As I’ve been knocking doors in my district I keep hearing the same thing from almost every household. The need to push back against years of rising property taxes. I’ve spoken to people in my district that are retired and living off of fixed incomes, and as their property taxes rise they find it harder and harder to stay and live out their lives in the city that they spent years helping to build and grow. Unfortunately, when they finally are forced to consider the thought of leaving Stamford, they find that their property values have fallen so low that they then can’t afford to leave. 



Meanwhile, we continue to give and extend tax breaks and abatements to land developers to build luxury apartments downtown. How can we justify continuing to increase the taxes of long time residents of the city while giving out tax breaks to land developers? At best this is irresponsible, at worst inexcusable. 



There needs to be bi-partisan pressure in local government to push back against cutting deals with multi-million dollar land developers that favor the developers, and leave citizens wondering exactly where all their property taxes are going. 

I’m proud to be running with the other 10 candidates from Reform Stamford to take a stand against irresponsible development practices.

I was out canvassing up near the CT/NY border when a gentleman answered the door, and upon seeing that I was a political candidate immediately said “You have my vote! Now, who are you and what’s your message?”. Turns out, no one had ever knocked on his door to ask for his vote before. It’s a conversation that I’ve had plenty of times over since I started going out to meet voters and I think that says a lot. 

For as long as I can remember growing up here, I’ve always heard rumors of North Stamford separating from the rest of Stamford. I think the reason for this is that the people in District 19 feel like their voices aren’t being heard, and haven’t been for a long time. I think candidates in this district are going to need to make sure that reaching out and listening to what the people in their district are saying is going to have to be a priority in order to be elected in this district. I also believe that Board of Representative members holding office in the northern districts need to be more vocal. If people in my district see themselves having strong representation in city government at large then we’ll have a district fully engaged, and a city that can work more efficiently together.

There’s no denying it, I’m young, new, and fairly unique. I think that’s a good thing. I’ve said at many doors I feel like what we’re witnessing now is local government atrophied. A lot of people simply don’t feel like they have a voice in this city, and many don't know what to do to get involved. I think the fact that we are starting to see fresh young blood running for local office, in myself and others, across the city this election cycle, is a great sign. It gives me hope for our city that so many passionate people are stepping up to take on the challenge of representing their districts. New people coming in with fresh energy isn't just a great way to keep Stamford strong now, it's the only way to make Stamford's future strong as well.