wars that have no clear objective or strategy.

Trump’s war in Iran clearly fails to meet each of these criteria. It was entered into without a clear goal, not in response to a direct threat to the US, without proper planning, preparation, or coordination with our allies.

As a result, I would vote to support a War Powers Resolution to reign in Trump’s war in Iran. This would put a stop to losing precious American lives in this senseless and counter-productive war and restore Congress’s Constitutional authority to declare war.